Here's the thing. I have been friends with this guy since he became my next door neighbor and a classmate in 1996. My family moved away but we stayed close. He knows me better than anyone and vice versa. Last year he flew down from Washington to visit me for the weekend. We stayed up all night talking about anything and everything and when I fell asleep he would watch me for a bit. He even wrote me letters after our long talks telling me how being with me brought back the feelings he had for me and that he loved me. Even though he told me these things I didn't do anything because I had recently gone through a break up and I didn't feel that the time was right.
After he got back we talked just about everyday and still did until recently. I wrote him a letter telling him that I loved him too because I couldn't get in contact with him. When I was able to talk to him he said he had no reception because he had gone to a conference where his phone had no reception. He told me that he would call me later that night but he didn't. I found out later from my cousin that he had a girlfriend, someone he just recently started seeing and that he didn't tell me because he didn't want to hurt me.
He thinks the world of her and he's happy, which is something that I want for him, happiness. I even told him I was happy for him and wished them the best, even though I felt like crying. Before we told each other our true feelings, him having a girlfriend didn't bother me. Now with him having said what he did to me but now having a girlfriend has really hurt me and I know he knows this. I love him but I'm not going to tell him to leave this girl who he feels is the love of his life. What should I do?
