I have started developing feelings for a friend of mine that I have known for 7 years now. When I first met her she was coming out of a relationship that had lasted awhile, and told her how I felt back, but she wasn't ready at that point. We have since become the best of friends, both of us dating others on and off, but over the past year we have been spending significant time together, to the point where others jokingly refer to her as "the wife". The feelings that I had in the beginning, have resurfaced, only stronger now. I don't know how she feels, there have been no romantic "slip-ups" and am afraid to risk our friendship if she doesn't feel the same way - I enjoy our friendship and don't want to do anything to damage it. On the flip side, I feel that I'm being dishonest with her by not sharing how I feel.
What do I do? How do I approach telling her?
