It’s so great of you to want to help your friend. Most crushes and relationships during the teen years are a great way to learn about how to have relationships, how to figure out who is a good person to be involved with and how to deal with feelings when it doesn’t work out. It can be very upsetting and disappointing when the person you like or love doesn’t return your feelings. You can help by being a good friend, continuing to talk about and do the things you normally do together, and listening to her if she wants to talk about her feelings about this. If you think her sadness is going on for too long (more than several weeks) or she is too sad to do her usual things (go to school, see her friends, eat and sleep normally), please seek help from an adult such as a parent, trusted adult or school guidance counselor.
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