help!!! i think i am falling in love with my best friend!!!

i'm quickly becoming best friends with this girl

we've gone on a few friend dates already and have many more planned. i feel like i have a bad crush on her. everything she does makes me smile, just chatting over text with her makes me smile, being around her feels so free and joyous.

we send each other the cute little "this is us" posts over instagram, too. the your month your [insert thing] stuff and posts that are like "send this to someone you want to do [insert thing] with".

we've already said i love you as friends. it's only been a few weeks being friends, too -- but to be honest, i'm a very affectionate person and i express my affections without fear of rejection.

and she cares a lot about me. i've been going through a rough time recently, back into a funk of depression and she's the only person who has reached out and asked me if i was okay. her messages are so endearing and so kind. she tells me i've made her life so much better just by being in it, and that she loves me too.

am i mistaking platonic feelings for romantic?

I wouldn’t know exactly because I don’t know you irl but I would say that if the feeling that you have a crush on her isnt going away then you probably do like her. I had the same with my best friend that I had known for years and were dating now.

If you get the courage to talk to her about it then you should tell her how you feel about it, I’m not that good at advice, sorry.

Sometimes it's quite easy to mistake platonic and romantic feelings. The best piece of advice I could give you is to compare what you feel to any possible crushes you've had in the past. In case you haven't had any, I'd adivse you to let it be for maybe two more weeks, and if it's not clear then, it's quite possibly romantic.