...hearing women I had an unspoken interest in say stuff like this would piss me off... then I realized a number of my female friends had been planning FOR YEARS the perfect opportunity to jump my bones and... there was just no way I could see us shifting from a platonic to a sexual relationship.

Sucks to be on the receiving end of unrequited love/lust, it really does... but experiencing the situation from both angles really granted me some insight.