I have been battling my feelings for a female best friend for about 3-4 months now. I'm really falling for her fast. But she is married. She does not get along with her husband, they are in a verbally abusive relationship and she really wants out. However, there are a lot of reasons why she wont leave, especially financially and not wanting to do have her gradeschool age kids go through a divorce. She really hates this man, but won't make a move. Last week, we professed that we are best friends and it would seem to me that she is wanting to take our relationship to the next level. She displays all the classic signs that she would like me, all the classic flirting signs and the flirting is progressing each time we see each other. We went out as friends last Saturday night to the movies and we seemed to have a great time together. But we can't talk to each other a lot because her husband might find out and then they would get into a fight. We email each other a lot, we text a lot and we even talk on the phone a lot when he is at work or at his sick mother's home. We email, text and talk for hours on end. She answers my texts very quickly, almost as soon as I text her. She use to tell me where she was going, but today (and in a couple of previous texts) she just simply said that she had to run down the road and will text me back soon. However, she did not text me back, I was the one to initiate the texting. But, as soon as I texted, we were texting away again. Another part of me is scared that our best friend frienship is going to come to an end due to the way she is not initiating the texts like she use to. I sometimes become afraid that she is not into it as much as I am because, like I said, I'm the one who is initiating the texts and she (it seems to me) dismissing me when she says that she will get back to me that she has to run down the road. But, then again, mabey she is trying to buy time away from her husband before he has to sit with his sick mother or before he has to go to work. But, it would really give me a better peace of mind if she would text me back instead of me being the one initiating the texts. Mabey it is overkill on my part. I don't know. I would go out with someone else to see if my feelings for her are genuine and to see if she really likes me because I don't want to wait around and this be a false hope on my part. But, then again, if I went out with someone else, that might ruin my chances with her. I don't know what to think, I'm so confused and I really have no where to turn to for advice. What do you think.... Thanks, Dennis P.