Expressing interest in someone with a significant other?

First let me say I want both genders' (and all sexualities) opinions, and opinions on both the giving and receiving end. How would you feel about doing it, and how would you feel if it happened to you?





Suppose you've met and taken a liking to someone, and maybe even done some subtle flirting. You soon find out that this person already has a significant other, yet you continue to have growing feelings for that person beyond normal friendship. What is, in your opinion, the proper etiquette for this situation? You you sit quietly and never speak a word of it, and hope you get over your crush? Do you lie in wait until the object of your affection's relationship starts to fall apart? Do you openly express how you're feeling, regardless of what might happen between the two of you? Or do you have some other interesting way of dealing with the situation?





Be thorough in your answers as much as you can!Expressing interest in someone with a significant other?
If you only lust for the person for your own selfish needs then you tell the person. If you actually love the person and they are not in a 'bad' relationship you step aside and are ONLY friends. If the relationship fails you then step in and make your intentions known in your own way.


By breaking up their relationship, even as hard as it is for you to not be with this person, you only really care about yourself and it says a lot about the person you want. If they would break up with someone for you!! Then why wouldn't they break up with you when the next person comes along!!?? Best of luck.Expressing interest in someone with a significant other?
Personally, I wouldn't tell the person about my feelings towards him. I also wouldn't sit around waiting to see if his current relationship ends so that I can start going out with him. The last thing you want is to be someone's rebound. Unfortunately, you can't control how you feel. You can continue hanging out with him knowing that it can't be more than a friendship or stop hanging out with him because your feelings are getting in the way of your friendship.