Dear Love Guru,
I have fallen in love with my English teacher.
I am 18 years of age.
I am a good student and write well and am the teacher’s pet.
My love for her is very distracting.
I don’t think she returns it.
But maybe she knows.
She is young.
Maybe early 20s.
She looks very pretty and dresses very attractively.
She is a good teacher.
I can sit in her class all day.
I want to tell her about my feelings, but it might be wrong.
I am very confused.
What can I do?
Please tell me.
Santosh
Ans: Santosh, you're not the first and you certainly won't be the last young man enamoured of his teacher.
But you're a teenager, she's a young adult and your teacher to boot!
My advice is to please leave this at what it is -- a college crush. In a few years' time you will look back at this period in your life fondly and smile.
Don't make things awkward by trying to pursue her. You said yourself she's not romantically interested in you. Plus it would be a risk to her job and career.
If you feel like you absolutely must declare your feelings of affection, at the very least I'd recommend you wait till the end of her tenure teaching you; that way you won't have to face her every day in class if things go downhill, which most likely they will.