think people sometimes make sense of things as romantic crushes when really it isn’t,” CJ Chasin, the ace researcher, says. It’s common for two close friends to be accused, even jokingly, of being romantically obsessed with each other and in denial about it. They themselves may wonder if their feelings toward each other are romantic. “Why can’t that ‘denial’ go both ways?” continues Chasin. “Maybe you’re just in denial about friend intimacy.”
