i always end up in situations like this. so a very good friend of mine, steve, has a huge crush on this girl (...no. it's not me.=_= not this time at least.). he's really sweet, great guy, but he's never spoken to her, and she seems like a really nice girl, but in the wrong crowd. she hangs with the beautiful people. and he's, well, he's a dork, like me. plays video games all day, when he's not playing video games he's obsessing in the gym. anyways, he's really sensitive to this type of thing and shy and would totally kill me if he knew i was writing this adn posting it. ok, here's the crux: he's very idealistic, almost want to use teh word 'innocent', kind of person makes you feel dirty standing next to them, squeeky clean, and she's, like i said, a popular. how can i put this... it's very important to him that his girlfriend not have... previous experience? and he has no clue about women in that regard, but there's no way in hell she's not, compared to him at the very least, fairly well-travelled. i mean, she seems nice and it looks like they'd get along really well if he ever actually talked to her and if she actually noticed/liked him. it's not that he doesn't have a chance, but i don't want to see him hurt. i haven't said anything, hell, i can't explain what it is exactly that's bothering me so much about it here even. i don't want to say anything. but i've chased waterfalls too many times before, i know too well the pain, yadda yadda yadda, and how unneccesary it is to go through. should i say something? i don't want to insult him/piss him off and lose him as a friend, mainly becuase i semi-know the girl, better than he does relatively, and he always thinks becuase he wants something, every one else must want the same thing. very competitive. so i don't want him thinking that i'm trying to talk him out of it becuase i'm giong to go after her myself. i don't have many friends, and i cling to the ones i have like barnacles, so i don't want to scare him off. anybody have any suggestions? ideas? previous experience? good or bad ideas, i'm just taking anything i can get at this point. i really feel like i *should* talk to him, becuase he's already been at this for a while, i mean, yes, if i totally leave him alone he should... ought to...eventually work his way through this, but i'm nosey and don't want to see him hurt. maybe i shouldn't say anything and just be surprised like he is when he figures it out/gives up. if. when. i dunno.