so i've had this "dilemma", i guess you could say, for quite some time. my boyfriend and i have been going out for almost a year now. he is an awesome guy...incredibly sweet, caring, funny, kind, patient, loving...*fill in good boyfriend characteristic here*. you get the idea. and i'm very happy with him. i just don't know if i'm as happy with him as he is with me. i know he's crazy about me...he tells me all the time. he always tells me how much he misses me, how much he loves me, how i'm the most perfect angel that ever came into his life, and how he couldn't live without me. which is adorable. but i don't know if i feel exactly the same. i love him, yes. but i don't know if i'm as IN love with him as he is with me. i love having him in my life, but the "i need you with me every day because i'm so in love with you" feeling has worn off. there's not as much excitement when i go to see him, not as much passion *on my side* when we, y'know, do stuff. it's like he's my boyfriend, he's nice to have, and that's it. i don't get the feeling of permanent sunshine and the birds singing from when i seriously thought i was in love with him. i know that i can't be without him though...i've tried that before and realized it was totally wrong. i just don't know what to do! i feel so bad for telling him that he means as much to me as i do to him, when i'm not really sure that's true. i want to feel the same way as he does, i really do. i just don't know how to achieve that. so i pretend that all his feelings for me are mutual. am i lying to myself? he is incredible and i'm so thankful for him. i just wished i viewed him as the perfect angel that he views me as. ps - to make matters worse, he just asked me for the second time in like two weeks if i had anything i wanted to tell him but havent. ive said no both times. i guess i do want to tell him whats going on, but i dont want to break his poor heart. what do i do? what do i say? im so lost.