How long do your crushes last for?

Eternity.

He found someone...and it kills me. V.V

 

It really depends how strong the crush is. Some guys I just find attractive and like them for a little while, but others I like because of their personality etc. those last a lot longer.

 

It varies alot with me. I've had crushes that lasted for about a week, then I've had one or two that have gone on for about 2 or so years. It's quite unpredictable.

 

My physical crushes last only as long as I'm able to see a person regularly. If I stop seeing them, they're out of my mind.

Emotional crushes are a bit more complicated. I haven't had many, but the few I've had never really came to a definite end, so I can't put an exact duration on them. I think they can best be described as like a Poisson distribution.



They take some time to build up, then peak at some point, then drop off as the possibility of the guy and I being together seems less and less likely. But the funny thing about a Poisson distribution is that, no matter how far off you go to the right, it never reaches zero. Go off to 100 and it will still have some small non-zero value. That's how my few crushes I've had so far have gone; no matter how much time passes, the feelings never really go away. They get less strong with time, but if I'm reminded of the guy, or if I run into him, I can feel that they're still there.

 

Way longer than they should...

Luckily I'm not the obsessive type.

 

longer than I wish...I've gotta stop falling for straight guys

 

Ugh.

I have the same problem. Pretty frustrating. :lol:

 

< 1 week for me.

I typically get crushes on people that I know I have no shot with romantically (because they're straight) but we get along really well as friends. The crushes develop from my desire for that awesome friend closeness to develop into something more, but I know it can't, so I quickly stop all blossoming romantical thoughts and remind myself of reality. I don't wish to be one of those people hung up on someone they can't be involved with and that's just generally speaking. I most definitely don't want to be that pathetic lesbian girl hung up on her straight friend. Therefore, I cut that cord of like-like with haste.

 

I've never had a crush

 

It varies, but way too long since they're usually straight girl crushes. I'd say on average usually at least 6 months though. When I fall for people (more so girls), I fall really hard. At the moment the girl I have a crush on I've liked for over a year. My boyfriend I've only liked for about a week, since, well, I met him like two weeks ago.

 

This is about my first.

It's lasted since I met him about a month ago and counting.

My crush is weird in the sense that I just want to grow old with him and help him with things, and kiss him and hold his hand and shit. I think it's really the first time I've experienced both physical and emotional.

Of course, he's straight, or at least appears to be.

 

mine is still lasting. its already an year

 

You need a 'forever' option on the poll :lol:

 

There's been twice I've fallen so hard for someone that it's taken a year or more to get over them, even after they both hurt me really badly. My most recent crush probably lasted six months or so.

 

I actually had to think about it pretty hard... But I get over them just as quickly as I develop them.

 

Begrudgingly.

 

Let's see..
I have an unhealthily strong crush on this guy I met a year and a half ago. So year and a half there.
Also, I have a huge crush on one guy I met three and a half years ago. So three and a half in his case.
Six years ago I had an enormous crush on a guy I'd just met and it lasted for a year and I thought it was over, but then I saw him a year ago and almost fainted. So six years.
In primary school I had a crush on a guy who was in my class. It went on all through primary and high school. At the end of high school he tragically lost his life. So that was cca. 10 years of crushing (it started before puberty, so I can't know when it was actually a crush). And he's been dead for over 12 years now and when I think of him I still ache and love and feel the same as before. So actually 22 years. wow.

Anyway, I guess my crushes, the strong ones at least, do not end. If Poisson has anything to do there, my graph takes different parameters than the one Owen pasted. Mine doesn't drop anywhere near zero.

Umph.... :help:

 

There's two factors.
How much I see them, and whether I get a new crush. If I see them fairly often they can last a while up until I find a new interest. If I just generally don't see them that much they completely drop out of my mind.
Usually though, maybe a month.