When you are everyone's cheerleader. You encourage everyone . Always kind. It's because you probably never had that ever.

When you think your not acknowledged. I'm ok with it these days but at very start of my life , late teens , early adults , right up top when I was 29 I felt that way until I lost a lot in my life when I was 30 , lost a lot in the space of 6 months , a break up that ended bad , a friend that died , nervous breakdown , a visit to a pysche ward for 6 weeks , going back into a pysche ward for another week . I was in there 3 times in the one years .
Looking back at it now I'm 44 and now I'm coming back too you if your looking for someone to acknowledge you what happens with that trace of thinking is that you end up in a bog of self pity and that thinking activates more thoughts too make you worse .
You have too be alright with you is were I'm coming at , not everyday but sometimes and appreciate life a bit more .
There's a sane and it says ' if you conquer yourself you conquer the world.
Yourself is from within and the world is the thinking from within , as what I say not everyday but keep on trying .
God likes a trier .
I wasted 15 years trying to figure out life and questioning this and that .
Trying question everything and do you know the answer I came up with , with all of that is that your trying avoid your imperfections.
You be trying to get life fully right and you never will . That's why a God of your own understanding is there in your life , not my understanding but your own understanding

This is completely true. Kinda hook right up with the theory that people find it easier to fix someone else's problems than to deal with there own. Also the whole empathy trend is usually based in projection. The world is a place with broken people trying to save each other maybe someday we can all come together and make it work.

It could be a lot of things. Sometimes they're not interested, other times they are but feel rejected when they come on stronger than they'd like to. Hope things get better.

I am working so hard not to be like that anymore. I stay away from people who can't reciprocate my friendship for them.

I wouldn’t. I’ve always treated ladies nicely, but that’s often been my downfall I think ☹

While what you want is totally understandable and reasonable, anyone who treats you worse than just a friend should have no place in your life.

Because we let them?
Sometimes, you have to be strong enough to say I won't be treated this way and let them go if need be.

Yes ...

I think its because they don’t know themselves how to treat anyone right .They’re usually very miserable and caught in their own whirlwinds ,so its best to move on .

It sounds like a them problem if someone treats you worse than a friend they dont deserve you at all. Cut them out of their life because they dont like you and damn sure doesn't love you which could mean that they are using you. Love yourself more, so much so that you will not take that from anyone. You are worth so much more than that.