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Do guys get crushes?

Sure, it might seem like dudes aren't riding that same crazy roller coaster of emotions that we are —but it turns out that they totally ARE. Over on Reddit's AskMen, guys opened up about how they really feel when they have a crush, and it sounds like they turn into piles of mush, too.

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When you have a massive crush on a guy, complete with the butterflies/ that pit in your stomach, sometimes it feels like you can barely hold it together every time they walk by, or just glance in your general direction. But some guys always seem to just play it so cool that it's basically impossible to tell if they feel the same way back. Sure, it might seem like dudes aren't riding that same crazy roller coaster of emotions that we are —but it turns out that they totally ARE. Over on Reddit's AskMen, guys opened up about how they really feel when they have a crush, and it sounds like they turn into piles of mush, too. Basically, we're all a little bit crazy when we're in love. And that's OK.

They feel the same ups and downs.

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1. "The best worst time of your life." — smeezus

2. "Alternates between desire and excitement and pain." — Coidzor

3. "It's a simultaneous love/hate feeling. It's an infatuation of a person where they dominate my thoughts and in most cases leads to daydreaming scenarios with that person. The hate part comes in where I want it to stop... It's such a stubborn thing to get rid of too, but once I do and don't have any other prospective romantic endeavors then I just feel... empty." — Gapinthesidewalk 4. "HORRIBLE. Crushes are simultaneously the best feeling and WORST feeling. They make me feel vulnerable and weak and awful." — emberfly

They can't think of anything else.

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5. "The infatuation is crippling. I think about her so often, sometimes its a constant thought for hours... I've imagined conversations, or situations even where I imagine us ending up together... Just being next to her and doing nothing is thrilling." — Kustav 6. "If you've been listening to a new song, you associate it with her." — BenjaminAsher 7. "I can't get them out of my mind. It's a blessing and a curse." — love_to_sleep_in 8. "Being eager to learn more about her each day. Hearing her voice stand out off a crowd of dozens of people. Noticing that looking into her eyes brightens up your day. Feeling the most let down when she can't make it today." — Sanikbam

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9. "It's an overwhelming feeling of sheer desire... that either makes you fully excited and eager for the future to come or empty and depressed about your crush's absence. It is so polarizing that you can't think of anything else... You want to know everything about her." — Azertherion 10. "I can't get them out of my head. God, this is embarrassing. I imagine my life with them and being so happy. Then I realize we can never be together." — unicornbutts96

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11. "If you're in contact? Every time you do something that makes even a little bit of noise, like turn on the faucet, you find yourself going, 'Did my phone just go off?'" — Toby_O_Notoby 12. "I'll imagine her riding shotgun with me wherever I drive." — colintw24

They get butterflies.

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13. "You get that sort of butterfly feeling in your stomach when you see them." — Lost_in_costco 14. "I feel happy beyond reason! My cheeks get flushed, I feel a hot nervousness in my gut and my breath quickens. I get a smile on my face that is beyond genuine and...beyond that it just feels really, really good." — mitchboucher1994

And overanalyze everything.

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15. "Wondering if you've said anything wrong and if she still likes you or if she saw you were looking at her and thinks you're weird. I mean not that I'm speaking from experience or anything, cough." — java7nerd 16. "I only develop a crush after I've gotten to know a girl, at which point I will inevitably decide it is inappropriate to risk ruining what is a good thing. I then just spend a lot of time being unnecessarily sad about it and exaggerating in my mind what are probably meaningless flirtations and interactions." — SandwicheDynasty

So that's why they try to play it cool.

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17. "I get too in my head and over-analyze everything. When they aren't around, I think about them way too much. I attempt to spend more time with them while trying not to sound desperate, all while trying to work up the nerve to tell them how I feel." — nodnar13 18. "Daydream a lot about her but try hard to act normal and uninterested when am around her so that I don't give it away." — the_real_me_acctt Hannah Orenstein is the assistant features editor at Seventeen.com. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram!

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