Sounds like she's just scared of it not working out and ruining your friendship. And she might view it as her 'responsibility' for it to work and not let that happen.

Better her closest friend that lasts a lifetime than a relationship that turns sour and leaves your friendship awkward to impossible. Your lucky she's honest with you. Besides who doesn't love a puppy (so she does care), sounds like she thinks your just a little needy. Give yourself a couple more years to mature a little more and who knows...

Yo, **** that shit. Just be confident in yourself and stop thinking of yourself as unattractive, and maybe some good shit will happen. The more you beat yourself up about it, less happens.

amazing ^_^

Take it in stride. If you've known this person for 9 years, your friendship isn't obviously something trivial and she possibly knows you better than you know yourself. If you aren't pleased with her summary of you, then do something to change yourself, for the better. If you don't mind her image of you, then simply seek love elsewhere. No need to end relationships just because she was a little too brutal in being honest with you.

A simple no could have done the job

Ouch! FYL OP. I've had friends say that to me before. More than one actually.

heres an idea just stop talking to her completely cut her out of your life that's what i would do.the whole friendzone thing its just an excuse for chicks to be b**ches

OP, here. Soooo.. I'm not a guy. And my friend is bisexual. But I thought it was great that you all thought I was a male, that and (most) of your comments actually made me feel better. For the other comments.. I know I deserved it, but it did suck, especially since I really didn't want to ask, but I thought "why not??".. Yeahhh.. I think I found out why not. ANYWAYS! For starters, we met when we were in middle school, I didn't have those kind of feelings for her back then. They've really just developed over the past few years. I haven't been in love with her for 9 years, that's just how long we've been friends. Okay, so this actually happened over a span of two days. The day I asked her out, she kind of freaked out, but she said it wasn't in a "bad" way. She mentioned that she had thought about a relationship with me in the past, and she was shocked that I was finally asking after so long, BUT that she needed time to think. I assumed that meant no, and I was assuming she would say no from the start. I asked her to just say no if she didn't want to, that I'm fine with it. She didn't answer when I said it, and she waited until the next day to answer.. with the puppy analogy. At first, she just drew "two girls = a girl with a dog" and gave me the drawing. I didn't know what that meant, so then she actually said what she meant it out loud. I was a bit annoyed that she didn't say no, she chose to choose an analogy. Honestly, a no would have been better (and less confusing.) I'm sure she didn't mean it in a bad way, she's not the greatest with words, but it hurt. I felt like it was a double smack in the face. We're still friends and I have no intentions of changing that. Anyhoo, thanks for the sweet comments. Hopefully some day I'll find "The One" and they won't think I'm a puppy. :*

Isn't this a line from parks and rec?

the **** does that even mean? sounds kind of rude, like you're some kind of man child who needs to be taken care of or something. I would find this rather insulting. if you're a puppy... Then she's a bitch. badum tssss. (don't shoot)

What...WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN?!