In my single days (my husband was then my boyfriend), I had a jokey crush on a neighbour and my friend and I used to joke about it. There was nothing to it - I thought he was good looking and we used to run into each other at work and social events. She then met up with him by chance one time when I was not there and decided to tell him (in great detail) about my "crush". I am not sure why she did it and she admitted that she would be incredibly annoyed if I did it to her.
Afterwards, she told me what she had done and I was absolutely mortified. I find things like this embarrassing at the best of times and struggled to laugh it off, but since then she and I have continued to be friends and see one another socially (although things have not really been the same as I made it quite clear at the time that she had upset me). I haven't seen him since and have been dreading meeting up with him as I am sure he now thinks I have a huge crush on him (my friend said that he took it quite seriously). He is married too. I have just found out that he has joined a sports club where my husband is a member and it looks like I am now going to have to see him socially again.
I know I should move on but I find stuff like this so cringe-worthy and can't seem to get over what my friend has done. Writing it all out it looks pathetic! Please tell me to pull myself together and get over it - I am hoping that once our first meeting is out of the way it will seem a lot less embarrassing!