#this is for the following wip by the way

Alittle question for writers (or anyone who wants to share their opinion, really!)

I’m working on a character who has this really good friend she grew close to in boarding school, and even 20 odd years later they’re still close friends. (Despite living in different countries now.)

I originally planned for them to have unacknowledged feelings for each other. It would make sense in the way that they’re both women, and they would’ve met in the 1930s/‘40s – only for the story to take place in the '50s or '60s. Plenty of reason to suppress those feelings, or at least try to ignore them.

But I wonder: how likely would it be for 2 people to not act on/confess their (mildly noticeable) mutual attraction to each other over a span of so many years? They don’t see each other much more than twice a year after boarding school (though they do call a lot), so not a lot of opportunity to start something, but I’m still not sure it’s reasonable to write their relationship as it is.