Quote Originally Posted by Serpentine View Post
It is rarely, if ever, used like that. It's more often more like "despite me being great boy/girlfriend material he/she has decided that I am not - well, not for him/her; we will therefore continue to be friends despite me being dissatisfied with this unequal relationship until I can figure out a way to change their mind".
So the problem isn't with the word, it's with the whiny people who use it in an accusatory fashion instead of moving on. (I apologise for this also sounding accusatory. Moving on is harder than P-chem and a history class in the same semester, which may well kill me screw over my shiny new transfer-GPA.)