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{{quote|OK! What is wrong with the two of you?! Seriously! He likes you, and you like him, and you should just be together! Jeez, Louise! Happiness is not THAT difficult!|'''Lily Aldrin''', ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]''}}
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Subtrope of [[Birds of a Feather]]. Compare with [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]] which also has trouble getting together, but for different reasons. May be a driving force behind [[Will They or Won't They?]]. [[Not to Be Confused With]] [[The First Cut Is the Deepest]], a trope also described as "once bitten, twice shy."
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== Anime
* ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'' went through this so long, it almost got annoying. Kaoru was too shy to tell Kenshin how she felt, and Kenshin wasn't sure if he deserved someone like her...
* Rito and Haruna in ''[[To LOVE-Ru]]'' are the very definition of this.
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