BC, Your situation of you being supportive reminds of this DBing situation I'm linking below. I think that as long as she responds favorably to your "friendship", keep on doing it. Just think of her as a good friend, you know what they say that "friendship" that leads to love is the best kind. I know this is working backwards, but at the moment it might be the best.
Read this link if you haven't already read it before.
