Secret admirer

A secret admirer is an individual who possesses extreme adoration, fondness or love for another person without disclosing their identity to that person. The admirer may often send gifts or love letters to their crush. In comparison with stalking, a secret admirer is usually benign, although stalkers may consider themselves to be secret admirers. Mostly, the goal of a secret admirer is to woo the object of their affections, and then to reveal their identity, paving the way for a real relationship. The revealing of a secret admiring usually occurs on Valentines Day, "the day of love". Where stalkers try usually to not come in contact, just watching them from afar, secret admirers usually prefer to still be able to talk and hang out with the person in interest.

Many elementary schools and sometimes schools up to secondary schools have children do Valentine's Day projects on Valentine's Day to craft and send "secret admirer" letters to classmates, which may not actually reflect a real "crush" and may be done neutrally or arbitrarily, and, perhaps, if done under duress from the class project requirement, reluctantly.Fact|date=May 2008

See also

* Puppy love