Well, I'm 31, found out I had AS 3 years ago.
I had a girl best friend I met around 2000-2001, we went trough great times and the worst times together (with things going on in both our lives, including me feeling and being misunderstood everywhere).
She always made it clear she loved me, even when she was in a relationship with someone and he would tell her to loose me, she would fight against it and keep me around.
During one of her relationships, her boyfriend was really abusive and after some months, I couldn't handle it anymore, he was hurting her, both mentally and physically and nothing I said or did could help her or make her see it.
So we lost contact in a cataclysmic way.
She recontacted me a few times for casual chats, talking about old times, but then went poof again regularly.
Then, last year, she told me she never wanted to hear from me again, when i tried to tell her about the Aspergers. I hadn't heard from her in 2 years anyway, but kept sending her holiday and birthday greetings.
Now, in september, we did reconnect, that story you can partially find here: http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt115948.html
Anyway, she still loves me and cares about me, thats clear, she also knows I always have and still do, love her very much.
But again, just this weekend, she got another boyfriend all of the sudden.
Goes to show how big the difference is between loving someone and wanting a relationship with them by falling in love.
I hope I didn't screw up and that we can keep rebuilding our relationship.