Is it normal for cancer women—

Good evening everyone, I was wondering if it was a cancer thing to always dwell in the past. I have a cancer female friend who i've known for years and she use to like me and we use to fool around but nothing more than that, at least i didnt want it on my part. She has confessed to me a couple of times that she has feelings for me but i dont feel the same way, i really value the friendship but at the same time, i dont want her feelings to be hurt.

Communicating with her is difficult because she is extremely emotional and constantly brings up the past when we use to mess around, she confuses that for me having had feelings but i didnt. As a leo, im a generous man, a gentleman, i love to assist people in anyway possible and just look to have a good time, but i notice she always tries to have me to "boyfriend" things for her then she gets caught up in her feelings then i have to sort of stay away from her.

So my question is, is it normal for cancers to live in the past?

It's normal for Cancers to hang on to old feelings far longer than we should.
Your first mistake was "fool around" with someone whom you were not into.
She's clearly into you and sees a future with you.
The only way for her to get over it is for you to not be around her.

You only recourse at this point, is to put distance between you.

we live in the past

Rumination is a strong Cancerian trait. The past remains with us daily.

In having heard the stories of my cancer guy's past and what's made him who he is today, this is what I think:

Cancers never let go of the past because, as I said, that's what helps them maintain the person they want to be, or better yet, who they don't want to be. Each hurt and wrong is something they want desperately to avoid experiencing again, and in order to do that, they have to remember it. Because if they ever forgot it, they'd be susceptible going through it again.