I (haven't / hadn't) really thought about that

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A : Do you like me?
  
  B : Yes
  
  A : As friends?
  
  B : Yeah. I mean, I don't know. I (haven't / hadn't) really thought about that.

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I haven't really thought about that.

I didn't think about that before and I don't know now as well. (chances are I don't like you)

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I hadn't really thought about that.

I didn't think about that before, but it's only past that I didn't think. There's a big time difference between past and present by using "hadn't". And, now that I think of it, it could be different from before.(chances are I like you)

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Am I right to think this way? I know it's not perfectly right but I just have a feeling like that.

Which one would you say when you like her.

Haritdeep Singh · Answer

Use of Past perfect tense (hadn't) would imply that her process of thinking started somewhere in past and ended at some other point, that too in the past.

"I haven't thought about it." may imply that the Thinking(verb) process is still impending.

SovereignSun · Answer

The difference between "haven't thought" and "hadn't thought" is that the former speaks about an event that started in the past (probably recently) and is still on-going whereas the latter speaks about an event that ended in the past before a certain other event that happened afterward.

I (haven't / hadn't) really thought about that

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