Maybe a mod should move this to the broken hearts forum I'm not really sure...
I'm pretty sure that there is nothing that I can do at this point but I just really needed to tell my problems to someone. Basically I recently got involved in my first romantic relationship. The girl is absolutely incredible she is drop dead gorgeous she is fun and intelligent and we want the same things in life. I love her dearly. When we got involved she was already in a long distance relationship and wasn't sure what she wanted to do. I know we shouldn't have started things but I wanted to be with her and to become her boyfriend and so I did anyway. The first weeks were great and I've never been so happy in my life. Then she started to withdraw from me and distanced herself. She says it was to protect me but all it did was keep her from getting closer and ruin my chances of winning her heart. She went to see him and decided that she wants to be with him and now they are moving in together in two months. I was so upset by the situation I kept needing to talk to her and I ended up driving her away by being too clingy. The thing is she never said anything or gave me a chance to change. She just moved on but kept letting me hold her and be there for her. It's only been two months but she's shared so many personal things with me and I can't stand that I lost the chance of a future with her. I know if she had said something I could have improved and things could have worked. I don't know I just feel really hopeless right now.
I know you're thinking this is just because it's my first relationship and partially you're right but you don't know this girl. She is objectively the most beautiful girl at my university, she is funny and smart, when she was thinking of leaving to be with me she was the most affectionate and nurturing person I've ever met and we both have the same values and desires. We even like a lot of the same things and get along really well. I just ruined things by being to anxious because I was afraid to lose her. She has downsides that I acknowledge. She is very concerned with how people see her, she uses people all the time without even realizing that she's doing it and she has problems with both anorexia and alcohol. Even with those flaws though I still can't stop loving her. She shared her journals with me and showed me a side of her beauty that I don't know if I'll ever be able to recover from. And I feel so stupid writing this because the irony is that my inability to deal with this sort of thing myself is what drove her farther away and made the choice easier for her.