How would you sum up your past failed relationships?

Selfish, on my part.

This girl was my neighbor, I was single -- we met at a bus stop right outside my apartment after I crashed my car. She had a boyfriend at the time -- but he lived a ways off. We became closer and closer, boyfriend didn't like it. Finally her boyfriend came to visit her, it was a disaster, he broke up with her and I slept with her the same night they broke up.

Long story short, she became pretty obsessive. Wanting to hang out every night since she lived right above me. But I couldnt complain. She cooked for me, massaged me, fed me icecream for crying out loud.

I didn't want to be her boyfriend even though she was, to me, extremely beautiful. Finally one day, asked for us to be exclusive. I said no, and she cried. She cried a lot. I gave in, and went into the relationship.

Finally, I was fed up with work and I wanted to do other things like work on art and etc. I told her I'm going to Thailand (long story, sorta), and she wanted to still keep the title of girlfriend even though I told her it wouldn't last. I said my goodbyes, went to Thailand. Got sucked into the crazy life there (I was there for 2 months) and met a lot of women.

She kept texting me about how she wanted to be with me forever, I finally erupted. I told her it will never work, that I was seeing other women and told her to move on. I know she cried and hated me at that moment.

Afterwards, I came back to the U.S. I kept thinking about it and felt horrible and sent her an email (deleted her number at this point) that I'm sorry for how I acted and etc. She forgave me and we went our seperate ways.

I keep thinking about all the good times we did actually have. How much we laughed and etc. But I knew very deep down inside I didn't want what she wanted. I just played the part for the while because I thought she was gorgeous.

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