My [18M] friendship [18F] is falling apart, and I don't know what to do

You’re obsessing.

I know. I want to stop thinking about it, but I can't, and I don't know how to make myself.

You’re going to meet a lot of people in this life, and most don’t stick around.

I know, but it's not like I've just met her -- we've been friends a few years now. And I'm sure in five or ten or twenty years however this ends up I won't care, or even maybe remember, but I can't think about that -- I'm only able to think about now, and the immediate future. And part of the issue is that it's pretty lonely on my gap year. I'm not really doing what I wanted to be doing, and all around I'm failing -- and because of that I haven't been able to meet any new people, just the old people I already knew, who are now all dropping off like flies, some for better, others for worse.

Don’t try to force anything as far as friendships or relationships, because you will always end up disappointed.

I absolutely don't want to try to force a friendship (I mentioned that in my fourth paragraph after points one and two), I just want to have a discussion with her about it, to try to figure out how to proceed from there. The problem is, I don't know how to do that.

Good luck to you!

Thanks, man

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