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So me and my girlfriend have been dating for nearly 4 months. I’m which we did hit a short patch that didn’t last even a week of breaking it off due to her being confused about her feelings. But even during that time we talked consistently and decided to try to work everything out. She recently started back working so we can’t hang out as often as before but she calls me every day on her way home from work/school and we text quite frequently throughout the day. But she also has moments where she randomly stops replying mid conversation. I tend to over think things and wanted your opinion on if it seems like she’s genuinely interested in the relationship or just going with it? Feel free to comment and give some insight if you’d like

I am 28, and I missed out on a lot of social-developmental milestones during my youth that I feel haunts me till this day.

I just awoke a few minutes ago from a dream where I was in my old middle school and I was all grown up. Everything had changed, like my old band director was gone and her classroom was abandoned. I woke up feeling very sad. It was a dream about growing up and everything changing over time.

All my former friends today are married with kids. I am the last one to be unmarried and childless. Even worse, I still never had a real girlfriend.

My biggest regret in life is not experiencing love and romantic acceptance/validation from the opposite sex in my youth. I missed out on young romance for the most part. During high school, I hardly had any friends. The ones I did have I didn't hang out too much outside school. It was a shock the one time I went out with my friend's group of friends, because I never had an actual group of friends I hung out with until that one time.

Would you stay friends with someone who you were seeing/talking to from work who is 9 years younger than you, who you hung out with outside of work and during Valentine’s Day (where you got each other gifts, cooked for her and kissed your way out the door) just to have her tell you that she wants to just be friends because she doesn’t feel independent enough/ready to continue seeing you in that way? Apart from the fact that she claims to be too busy to make time to see you what with going to school and working on the weekends?

Is it possible that she just lost interest and found someone else and is trying to “let me down easy?” Even though she was the one who wanted to get with me in the first place? She posts on her Instagram story a lot of crying HelloKitty posts and stuff like that sending the message that she is distressed about the situation.