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Should I break up with her? It's her birthday!

 
 
Reply Mon 25 Sep, 2017 05:44 pm
So, this is kind of a long story so I'll do my best to shorten it. I'm 15. My girlfriend is as well. About a year ago, her cousin was dating my best friend. I was good friends with both of them but when they broke up, the cousin manipulated me into thinking my friend was a horrible person. I completely cut him off, and began dating my girlfriend shortly after. At first, things were great. We share so many interests and have a lot in common. But it's getting to the point where she wants to talk on the phone with her for hours on end with nothing to actually talk about. She just expects me to carry the conversation. Things are getting boring. We've talked about the same stuff for so long and it's really lost it's charm for me. I find myself avoiding phone calls entirely because of how boring and awkward it is. She's also WAY more attached to me than I am to her. Not even a month after we started talking... Let me say that again. TALKING. Not even dating yet. She was already telling her cousin that she loved me. And she still does. I've said it but I've stopped because I realize that I don't feel the same way. With her feelings toward me, she's also getting kind of clingy. We got into an argument about how she doesn't thin I care about her at all, because even if I did want to talk as much as she does, I can't with my extra curricular activities at school and stuff outside of school. I've recently started talking to my friend and he tells me that this is exactly why he broke up with her cousin. If either of them find out I'm talking to him after all the things I was made to believe about him, they'll make me look just as horrible as him. I want to break up with her soon. I don't want to deal with the stress coming from this any longer. But her birthday just happens to be coming up in about a week and a half. She's expecting me to go so I can meet her parents who she hasn't even told that she's dating me. She also lives in another city so texting and phone calls are our only way to communicate most of the time. I don't know when to do it... Should I do it before the party and possibly ruin her birthday? or should I do it after and fake my way through it? I've felt this way for a while and I intend to tell her that. How should I do this? And should I cut her cousin off too after what she did? I'm feeling really stuck here.
 
jespah
 
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Reply Mon 25 Sep, 2017 05:56 pm
@Doctor Sleepless,
1) Don't involve her cousin. You don't have to cut the cousin off, but recognize that they will talk about you just like you talked to your friend about them. Sauce for the goose and all of that. Her cousin is uninvolved so let that be the least of your worries.
2) Break up with her now. As in, log off and do it tonight. I'm totally serious. You need to nip this now, before she gets any more attached, before she expects any more stuff revolving around her birthday, and before she introduces you to her folks. Let her save some face (she may not see it that way, but this absolutely as much of a face-saving move as you can make right now) and cut the cord now.
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PUNKEY
 
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Reply Mon 25 Sep, 2017 08:09 pm
Of course she's going to want a reason.

Tell her that 15 year olds shouldn't get so serious.
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ehBeth
 
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Reply Mon 25 Sep, 2017 09:05 pm
@Doctor Sleepless,
Break off today/tonight.

You don't have to give a reason.

If you want to, try not to be mean but be honest.

Long distance relationships are difficult at the very best of times. When at least one person really isn't interested, there is absolutely no reason to try to make it work

Break it off.

Let her know that you will be blocking her on social media for at least a month. Blocker her on your phone as well.

Don't let tears/hysteria/threats change your mind. Be calm, be cool, be honest - whatever it was is over.

Take some time to meet young women locally. Join clubs etc. Keep busy with school and activities.

The timing of her birthday is irrelevant. Get it over with.
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