Hey there,

I recently broke up with my girlfriend, as she was way too clingy and suffocated me as if we were married (yet we're only in high school). I told her we'd just be friends so as not to hurt her feelings. Holidays are now soon to be over, and going back to school is getting worrying for me. When we were going out, we'd hang around exclusively with each other (Occasionally I'd try to hang around with my friends so they didn't get offended).

Now that we are going back to school, she's going to want to hang around with me. That's annoying but acceptable if I can still hang around my friends and she just comes along. But I'm pretty certain she's gonna want it to be just us.

Admittedly, I'm starting to feel disdain for her as time progresses. She's one of those people that complains non-stop about something, but never does anything to fix it. She keeps saying she has no friends, but then when a girl from school is really nice and talks to her, she just complains after that she hates them.

I thought if I broke up with her, I'd be free of her clingyness. She'd say things like "We're gonna get married!" and I'd agree with her because I felt pressured into saying it. At first I kinda believed it, but then she just got more and more clingy, and I finally realized that her personality just annoyed me. I can't say to her "I don't really wanna be friends" because I know that would just hurt her.

I feel like I'm trapped, which makes me angry. That anger is slowly turning into a hatred for her, which I feel guilty about. I've tried to express all this through drawings and poetry, but they don't make me feel much better.