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I've gotta say I agree with Delsyd, man. If there's anything resembling a restraining order or anything with that sort of bad vibe, I think it's time you let this thing go. Sometimes stuff doesn't work out and honestly it sounds a little like you're freaking her out. That's why people entertain the idea of restraining orders, because they feel there is no other way to get someone to give them space.
I'm afraid you've got to go your own way. If it's meant to be, it'll be in the future, but right now you've got to completely, 100% detach both physically and emotionally. It feels scary but it's what needs to be done.
I know you and I don't really agree on the living away for a time thing, but this is one of the reasons I think it can be very important to the development of a person into a full-on adult to move away from the town they grew up in. Otherwise, you can never really come to understand just how much more there is out there, away from these people you've always been around. High school is for kids and high school relationships are between kids, and when you become an adult you usually look back and see that they were practice sessions for the real thing, not that they WERE the real thing and that nothing could ever be as good. Moving away can help you to firmly establish your own identity within yourself, free of the invisible influences of those you've always been around. Then you can come BACK your own, independent man, and people will see you the way you want them to see you, rather than it being hard to see yourself the way YOU want to see YOU because of how everyone else is seeing you. The way you see yourself is the way others will see you, I promise. And the trick to seeing yourself the way you want is to go and do your own thing independent of anyone else.
Trust me dude, I'm a Chicago boy, Chicago people don't EVER leave Chicago. I always said I never would, why would I, I have everything I need there? But it's been the very best thing I could have ever done for my own personal development and sense of happiness in the end.
I love you man, and I keep bringing up this topic because honestly I think it could do you a lot of good. So many people never get away from their families and old friends enough to be able to fully break free from the molds they've been placed into since birth, and are never able to fully become themselves as THEY truly want to be, and are never able to really feel fulfilled. In today;s world we have the means to be able to go and live our own lives somewhere else for a while, and I think people should take that opportunity when they're finding themselves in a place like you seem to have found yourself. I want good things for you, man. I see a lot of myself in you, of myself from before 2005, and I'm just trying to tell you what's worked for me. And personally I never plan to go back and live where I grew up. But there's nothing wrong with you deciding to go and live out your life where you're from. It's wonderful to have such a connection to the place you're from - I wish I did. But I just REALLY think it could help you immensely to get out and really live and set up a life elsewhere for a while, just to really find your own footing and become who you were meant to be fully.
