Is it normal to be this obsessed over a girl?

So I met this girl about a year ago. Drop-dead gorgeous, easy to talk to, awesome sense of humor - I've literally NEVER-EVER connected with a girl like this before. We clicked and it seemed to be both ways.

Even though she had a boyfriend, I was very direct with her from the start - telling her that I like her, touching her etcetc. And for the most part she was cool with it.

Ok, now let's fast-forward a bit. A month or so goes by and I'm falling for her. And because we get along so well (and like I said earlier, as I was very direct with her sexually - there was no confusion on either part that we're just friends) I was fairly confident that she's going to leave her current boyfriend. So one night I told her that I have feelings for her (not just sexing her, but you know..love), asking her to leave her boyfriend and to be with me. She resisted and turned me down.

Funnily enough things didn't go awkward after that (at least on my part), as I was still sure that I can change her mind. After a while though, it became more and more evident to me that it's not going to happen.

I guess by now I've went through different phases. At first there was a bit of shame. Then anger and hate for being led on for such a long time (or just living in an illusion) and feelings of inferiority towards her boyfriend (I feel that this guy is doing a lot better than me in life in general). It literally got to the point where I was ready to murder this guy. (Which I know would be totally uncalled for. Can I really blame him for having an awesome life and being together with the girl of my dreams?). Cried for like 4,5 months daily. Not kidding. I was initially shocked myself as I literally had cried ~10 times in my past 20 years. Now it was like 4,5 times a day. After a few weeks I got used to it though. I guess it wasn't only about her, but the feelings of inferiority towards the actual boyfriend (making me feel I'm out of her league) and overall hopelessness in life.

A year or so has passed, I still think about her daily. Not as much as before though. Still, why am I so obsessed? Why can't I move on?

After the whole thing I've only been focusing on making money and working out. Probably on some level hoping that she'll one day pick me over him because of that. Or perhaps because then I could be like "I'm rich, in really good shape and enjoying my life! I'm so much better than your boyfriend and there's NOTHING you can do about it! IN YOUR FACE!!"

Haven't had sex in a year now, which is really fucked up - as before, I was the kind of guy who literally changed girls like socks. Before my twenties I'd have had sex with 30+ girls or so. Now I don't even care.. Whenever I go out (which is very rare nowadays) I get quite many glances from girls and sometimes girls throwing themselves at me, but I simply don't care. I feel like I'll never find a girl like her and even if I do - I might not have the confidence anymore to attract her.

EDIT/UPDATE!! Holy s**t! As I was re-reading what I had just wrote over and over, I had an epiphany. It's all so clear now! Turning me down like that really did damage to my sense of self-worth. (hence trying to re-find it via money and getting ripped) Which in turn made me needy and insecure..which IN TURN just worsened the situation.

I remember back in high-school I rejected THE hottest girl in school (because I feared she would reject me first) and the girl started to act really needy towards me. I remember myself not understanding why a girl of such caliber was behaving like this. I mean, she had college guys (ballers in new benzes) chasing after her. So to sum it up I guess it was an ego thing combined with generally just not being satisfied with my life in general.

Plan of action? Stop being a little bitch, get out more and be more grateful for what I have. Any other thoughts?

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  • Didn't read. Yes, like all the stories like this we get all day on this site.

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  • ObsessedWithReedus

    TL;DR.. well i read a bit. Seems like you got it all under control.

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  • ThousandPoundsOfGanja

    Bro... what is your damn problem? I mean you want to murder her boyfriend because he's better than you? And you were bragging that you could get tons of ass but don't want it because "your" ass is getting fucked by some dude who's light years better than you and who doesn't cry to some people on the Internet about some guy who is fucking "his girl" like she is somehow entitled to him because he likes her, I mean I have never met someone so full of themselves, I just can't even explain it, you're a fucking joke man.

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  • dirtybirdy

    I actually read all that. Yay me and yay you. You figured it out yourself all by you lil ol self. Like just now i was gonna ask for the love of fuck what does TL;DR mean!?!? Cus its in that comment there, buuut it just registered after seeing it a million times.

    Derpybirdy.

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  • Mersaphe

    Seems like you're in love with yourself

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  • ifonlyuknew247

    I have a couple of questions/comments and then advice based on your post, but namely this part:

    "And because we get along so well (and like I said earlier, as I was very direct with her sexually - there was no confusion on either part that we're just friends) I was fairly confident that she's going to leave her current boyfriend. So one night I told her that I have feelings for her (not just sexing her, but you know..love), asking her to leave her boyfriend and to be with me."

    So you loved your female friend who you knew from the start already had a boyfriend. You clicked like with no one else before.

    First of all, sounds to me like the fact that she had a boyfriend already made you up your game, if anything. She told you she has a boyfriend from the start, and you took it as a challenge, wanting to "win", and communicating with her often, seeing her through rose-colored glasses as a prize that, if meant to be, would realize you were their soul mate and like a fairytale, would leave the committed relationship she was in for you.

    Thank goodness she turned you down (and you will think the same in the long run if you don't already), because if she hadn't, why would you think, if she did that, the same thing wouldn't happen to you when the next smooth-talker came along who gave her more attention? Sorry, it's possible you had a fantastically clicking relationship, but some of that may have been based on your pedestal/prize perception of her, her enjoyment of the attention/competition, and the non-threat of a real relationship since she was already in one. Even if it wasn't (and these are a lot of benefits-of-the-doubt), and you got along that fantastically, if it were that real, she would have left her boyfriend to concentrate on her relationship with you, her "true soulmate". Girls are sucker romantics. The fact that she stayed with him (despite whatever "circumstances" may have existed to "make" her not be able to leave or whatever) and was still with him when you made your move means YOU DID NOT HAVE A CHANCE AND NEVER DID IN HER EYES. It's harsh, but true. She may not have meant to be a heartbreaking b*tch, but sometimes when girls are young and confused, it ends up happening.

    It sounds like she wasn't 100% faithful, although maybe that was accepted in the relationship parameters she had with her bf to flirt with, talk in depth with/share deep feelings with other men (which is what many people including myself consider emotional infidelity, because if she wasn't sharing this way with her bf but was with you, that's robbing him of the entirety of her, but I digress). From what else you were saying about being "very direct with her sexually" and mentioning sex several times, and that you like "touching" her, I assume (though I don't like assuming, can't help but think) *maybe*, though I don't know, but *maybe*...that means you were possibly sexting and/or Skype sexing or something like that (which I and even more people would consider cheating), making frequent references to sex, dirty talk, heavy flirtation, and/or at the very least being very sexually aggressive, which was disrespectful on your part and on hers for continuing to participate or allow it. You eventually were lulled into a false sexual relationship whether you "did" anything even sexually suggestive or not, and became close enough to her that you believed there was a good chance she would leave her boyfriend for you.

    You're leaving out a lot of details, but from what you said here, it really reminds me a lot of a friend who had developed a very similar relationship with a girl he met online (but never IRL) who lived with her older boyfriend who supported her. He & she had a total fantasy relationship to the point where he bought her a plane ticket (she was from another country) and basically proposed for her to leave her "cruel, gilded cage life" to run away and live with him happily ever after. That was a pretty huge expectation, and I don't think he really thought it through from her POV in practical terms. But being an emotional vampire user, like your "friend", as well as a gold-digging actress-princess who never took the relationship seriously, that's when things got too "real" for her and she said no. He was really very emotionally crushed, and he ended their "relationship", which surprised her at the time. All of this happened before we met. I wondered how he could have let himself be swept up so far in this complete online soap opera fantasy. I'm pretty sure it would not have gone so far and he wouldn't have been so hurt if she didn't have a boyfriend. This gave her a false aura of being more desirable and it brought out the primitive competitive nature of the males pursuing her, because I never even met her and I know he wasn't the only one.

    Go for someone who is AVAILABLE. Any girl who flirts and allows you to aggressively pursue her after she tells you she has a boyfriend is someone you 1.) don't want as a girlfriend anyway, 2.) is an attention whore with low self-esteem, and MOST IMPORTANTLY, 3.) playing mind games with you to boost her own sorry ego. Let her be with her boyfriend, whom I feel very sorry for, and play mind game fantasy semi-IRL roleplaying with someone else. You sound like a grown up who deserves much better. Go experience real life, things you enjoy, getting to know yourself. Once you learn to love yourself more (which it sounds like you've started to do, and good on you for it) the right fantastic, real, genuine, perfect woman will come to you and make you forget all about whoever that...person...is/was/whatever. Time heals all wounds, and to your future happy self I say, congratulations.

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  • Crazy-guy

    Man I need your help. 19 now and the only thing I remember is "nailing" my cousin sister at the age of 7 or 8, cant remember and I really want to know how u nailed 30+ girls before 20 ??? Dude you are cool just forget about her and go back to changing girls like socks (dont recomend it though) or look for another even hotter chick.

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  • merkulov

    Thanks everyone!! @Thatguy777: I'm too proud to ever be just friends with her. Fuck that.

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  • Thatguy777

    I read all of it because I was in a very similar situation last year. I didn't cry as often, maybe once or twice every couple of weeks depending on the current situation which is more than I'd ever cry which would maybe happen once year. Anyway, the reason you can't stop thinking about her is because you were in love with her. Maybe you don't realize it, but that's what it was. And she was probably your first love, which just makes it harder.

    I went through most of the same things you're going through. I met her last year and fell in love with her, ended up telling her how I felt, got rejected, and then the awkwardness came out. She didn't want to talk to me as much because of how I felt, and she ignored me which messed me up psychologiclly. Then I went through most of what you went through. Right now we aren't even friends, but I'm trying my hardest to work things out with her, because I still want to be friends with her, even though we can't be together. Best of luck to you and your situation.

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  • disthing

    I think you should keep a diary or something. Sounds like you needed to offload.

    As to whether it's normal to feel like this, if you've been to this site before, you'd realise it is.

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