Pushed away to save my friendship...

...and now it's killing me! I met my soulmate over the internet, and she's my best friend in the whole world! I'm female and we're both authors who enjoy music and many of the same things. It got the point where we spent a lot of time together.

When we have been talking lately, we seem to fight over the simplest things. My good friend, who's been helping me with all of this, just shruged and said, "When people spend a lot of time together, they easily get on each other's backs."

We finally had a talk, me and my best friend (let's call her Mary), and she said our friendship was getting more so "addictive" and that we should start spending time apart and have distance, but she doesn't know...

When I start to distance myself from people, I slowly begin to like them less and less. I have become dissatisified with talking with her because I give her everything that she wants and needs, but all I want is the love like she gave me before, but now it's just... *poof*!

I'm afraid I'll start to dislike her or vice versa and we'll seperate...I want her to love me and I know she does, but if we continue to fake everything and smother it, I will eventually explode and maybe leave her. I need some gold advice here. What should I do and is this normal? I've explained my feelings and how I deal with things to other people and all hey could say was "...and I thought *I* was complicated."

~Hekate