“My girlfriend and I were going out for 2 months. I have a very awkward personality and humor about me. Everything was going great for the first couple of weeks until I got kicked out of my parents house and she let me move into her studio apartment with her. Everything went great for a while. I became too sappy, clingy, trying too hard. We always did everything together and never gave us time to ourselves. She broke up with me after she said we’d work things out. I’ve become very needy in wanting the relationship to work out and get back together with her and it’s annoyed her. So we’ve decided to live separate lives and I’ve slowly taken the steps to stop nagging her on getting back together. How can I fix things with her to try to make things work? I feel i’d be smothered if i moved back home and everything that happened there will only go back to the same. We want to work on being friends and i’ve only made her more mad at me by wanting to stay together. She just recently told me after being despised at me that we’d be fine we just need some space to not be so sick of each other. I don’t know what to do? any ideas or suggestions?”

- Mike (24)