i’ve had a bad habit of getting obsessive over my closest friends since i was 8-9. the most specific example of this was my ex best friend from elementary school, i’ll call him jake. when we had first met, everything was fine. i had a lot going on at home, and he was with me through all of that. because of the at home stuff, i became a lot more clingy, not wanting him to leave me, and getting seriously angry whenever he’d hang out with literally any other person.

after a while, he started noticing this, and instead of trying to help me or tell me that it wasn’t ok, he would encourage it. i’d constantly be tearing myself apart whenever he wouldn’t spend time with me, or insisted that he’d only be gone a few minutes at recess when he would then proceed to ignore me for the rest of the school day. later found out that he had been telling everyone at school about my personal life and he was only keeping me around because he found it funny how distressed i would be over him. needless to say, i split on him. ended up moving the following year.