Girlfriend needs space/doesn't know what she wants
I was seeing this girl for about 3 months and things were going amazingly. She said she was crazy about me and I was too. She'd come over, we'd watch movies together, cuddle, kiss, all that jazz. Then there was a week where she got extremely distant from me. We didn't hang out for a week and a half and I knew something was wrong. We planned to hang out last weekend when I got a text from her saying "I'm sorry but I really haven't been feeling it lately" I asked her what was wrong and she said that her feelings for have have gone down dramatically. I don't know how this could have happened so suddenly...
I asked her if there was another guy and she said no. I asked her if she was lying and she said "No, you know I would/never have lied to you" and she really hasn't. I believe her. I thought about it and realized that I was a little pushy about asking her to be my girlfriend. She said she wasn't ready and I kept trying to convince her that it now was a good time. I feel like I gave her too much of me at once, and that might have scared her off. She said that she is extremely overwhelmed with school too so that might also be a factor.
After talking w/her about this she said she doesn't know what she wants and that she was so sorry she was doing this to me. Yesterday was the first time we saw each other after this whole thing and it was extremely awkward. I tried making conversation w/her but it didn't last long. After school we started texting each other again and were having good conversation, but it took her 2 hours to respond to my first text. Very unlike her. Prom is coming up and I asked her if she was ever planning on going and she said no. Not even when things were going well b/t us because that just wasn't her thing. I was kindof relieved to hear that because I really wanted to go w/her before all of this happened and I didn't want her to go alone or w/anyone else. We talked more about the situation and I asked her if she just needed some space and she said that would be nice.
I told her that I would still talk to her when I saw her in passing at school if she wanted, and she said that's OK. But I also told her that if she wanted to text me she had to text me first because she can't think if I'm always texting her when she doesn't want me to. And she promised me that she would tell me when she figures things out. Just seeing her in school makes me desperately want things to be the way they were again, but I don't know anymore. She said that we're more like friends again, but time will tell. We haven't really talked since then. Its been a day since we talked and this is the longest we've gone w/out contact.
This is incredibly hard for me. It sucks when you love someone and they don't share the same feelings for you anymore all of a sudden. She said she thinks it might just be a phase, but she really doesn't know. Everything reminds me of her. I can still smell her on my couch and I can't look/think of anything without thinking about her. I want to get her off my mind but I just can't. It's better when I occupy myself, but it comes back as soon as I get home. I'm 18yrs old, I'm young, but this is really hard to deal with. Any advice is appreciated.