My freind who thinks that she isn't good enough for me and she should be all alone
I’m in high school and there’s this classmate of mine who I used to be extremely close with. She had a breakup before and never fully moved on from it. We eventually got into a situationship — we both had feelings, flirted a lot, and admitted it too.
She also has anxiety issues and a rough history with friends, so I always tried being there for her. At some point, I started feeling like I was putting in more effort than she was. Recently she became dry and distant, so I stopped initiating conversations too.
Later, I sent her voice notes explaining why I pulled back. She said she felt like she wasn’t a good friend for me and that I deserved better friends because she couldn’t match my effort.
Things became awkward after that. We both started avoiding each other sometimes, and now we barely talk. She said we should just be “normal friends,” but it doesn’t feel normal anymore.
There were also rumors in school about me confessing and being touchy with her, but those things were mutual at the time, so I don’t really care about that part.
I honestly just miss the friendship we had before everything got complicated. Should I try rebuilding things slowly, give her complete space, or accept that things probably won’t go back to how they were?
I still have feelings for her tbh but I am not willing to sacrifice our friendship for anything.