Feeling Regret

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It's been a while since I stopped talking to this girl I knew. We were starting to get serious when she broke it off. I later learned that she expected me to fight to save the relationship. I didn't want someone playing with me like that, so I just stopped talking to her. We're still on relatively friendly terms, but I can't help but long for her. I guess it's because I've only ever talked to a few girls in my lifetime and I don't like being alone. I don't know. I just wish we were still talking because she knows the real me and accepted it. I didn't have to hide anything. We could have talked about almost anything. I've only met a few people like that in my life and they're mostly the people I still keep in touch with. This girl and I had a real connection.

I don't know what to do. I feel regret and sadness, but I'm also glad I got away from a liar (this is something she does compulsively) and a sadist.

If she lies a lot, then she cannot be trusted. No trust and head games, to me is an absolute waste of time. My vote is to move along and don't look back

I don't care how well you thought you connected, the fact is you don't want to get mixed up with compulsive liars and sadists, they're dangerous.

There will be others. Don't waste your time on someone who isn't actually worthy of you.

You made the right decision by cutting her off, don't question yourself. Chances are she could have been lying to you about her feelings, too.

I don't think she was lying about her feelings, but I don't know. Lots of truth in here, though. Thanks for that.

Have a long hard think about it and take your time to decide if you actually want to be back with her and legitimately regret things or if you are in love with the idea of being back with her.

When I broke off my 5 year long relationship, I couldn't believe it. I regretted it so much and thought perhaps I was a fool... I thought I had made a terrible mistake. But I knew we weren't right for each other in the long run, our time was up. I decided a small part of me would love her forever but not in the way I love a significant other exactly and it is only a small part of me... and that what I was struggling with was that I still loved the idea of being with her, and that the emotional response was more to do with looking back on the good times we had together and wanting something like that back and feeling a fondness for her still. It was a difficult realisation for me to have but once it sunk in that I didn't actually want the real her back I just wanted what we once had, it became much easier to let go and move on.

Maybe it's nothing even similar for you, maybe it is...
If you decide you do genuinely want her back in the end, tell her exactly what you told us, both the positives and the negatives.
If you decide you don't want her as she really is, maybe this will help you with closure.

I understand the feeling of regret, especially because the situation is so mixed. It's harder when there were things that could actually be considered good, such as being understood, but you know it was going to be too much for you in the long run.

That's usually what's helped me to move on: that I was getting away from weird, murky feelings and into calmer waters.