I didn’t mean for this to happen, but I never know when to quit and I end up bothering or annoying people. A friend I’ve had for almost three years now and I have been talking a lot more than usual recently, but some days he doesn’t really respond or seem to want to talk. A normal person wouldn’t take that personally, but I do for some god awful reason. On the days they don’t message me first I’ll send a message later in the day asking what they are up to or how their day was. I know that doing that every once in a while is fine and it never seems like it really bothers him too much, and doing so would usually start a convo. But every once in a while I get scared that he found someone better or that he doesn’t want to be friends anymore, and I’ll start doing it every day. I know it’s bad, but it just happens. I started doing that again recently and for the past two weeks it’s been fine and he’s never gotten agitated by it, but past few days he’s given me one word replies or ignored me completely which scares me and makes me angry at myself for being so overbearing. Yesterday I ended up trying a few times throughout the day to start a conversation, and he got seemingly more annoyed each time. I feel really gross and angry at myself because I made him push away from me because of my constant need for attention and validation. I hate the fact that I don’t know when to just leave people alone. I never mean to be annoying or pushy, but it just happens and it makes me so sad when I end up doing it. I feel sick. I annoyed them and now he’s gonna have to forget about how annoying I am before he’ll ever talk to me again I’m just so incredibly frustrated right now and there’s nothing I can do to fix it. I don’t know if I should just apologize for being bothersome or just leave it alone for now.