What they don’t seem to understand is that *I’m not in a relationship*. I barely know this person, yet I feel like we’re soulmates. Yeah, this behavior might be somewhat normal for a proper, close, long-term relationship, but *a distant ACQUAINTANCE*?! Someone I might not even realize how much I care about until I want to die?

Because, the thing is, I’m projecting some weird distorted image of mommy issues onto these people, and pointing out aspects of their personality is just my brain trying to rationalize why I feel this way. When I come back to reality, I often find my FPs to be annoying, immature, stupid, and generally not relationship material. 