My friend

I have this friend called anxiety. He follows me pretty much everywhere and we know each other pretty much our whole lives now. He can be pretty jealous of other social contacts and will try to keep them away from me, but that’s just how he is, I can’t really blame him, he made some bad experiences with other people in the past. The past few years we’ve been fighting a lot. There we’re even times when I thought I will leave him for good. Sometimes I didn’t see him for weeks. But we just keep getting together, a friendship like that can’t just end like that. Right now, we are doing pretty good again. We’re spending time together constantly again, the only times he is ok with leaving is when I’m with my girlfriend, because she doesn’t really like him that much. He gets jealous of her a lot, but I just try to keep them separated. Sometimes he gets so jealous that he forces his way in, to spend time with me when I really just want to be with her. But that’s just the way he is...

Many people tell me I should have broken off this friendship for years now. But I just got so used to him, you know...