My best friend is never without her beloved, the fact he lives so close (and has now pretty much moved into her room) doesn't help. I was happy for her at first as this is her first serious relationship, but because of this (and the fact she is quite young) it's affected not just our friendship but the rest of her life. She won't go to uni because she wants to lie in bed with him, she won't come out and meet her friends because she daren't leave his side, she won't talk to her parents because he's in her room….you get the idea. The rift has also gotten pretty large between us because her bf can be quite snappy or disrespectful towards others (like say if I said I was a christian he would call me an idiot or if someone put his toys out of order (he collects them) he would lose it) and she will always defend his aggression by saying she feels exactly the same before cuddling him and leaving us standing there dumbfounded at her sudden change of attitude; he's definitely changed her for the worse.

I know "young love" is a wonderful thing, but I think it's the fact that they went into the relationship so fast (they'd met a few times over a few months but once they got together they've gone "let's do everything and plan to meet my parents on oppossite ends of the country within the first day of our relationship" fast, I'm not exaggerating by the way) and the fact she has never done this sort of thing before, that has made it affect her so strongly and last so long. I think the hardest part is that I know if it all goes wrong she will get hit the hardest but, at the rate this is going, I don't know if I want to pick up the pieces.