I'll try to make this as brief as possible. I (22M) made a post here about a month ago about a huge red flag the girl (19f) I was seeing did. Everyone told me to drop her but one-nitis fucking got me and I couldn't drop her. Literally just 2 weeks ago I was out of town and she was telling me how much she loved me and missed me and that she couldn't wait to see me. I know don't listen to her words but her actions but I ate it all up. A few hours ago she texts me saying she needed "space" and that she wants to work on herself because she was jealous of the success I've been having after scoring an internship at a prestigious company and making moves while she's still not sure what's she's studying or where she wants to go to college and overall has no direction in life. She refuses to admit it but I am almost positive she probably has another guy in her view or maybe she already fucked him who knows. Idk how legitimate that reason for ending it was.

I considered cuffing her bc her body count was pretty low (apparently) and always seemed down for me and never gave me a reason to doubt her (up until recently). But she never wanted to because "she was traumatized from her last relationship" (another red flag.) I had options, I even took TRP advice and hooked up with other girls to tell myself not to get attached while seeing her but I just kept coming back to her for some reason.

She told me she "wanted to remain friends" which I know what that means. I considered blocking her but the petty side of me wanted to keep her close to flex on her on social media when I meet other girls but I know thats childish.

Should I really cut off all ties with her or just stop talking to her? I know I fucked up tremendously but I guess I just need RP mentor advice because as much as I hate admitting it, it's affecting me. I need better advice than "just go fuck 10 other girls."

I'm going through that process where it feels like you wanna throw up and your heart hurts and I need to get over this. Any help is appreciated thank you.