text: help me out. i need advice on this.? my girlfriend recently left me. we were friends sence high school. she says she still loves me and wants to go back to being friends. she still says she loves me but im sure she has a new bf. how can i tell if shes just keeping me for a fall back bf and if so how can i be friends with her still haveing feelings for her cause i really want her in my life one way or the other. i am just worried i wil be vunerable to going back to her with strong feelings i have for her. what's so bad about being a back up... anything?!  as long as you get some of the sweet stuff (and not all the baggage) you should count yourself lucky.  shoot for a friendship with benefits but do stay friends.  if you don't expect more than a friendship then maybe you will not be disappointed.  good friends are hard to find.  oh, and try to not over-analyze everything!