feeling trapped with my girlfriend

LegacyUser

Right I’m kinda out of sorts at the moment for a few reasons, you see all through my teen years I was really overweight and greasy haired and spotty and had absolutely no luck what so ever with girls then I lost most of the weight and I got a bit better looking and only in the past 2/3 years have I been able to get girls, and I’ve spent most of that time in serious relationships also i spent my teens living with overbearing parents and only a few years ago did i move out and gain independence and i love it.

Now after I broke up with my last girlfriend (amicably) I decided to stay single then I met my current girlfriend and I couldn’t help myself, I mean she was everything I ever wanted in a girl and by some weird brain disease she was mad about me too 'cept she's had a very conservative up bringing and has never really done anything out of the ordinary,
Thing is the thing she loved about me is that I was this adventurous crazy guy which I only was because I had the freedom to be myself, now me being myself is pretty crazy I tend to do stupid stuff a lot for fun which scares the crap out of her and I mean I know I'm a mature responsible 24 year old guy and I know my limits and I know what I'm doing but that just doesn’t wash with her
and the more I stay with her the more I find myself losing what it was that she liked about me,

it’s kinda wrecking my head because you see I love her to pieces but I feel I'm compromising a lot of who I am to be with her which I wouldn’t mind if id lived a bit but I haven’t. I want to get out there and see what’s going on. Basically the problem is. If I stay with her ill have major resentment that I can’t do what I want and if I leave her I know ill regret it

i can always get my **** together with a job/house/kids etc when I'm older but ill never get my youth back
and also i love this girl and i think if we stay together we'll wind up making each other unhappy.

If you're as certain as you seem to be that staying with her will make you both miserable, then leave her and explain all this to her.

Agree with Bluewolf.

You should follow your gut instinsts on this.
Everyone can be unhappy but theres no need to be deliberately unhappy.