I need some serious help “breaking up” with someone…?

Question by BlynxMo: I need some serious help “breaking up” with someone…?
I’m sorry my question is so long but I really want you to understand my situation…
Basically I started talking to this girl online and we became friends as we have a lot of common interests. But that’s all she is to me, an “internet friend who I have a lot in common with”.
We started kidding about how we should date since we have so much in common but she obviously took that too seriously. A while after that, whenever I signed into MSN she sent me a message saying “MINE” but I naively thought that she was just joking. A mutual friend of ours ended up asking me if we were dating a while after her “mine” phase and I told him no. But then he told me about how she talks about me a lot and acts as if we’re dating. Then I found out that she’s apparently talking about me like that with a LOT of people.
The girl and I recently had a group conversation on MSN with this other girl who likes flirting with me for laughs, then my “girlfriend” started saying “MINE” again like a clingy freak and the girl said that she opened a private conversation with her and told her how we’re “engaged, which makes him mine so lay off” and started verbally abusing her. Now I’m FREAKED OUT. I blocked her since but she started emailing me and she wouldn’t stop! She’s freaking me the hell out. I don’t even know her offline! I live across the ocean from her and my friends who I know offline are saying that she’s really creepy.
I wanna tell her that I don’t like her more than a friend but then I remember that she said that in her past relationship “her boyfriend didn’t like her as much as she liked him” (which is the same situation I’m in) and she got suicidal and stuff.
I don’t wanna hurt her (or worst case scenario, make her kill herself) but she’s creeping me the **** out!
What should I do? And no, none of this is a joke, I seriously need help in dealing with this.

Best answer:

Answer by Elizabeth B
Tell her plainly that she is being too clingy, and that you are “breaking up”. There isn’t much she can do since she doesn’t even live on your continent, but I’d change your passwords to be safe. While it is commendable that you don’t want to hurt her, you can’t be held hostage by her threats of suicide. Telling her now will be less hurtful than stringing her along. And, if you know any of her IRL friends, you can let them know to watch out for her.

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