I've been manically depressed over a girl before. We were together for over three years. I felt like I would never find anyone like her, that I was incapable of being loved by anything else, yadda yadda. It's not enough in words to depict my state of desperation and anxiety. Not to mention how much I let myself go in those three years (yeah, I let myself go in highschool.)
long story short, I'm more into the fwb thing nowadays, but because I've opened myself up to a casual love-life, there's so much less stress and petty arguments. You're not actually friends with your girlfriend if you feel insecure around or without her or vice versa. You're depending on someone else, which may seem romantic, but ultimately it leads to two dependant people depending on eachother and not capable of depending on themselves, which creates over-dependence. Attachment. Addiction. Also let me remind everybody that love and companionship existed before romance; romance is a medieval plotline, not the ultimate aspiration of human life.
now get the **** back into music, soldier. full force