Doomed to fail

What if you know your relationship with a friend is doomed to fail?

You care too much to organically let things happen and you blame yourself for their sadness.

You stay away.

You don't want to be brave and accept that you need them. Just the sound of their voice makes you want to do everything they say and you thoroughly despise yourself for letting them have so much control over you.

You stay away.

You hurt them but you think they are better off. Actually, all you are doing is setting them up to becoming more cynical.

You understand their vulnerability, the one that they are too proud to admit. So, you don't suggest it at all. This is one person you know is enough for you and you feel like even if all the wonderful people weren't there, the absence of this one person would tear you apart.

This scares the shit out of you. So?

You stay away.

You think you are doing this for your own good. Are you really? You know you've hurt them but you don't know how to make it right.

You are too scared to admit how much they mean to you lest they are scared away themselves. So, what do you do?

You do the whole god-damn thing again. You make them feel like you don't care. It all goes over again.

You stay away.

You are doomed to fail.

What do you do?