Hi everyone,

I am writing because I am not sure how to really get over this situation.
So I am friends with this girl (myself a girl ) we are on our mid twenties.We met on a forum for a show a year and so ago and hit it off ,we became close and we found out we lived in the same city (how awesome ,have so many things in commun).We obviously eventually planned to meet IRL (duh!) and first time something came up ,so It wasnt possible to follow through with our plan but for a valid reason .

Now I'm not doubting If my friend is real or not ,PLEASE do not question that because I have no doubt in my mind and that isn't the problem .So we still didnt meet because we traveled a couple of times(obviously are back ) but I have always wondered why she never initiated the "lets hang out conversation "since we are very close and get along super well and living minutes away.I know cause she once gave me her address when I was supposed to send her something...Huge fast forwaaard ...
So recently she was going through something and I was there for her,she kept thanking me for being there when nobody else was and that she needed to talk so much and.A while after, I did ask her that I wish I could just hug her,take her out for ice cream when she is feeling down etc,be a real friend instead of trying in vain to help her with my texts .I wonder why we still didn't meet etc etc and she finally decided "to be honest with me" and adress the issue for the first time and I was really shocked because I always wondered why she never asked me to hang out.I certainly didn't pressure her after It didn't work out 3 times and she never initiated that .So she told me that she has overprotective parents (That's true she told me about it before).She said she mentioned to her mom that she'd meet her "friend from that show"and she freaked out about her talking to people online .She also mentioned she is an adult and can hang out wih whoever she wants and that put her in a difficult situation and would feel bad lying to her mom everytime she was supposed to hang out with me.She said it wans't about me since her mom doesn't know me anyway.She also mentioned she didnt tell me all of this before because she didnt wanna hurt my feelings and that it has nothing to do with me personally,and she didn't want me to think she doesn't wanna meet me or something.

Well I'm definitely hurt because part of me know that her parents are over protective (no doubt about that,even with her own bf,we talked about it before )but I know she has friends here (I remember her telling me that she has to go somewhere with friends,house warming parties etc etc,hang out etc.. ),the other part still thinks that If she really wanted to,It could have happened and the reason why I'm hurt is because I just imagined "what would she do If her other friends from the show came for holidays in the city and wanted to meet her "and the answer to this question is without doubt "hell yeah she would make an effort"./I don't know she said that I'm her sister,that we were like best friends because we talked about everything ,that I'm very important to her and everything but I don't know I can't help this feeling.We really have a strong bond,that I don't wanna lose but I don't know what this means,I don't know If I am able to just ignore this happened and keep texting as If nothing happened .We talked about it and moved on and for a second I thought It was fine but It does hurt(I know it's fresh) and I don't wanna bring it up again with her since we already talked about it.I don't want to pretend and keep texting as If nothing happened ...

I don't know what to think If I should consider this a texting friendship but it just hurts me to think we live minutes away and I can't do nothing about it .
I wanna believe that she does want to meet me and that is the only reason why she didnt but at the same time I'm wondering If she does care deep down even though she told me she does care and I am very important to her but the fact that If her other friends "from the show"(as she told her mom) came to visit and wanted to meet her,that she would so do it just hurt me more.

Please your opinion would be welcome .I don't know where to go from here