<human>: Can you summarize the given text in a few sentences?

I had been hanging out with this girl for 4 months now. after 1 month I started developing feelings for her. Strong feelings. So after 2 months of flirting, teasing, playing around whenever I can, I confessed my feeling to her. I told her how I would understand and respect her answer no matter what they would be. And I meant it. She told me she needs some time to think this through. During next 2 weeks, things were going not bad. Two weeks later she started distancing her self for no apparent reason. Almost stopped initiating conversations and texts were getting shorter and not as enthusiastic as they were before. So I figured she had her answer but she since she does not want to "hurt" my feelings she decided to just distance herself until I got the idea. Eventually she stopped texting back. After trying to get her to meet me to talk to her for about a month I left her a text saying how I get her and how i would not go after her and bother her. But she replied. She says she wants to be just friends for now (as if she's going to change her mind in the future) and she wasn't sure what to say to me so she distanced herself from me. I told her I understand her completely and there's no hard feelings. But I don't think I can be just friends with her and things could go back to what it was before all this. I'm worried that If I keep seeing her the feeling would just get deeper and it would be harder for me to move on. But I don't want to make her think that I was this guy who was just being nice and understanding until he gets rejected. So how should I distance myself and fade away from her life?
<bot>: Had the "Let's just be friends" talk. Said I'd be okay and would continue our friendship. Feels like I should get out of her life and break off the friendship for my own good. Don't know how.