How to move on from a girl who isn't ready for a relationship

When she says she isn't ready, watch what she does more than what she says. Slow replies that come back when she has a free minute, plans that never get a day or time attached, and a habit of steering conversations back to light topics all fit someone who wants company without commitment. Her saying she likes you fits that too. It doesn't contradict it.

Read the pattern over two or three weeks. One slow reply means nothing. A steady gap that you keep covering with your own effort is the thing to notice. If you're the one proposing every date and filling every silence, she's telling you the arrangement is lopsided, even if she never says it out loud.

Most people who struggle to move on keep the thread alive by doing the emotional maintenance themselves. You send the good morning text, you ask the follow-up question, you suggest the next thing to do. Each of those makes it easier for her to stay where she is and harder for you to see the situation clearly.

For a couple of weeks, match her effort exactly, no more. If she replies in a day, you reply in a day. If she proposes nothing, you propose nothing. The silence that follows will tell you more than any explicit conversation. If you can't do that without feeling like you've disappeared, that feeling tells you how attached you already are.

Moving on works better when you decide ahead of time what counts as the end. Maybe it's a specific date when you stop making plans, or a number of unanswered messages, or the moment she finally says the thing she's been circling. Write it down, even in your notes app. That keeps you from renegotiating it every time you miss her.

If you do end up sending a closing message, keep it short and let it be the last thing you say unless she asks for more. You don't owe her a reason. A long explanation mostly makes you feel better and gives her something to argue with.