By Breaking Celebrity News Staff

Rihanna, in an interview with November's Vogue, says society just doesn't understand what makes her relationship with Chris Brown tick, as it's too focused on rehashing the February 2009 incident in which he beat her senseless.

“The world hasn’t let go," she said. "They haven’t seen any progress in our friendship, because they don’t see anything. But they’re not on the inside. They can’t see what I see, unless they’re sitting in my point of view. I guess I’ll learn to accept that.”

She added she feels the world acts as if "there’s no closure" in her relationship with Brown, and has harbored "an obsession that’s continued even throughout when we weren’t friends or couldn’t be friends at all."

She said she didn't think Birthday Cake -- her duet with Brown earlier this