Iphone won't delete messages

I have an iPhone 5s, and before that I had a 4s. Back when I upgraded to ios 7 on my 4s, I experienced a problem where I could not delete texts, and when I got my 5s, the issue persisted. So here is what's happening: lets say I want to delete all the messages with my girlfriend, I go to the conversation and I delete it like normal, but then I want to text a friend. So I tap on the convo of my friend and suddenly my phone gets real slow, and about 15 seconds later the convo opens up, but it only shows the last message sent by either of us, and when I try to send a text, it won't send. So I turn my phone off and back on (I've also tried holding the home button and lock button at the same time) and when I get back into the messaging app, my girlfriends messages are back. but I can send texts again. That's my problem. But I've noticed that my messaging is taking up tons of space and id like to get rid of it. So I was searching around and a guy on the apple forums had a solution where I would turn off messages in spotlight search and then go to the message app and delete everything in it, then close out every running application and then do a reset. He said to repeat it multiple times and the space being used would slowly go down. but when I do that and I turn my phone off and then back on, all my messages are still there and the space used does not go down. I dont know what I should do.

The person on the Apple forums was deeply incorrect

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