Can taking a break be a good thing?

Been seeing a guy for 6 months, official for 1 month. We fight a lot. Up until now I didn’t really mind it because it is usually productive and we learn a lot about each other. I figured it was just kind of our style of communicating on harder issues.

But recently it’s really wearing on me. I feel like I am frequently thinking about all my flaws and how to be better, but I want to be true to myself and not be sorry for my flaws either, and so I have to find some middle ground and then communicate that to him. I am in therapy and going through a lot of big life changes so this added relationship dynamic has been really making it hard for me to make sense of my priorities. My head is just in a tizzy a lot.

He’s also going through big changes and I feel like maybe we need to take a step back and focus on our own lives for a bit. There’s a part of me that feels like this might be good for us right now, but then I wonder if maybe we aren’t compatible and taking a break is just a way for me to brush things under the rug and hope it will somehow resolve later. I’ve shared this with him and he agrees.

Can this be a good thing? Or is it a bad sign that we want to space from each other?



Submitted May 07, 2019 at 06:11PM

Been seeing a guy for 6 months, official for 1 month. We fight a lot. Up until now I didn’t really mind it because it is usually productive and we learn a lot about each other. I figured it was just kind of our style of communicating on harder issues.But recently it’s really wearing on me. I feel like I am frequently thinking about all my flaws and how to be better, but I want to be true to myself and not be sorry for my flaws either, and so I have to find some middle ground and then communicate that to him. I am in therapy and going through a lot of big life changes so this added relationship dynamic has been really making it hard for me to make sense of my priorities. My head is just in a tizzy a lot.He’s also going through big changes and I feel like maybe we need to take a step back and focus on our own lives for a bit. There’s a part of me that feels like this might be good for us right now, but then I wonder if maybe we aren’t compatible and taking a break is just a way for me to brush things under the rug and hope it will somehow resolve later. I’ve shared this with him and he agrees.Can this be a good thing? Or is it a bad sign that we want to space from each other?
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