I (27M) have seeing my partner (28NB) for a a year and everything was great til they decided to distance themselves as they “need time and space” since they are dealing with some personal problems and want to solve them and deal with them alone!
It’s been nearly a month and a half since that incident with no contact between us and I’m trying my best to respect their space but I don’t know if I should wait or break it off… I can see myself slowly getting disinterested in them as there is no investment in the relationship. What should I do? Are they taking too long or am I just impatient?
Note that the relationship In itself is kind of unlabeled… more of a situationship where we refer to each other as partners but not really officially together if that makes sense…..
TL;DR: partner needs space and I’m getting impatient as they are taking too long
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Personally if I were in your shoes I would send my partner a message that I’ve decided to start looking into dating other people and hope that things work out for the best for them.
If they don’t reply within a day with some kind of “no. wait” or “let’s talk” or something to indicate that they still want a relationship I would consider it a break up and move on.
Give yourself a period to find who you are again as a single person before asking anyone out.