I broke everything and I don’t feel any better. How do I navigate my feelings about my relationship? [31/M] [36/F]

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Basically title. I’ve been together with her for a year and half and things have been shaky to say the least.

I have written previous posts here about how I have been fed up with my relationship and how I’m not looking forward to the future.

I ended up talking to my gf about it and I felt like I broke her. She’s no longer feeling secure (for good reason) and she’s very unhappy as well.

It started making me question whether I was right about my decision or not. And how is this sustainable for long term?

I remember feeling the way that I do, that I hate all the times she gets mad at me for something and the fact that all I do is just change for her. But somehow I felt like deep down, I questioned why I bothered doing any of it. Why would I put up moving away and having a miserable commute to work every day? Why am I upset about something we fought over every month? Was I even right to feel the way that I do? Was it even worth it for me? We haven’t even had sex for 5-6 months.

And yet I feel like the bad guy here and that I broke everything. I don’t know how to navigate any of these feelings or my relationship and I genuinely need someone to give me some advice.

Idk even what to think or how to handle the relationship.

TLDR; I wrote multiple posts about being fed up about my relationship and how often we fight and how I questioned why I even changed my work schedule, consider moving away and have a miserable commute, or always put up with cleaning up after we fight. But after we talked, I broke her and she’s a shell of how she used to be. And now I questioned if I were even right to feel the way that I do.

Comments

  1. ahdrielle Avatar

    Does she feel guilty because she didn’t realize how her behavior affected you? Or is she just upset that you brought it up?

  2. General-Zombie5075 Avatar

    >I have written previous posts here about how I have been fed up with my relationship and how I’m not looking forward to the future.

    Well, this post reads like you told her the preamble to a break up but didn’t actually follow through with it.

    It’s a lot like when a hunter just wounds the animal instead of going for the clean kill. Now it’s off and screaming and bleeding and dying bad.

    Put this relationship out of everyone’s misery so you both can move on.

  3. ThomasEdmund84 Avatar

    It sounds like rather than taking accountability for her actions she’s just being self-pitying and “sad” about being a bad person. 1.5 years is a fairly short time to be having this much drama and challenge imho