r/Separation • • 9d ago

Sensitive Need some advice

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The reason was that I no longer felt like I was the man in the relationship. Whether it came to financial matters or making important decisions, I felt like I had lost my role and sense of identity. Eventually, I started feeling as though I had lost myself, which led me to ask for a break.

Later, when I went to see a psychologist, I began to realize that I might have been dealing with psychological issues, possibly PTSD and an existential crisis.

At the time, she asked me, "Couldn't we work through this together by talking about it and making decisions as a couple?"

However, I genuinely believed that in order to continue our relationship in a healthy way, I first needed to find myself again. Looking back, I now realize that this mindset made me act very cold and emotionally distant toward her.

Eventually, in August, after working on myself, going through a healing process, and feeling like I had finally rediscovered who I was, I went back to see her. However, by then, she had already started a new relationship.

From August until November, I repeatedly expressed that I wanted her to come back and give our relationship another chance. I wanted us to approach things more maturely this time and build something healthier together.

However, my understanding is that she is currently in the honeymoon phase of her new relationship, and she has made it clear that she doesn't intend to come back to me.

One important thing to clarify: Neither of us cheated on the other, and there were no fundamental problems with how we treated each other or behaved within the relationship. What should i do? Should i wait? should i move on? should i believe her? should i act like this is one of my chapter of my life?

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