<human>: My relationship with my boyfriend was born in long distance. We got closer through mutual friends the summer before his freshman year of college while I was still a senior in high school. We slowly became closer and closer friends over text, until right before we got together I was referring to him as my best friend.

I'd say we had a good relationship, we had our ups and downs and long distance was hard, but overall I was very happy. Just for reference this was my first ever relationship, his fourth, but the longest he had ever had by 14 months. 

Sunday night, around 12am, he called me crying saying he could no longer keep our relationship up, and explained that after some contemplation he realized he couldn't see a future with me and his emotions and feelings toward me had changed, and he wanted to leave as to not, "lead me on," and make it hurt more in the long run.

He still wants the chance to be friends with me, and I do as well, he's a really good guy and we're very similar in personality and interests and I would love to get back to talking to him like we used to before we got together, but I don't know how long I should take to give myself space to get over what seemed like a very abrupt breakup.

Can you succinctly summarize the text in 1-3 sentences?
<bot>: My boyfriend dumped me a night ago, but wants to stay friends, how long should I wait before i make a move in that direction?