<human>: Can you condense the text into a few key points?

Me girlfriend and I have been dating for just over a year and we've pretty much been living together that whole time.

The circumstances when we started dating made it so it just made sense to live together. Now we're nearing the end of our lease on our apartment and we're wondering if we should live in separate places.

We're around each other a lot -- evenings and weekends. We've both been feeling a bit suffocated and have been trying to do things alone more, like hang out with friends.

We don't really feel like we're dating because we're always together. We love each other a lot and don't want to give up but something needs to change. 

The problem with living apart is that my girlfriend is just getting by because her job doesn't pay her a lot. We also want travel for a few months ASAP and need to save money for that so living together would make the most sense.  

I guess living with roommates would be a good balance of having our own time and saving money but I know my girlfriend said she didn't really want to do that. We've had bad experiences with roommates in the past.

Any suggestions on how we could improve our living situation? And how we could live together and not get sick of each other/still feel like we're dating?
<bot>: me and my GF love each other but feel like we need space and want to feel like we're dating again, not just living together. Living separately might be too expensive. Any suggestions?