<human>: My girlfriend and I have been in a long distance relationship for almost half a year now and as we will both be attending different universities we have decided to break up. We had only met up with each other every month or so for periods of time varying from a weekend to 2 weeks at a time. 

Holidays are becoming scarce and it's just too much to handle for her in particular. With university coming up for us in less than a year now we have decided to break up sooner rather than later for obvious reasons. She told me that we would not have the time or money to see each other even semi-often while we are in university.

I just don't know what to do, I feel numb. We both love each other yet we have to break up as it will just hurt more if we do it later. We have agreed to stay friends but right now we need time, however as silly and cliche as it sounds I can't imagine her not being in my life and while I'm totally fine with being just friends this is extremely difficult and I worry she might grow distant.

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<bot>: Had to break up due to LDR being too much to handle, We love each other and I'm completely lost and have no idea what to do.