<human>: Hi \r\Relationships!

My boyfriend and I met about 3 and a half years ago, in our first year of University. We instantly hit it off, and neither of us had ever had a boyfriend before. After a few months we decided to give things a shot and give a relationship a go.

Throughout the relationship, we've built up quite a large dependency on each other. It's now got to the stage though where I feel like things have run their course. My boyfriend has graduated and has a job now, while my course is a few years longer and I'm still a student. It's becoming very hard to work out our timetables, and we've hardly been seeing each other anywhere near as much. We see each other so rarely now that I've almost gotten used to not seeing him.

We do actively talk about issues we're having, and at the start of the month he brought up the issue of us not spending a lot of time together, and a few other things, and suggested that we go on a break while trying to work it out. He told me though that he does want to try and make changes though rather than the break just being the first stage of a break up. The problem is, I do actually think I want to break up with him.

I think that if I break up with him, it will absolutely destroy him, but I feel like it's what I need to do. Our relationship has been thinning out quite a lot over quite a few months, and our attempts at trying to mend things have been unsuccessful. I've never been as close to someone before, and I think it will really affect me if he's not in my life any more.

Anyway, what I want to ask is how I go about ending something like this, and whether I'm making a decision too quickly. I've never gone through a break up before and I don't really how to do it or what to expect afterwards.

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<bot>: Feel the need to break up with my first ever boyfriend after a few months of problems. Need advice on breaking up in general.