<human>: Me and my boyfriend had been dating just over a year when we ended it a couple days ago. It was mutual, but still it's sucked a lot.

We broke up because we both wanted to be more independent and be able to grow as people kind of a thing, and I'm a really needy person which was making that difficult. We also have really different personalities and found ourselves compromising for each other more than we should have been.

The break up was mutual, but it's been incredibly difficult to deal with, for both of us. We wanted to stay friends so we're still talking, but we're trying to figure out now if we made the right decision. There are couples who are independent and their own person while still being a relationship, so maybe it's possible that we can be like that too, but I don't know what the right call here is. We don't want to get back together just to have these problems break us up again, so we need some type of a plan to fix them if we do get back together.

Has anyone been through this before? Any Redditors who have been able to be independent and grow as their own person while still being a relationship? We're both still very much in love and don't want to lose each other, but I don't know how to fix these problems other than breaking up.

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<bot>: Me and my boyfriend had a mutual break up because we wanted more independence, now not sure if we made the right decision.