How do you break up with someone you love?

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I feel like my boyfriend and I should break up. We just want different things in life and I don't think we're going to work out in the end. I have talked to him about it, I even told him I feel like we should break up but I really really don't want to because I love him so much. 
I don't feel like I'm ready to make a big permanent decision like that, but I also don't think we're going to work out in the end. Should I wait until I'm ready maybe?!
 I don't want to hurt him, and I would be hurt too. It would be so hard on me. But I feel like it eventually needs to happen even though I know it will be so hard. I want it to be a mutual decision but that's not up to me lol. How do you break up with someone you love?! 😔

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Been there, done it. End it now before the relationship goes sour. Do it while you still like each other so you'll have good memories of the relationship instead of bad. Who knows, you may decide to be friends ...

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If it needs to happen eventually, you're not doing either of you a favor by staying together. Every day you are still a couple, you're keeping that bond there and when you finally cut it, it's going to hurt worse.

There's no easy way to break up. At best, he'll acknowledge that you're right and eventually it would have needed to happen... but it'll still be hard. Just be kind. Don't drag it out. Don't force a friendship (if it happens, fine, but don't try to keep him in your life out of comfort. It'll blur lines and make it hard to know what your relationship is now).

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If you run from your fears you will never find true happiness

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As hard as it is, you just have to grit your teeth and do it.

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You just gotta do it. And it is hard. Just make sure you remind him he didn't do anything wrong and it's no ones fault, you just feel like he's not "the one" you know? Good luck!

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normally you don't want to break up with someone you love. in the end you need to do what's right for you. being with someone for 3 years is a long time but if you're starting to feel stuck like you're going one way and he's going another I think it's best to end it before it's 4 years or 5 years and even harder than it would be to do it now.

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Side note:
We have been together for 3 years. He has been my life for three years. That's why it would be so hard on both of us.

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