What should I do? Relationship confusion

Me and my bf were dating for 7 months. My bf broke up with me because we were fighting too much. So he decided that we should be single and take space to fix the relationship but stay faithful to each other. He stated that he wanted to start the relationship all over again from scratch as friends and then slowly work our way up from there. I can't start all over again because of my feelings for him. What should I do?