How do you know when it's time to break up with someone?

I mean, if you love someone, but you think it's not right for you, how do you know that it's time to break up? When does ';needing a bit of space'; become ';needing to end it';. And what if you're wrong and you regret it?





I have a constant sinking feeling. It came on suddenly. No arguing or anything I just suddenly started feeling like it.





We have a holiday in a week and a half.





Advice please?!?!?How do you know when it's time to break up with someone?
Needing space is different from needing to break up. Just because you are a couple and ';one'; doesn't mean you automatically become the same person. You can keep yourself in a relationship. Things about you and things about him were atttractive. Don't lose those.





Now if you feel you're not happy and he won't change or make adjustments, or you feel there is no future. . .then it is time to break up. It is possible you will regret it, but ti will still be right.





I had a girl, we lvoed each other so much and were great together. But our future plans were way too different. We had to end it. It was hard, but for the best.How do you know when it's time to break up with someone?
Holidays can be make or break so I think you should see how it goes there. It's so easy to end things but every relationship has it's ups and downs. It could be that other areas of your life are making you unhappy and it is affecting your relationship, so spending quality time with your partner may do you the world of good, on the other hand it could be that it is your relationship that isn't right, i think if you go on holiday with an open mind you will probably get your answer
Seems to me, you already know it's time when you posted this question. Talk to him how you feel. If it's a mistake, you'll just have to be prepared to live with it.
You have just answered the question,i f you need to ask it is time. Stop now, if you get back in the future make sure it is for the right reasons. (Not because you feel lost without your partner.


Good Luck whatever you do, relationships are hard.
maybe you need time away from this person. if you go back with each other then you know you meant to stay together.


but if not then you need to move on. when a relationship isn't comfortable or right those are signals that somethings wrong.


have a talk with this guy tell him how your feeling. maybe you two can work out this
It's time to break up, when the person has become emotionally unavailable and doesn't walk the talk. Needing space also means breaking up. It's better now than later.
Sounds to me like you already know the relationship is over. Just because you love someone doesn't mean you are meant to be together.
Well, if you really are in love with the person then knowing when to end the relationship can always be a bit of a nightmare question.





If you no longer are in love with the person then end it when its the best time for both of you, ideally. However, if it never seems to be the best time and you just want to get rid of the sod or sodess then send her a text message saying ';baby, we shared some great times, mostly when we were away from each other, but the time has come to mourn the passing of this shite relationship. Kregs, [InsertYourName]';





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If you have someone you dont care about then you obviously priortising your own life and showing scant disregard for someone your supposed to care enough about to be good to. If your selfish thoughts are more important than your partner than that partner doesnt need you and would do better off without you too.





';Regret is always a feeling everyone gets when ending a relationship with a potentially great person'; Perhaps you didnt do a great job in trying to preserve it. If you bothered to care more about him than your job or school than maybe you could of seen that, but i get that lot with female's, them thinking more so about themselves. Shame really, considering how great a catch i am.





Oh, sometimes when i look at myself in the mirror even i get the urge to touch myself!
When you question yourself, like you are now...thats the beginning of the end. Needing space is when you feel smothered by someone, or you have a busy life and you just need to focus more on school or a job more than you do a boyfriend. Needing to end it comes when the other person doesn't accept or understand that your space is important to you. Its not the end of the world. Regret is always a feeling everyone gets when ending a relationship woth a potentially great person. If you were meant to be with him, then you two WILL run into each other again in life. Me and my fiance broke up after 6 months and i thought it was the end. I broke up with him, and i regreted it. 4 months later, we met again and things were more calm and we both felt the same way we did when we first met. Now we have a daughter and are looking for marriage. SOmetimes it takes a lot longer than 4 months for this sort of thing to happen...but trust me, it does. I hope my advice was helpful. You know in your heart what you need to do.
when you look for excuses to be alone, cringe when they are on there way over, dont want to have sex with them the relationship is over
Go with your gut feeling if its wrong learn from it and keep on pushin
when being with them becomes a chore not a pleasure it's time to say bye bye
When you would rather be alone than to be with your significant other, then it's time to end it. If the thought of being alone for the rest of your life sounds better than being with him/her for the rest of your life, then you have your answer.
u see it coming depending on the relationship. i mean the attitude u give each other but for yr case, i think having feelings for someone or having that love for some one shouldn't just die like that. there cld be a reason why u feel this relationship is going no where but u still have a chance to bring it back to life. stop thinking negatively, find ways how u can ';sort it out';.