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My boyfriend broke up with me because he’s burnt out but wants to work on it and get back together in the future.
Relationship Stress / by anxietyfilledonut
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 July 24th, 2025
...See more Recently my boyfriend broke up with me, explaining that he needs time to himself because he’s tired of his job, friends, and having to maintain communication with people. He also said that he just hasn’t had time to himself in a very long time. I’ve dealt with depression my entire life, so to me this seems like he’s going through depression or just mental burn out. Despite these problems, he expressed to me that he wants to try and fix what’s going on in order to get back together because he doesn’t actually want to break up, he just doesn’t want to hurt me or the relationship any further. Furthermore, he wants to stay friends and keep in contact. But, neither of us can figure out what to do because the only problem is that he’s too exhausted in his own life to have a relationship with me (or anyone for that matter - including friendships.) He says he loves me and that he wants a future with me, which I wholeheartedly believe, but I can’t for the life of me figure out how to fix this. Is it even fixable? Are there things I can do or not do in order to mend our relationship? What do we do?
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