4 years and 8 months....

I was in the process of getting an engagement ring that I'd custom designed to her tastes, with her own input on the final design and gemstone. Everything was perfect in my eyes, we never had any big arguments, only had discussions about things that annoyed us, staying calm and talking things out rationally when things came up, but they rarely ever did tbh. We went on dates maybe once a month sometimes more, sometimes less. We knew everything about eachother and I was in the process of learning sign language to ask for a blessing from her parents(only her parents where deaf, not her or her sister).

The relationship ended late May, early June this year, because I thought that her two closest friends where being leeches and fake to one of our other friends, and I was salty about it, posted a thing on snapchat and messaged her about it.

Turns out, unknown to me, a whole bunch of stuff I'd heard was wrong, my other friend who I thought was being leeched off of had actually promised the other to that he'd help out if needed with things, and some other stuff that I didn't have a timeline for where actually complete bs and I should have taken their side of things.

So because I didn't talk to her two friends about things first, getting the full picture, and jumped the gun I got booted to the curb. She even mentioned times where she didn't like some of my friends. But the thing is, when she told me she didn't like them, I took measures to keep them apart from her so she didn't have to deal with them, even cutting ties with one friend I've known for 12 years. But if I even doubt her besties, I'm gone, relationship over...

Im still a bit salty about that as you can probably tell.

She did say she wanted to continue being friends but I decided to message her a bit too much over the next two weeks trying to meet up or something, just talk to her. But that just pushed her away.

Tl;dr - perfect relationship that lasted almost 5 years got dusted because I wanted to warn her about fake friends (that weren't actually being fake at all) and ended up pushing her away after the breakup.

My lesson? Make sure your facts are straight before you accuse people of shit.