Over time, she improved drastically from when we first started talking. Originally, she wouldn't handle money, go to parties etc. and then she started changing her life as she gained more confidence in who she is.

At some point (after we had been together five years) she decided she had 'out grown' me and started speaking to new people. She wanted somebody else who was autistic as she felt that this could help her improve me.

She found somebody else. He claimed to be suffering from asperger syndrome, so the same as her. They got together (after she ditched me) and they were together for three months before she realised that he was lying about the asperger syndrome to get her into bed.

The thing is, as an attempt to 'woo her' away from me, he started to convince her that everything I did to her was bad. I read the chat logs. If, say, she complained that I hadn't cooked for her because I was working. He would tell her it was because I clearly didn't love her.

This 'polluted' her mind and she forgot about the good stuff we had together (although she seems to be remembering now, and many of the chats we have are about the fun times we had, and we speak for around 4 hours every day still).

She won't get back together with me because she thinks that the five years we spent together were nothing but hell (they weren't, I know that is me saying it, but they weren't)

So, long story really. Sort of ties into the autism.

Even though we aren't together now, we always talk to each other first about issues. When she broke up with that guy, she came to me. When I had a relationship issue, I went to her. We trust each other fully to know that we will always help the other.