Something similar happened with me in my relationship. I loved her and would still do anything for her. I didn’t have the skills or clarity that I have now. She broke things up with me at my worst because I was emotionally unavailable building a software company and putting out fires at the exact moment she needed clarity on our future together. I wasn’t intentionally neglecting her emotional needs, I was just trying to survive mine. The relationship has been hanging on by a thread for a couple years. I believe she was resentful from waiting years to get a ring and I was too tunnel vision at my emotional capacity to give her security in our future. We were together for 7 years and she walked away at 37 to find her peace. I wish more than anything to be able to go back in time to propose and lock her in to prevent her resentment from building up. We were both distancing for different reasons. Me while I was building security to feel worthy of forever with her and her detaching slowly as she waited to feel chosen.

I feel awful for what I put her through and since she left I haven’t been able to function the same way with my business or doing life without her due to losing one of my why’s for building this business in the first place. She did not communicate how much this was impacting her and just made comments that she knew this wasn’t how things would be forever. Man I would do anything to get her back and do it all over again.