Except for my marriage, I haven’t had a break up since I was 20. I’ve been dating a man for just five months now. We didn’t see each other often and he knew that I was dating otherwise. It seemed a good fit because he didn’t seem to want much more than seeing each other every week and a half or so. Well yesterday he changed his mind and said he wasn’t good with me seeing other people but he didn’t want to give any more than he was. He broke up with me.

I’ve been a mess all day. How do people do this? It’s not like he was the perfect guy for me, and I don’t think it ever would have gone much further, but I’m so sad. He was a nice guy and I really enjoyed my time with him. I don’t blame him for his decision, he has to do what was right for him but he didn’t give me a chance to do anything different and I feel so terrible. Maybe I get attached to people too easily. This just hurts so much.