My partner and I have been together for a few months now and I began to get suspicions he was struggling to accept his sexuality. We spoke about this and he did say he has doubts occasionally in his sexuality and that being straight would be easier.

We then spoke about the topic again two days ago and I told him that I want us to take a break in the relationship but remain friends so he can focus on getting support and exploring these things without having the pressure of a relationship on the go as well due to him knowing I was feeling unhappy recently due to him withdrawing and speaking with me less and not giving me much time. During this conversation he began to open up and said that ever since he found out his sexuality he has became depressed and lost a lot of confidence in himself and struggles to socialise and feels isolated and that I was his only happiness alongside experiencing some very serious thoughts.

We've planned that I will support him and be there for him through this and that we won't take a break in contact and we will still meet up and chat to try and help him feel less isolated. He's also allowed for me to refer him to a support service and they've been in contact with him and he has an appointment next week.

He's struggling to understand why I've asked for us to take this break in the relationship if I'm still going to be around to support him. My Reasoning for this is that because he needs to work on his acceptance of his sexuality and also understand what these doubts are and if they are genuine, I feel he will be able to do that a lot more effectively without being in a relationship. I also said it takes the pressure off both of us as this relationship wasn't in a healthy place and leaving it how it was which he wanted to do wasn't going to end in a good way and this allows us to both work on ourselves as we both see and want a future together.

i feel absolutely awful in myself for having us take a break in the relationship, but by doing so, he has opened up to me about these struggles in detail and now has an appointment to begin to get some support with these things which he said he didn't know how to go about getting before.

Am I doing the right thing? Do you have any advice on next steps?