I’m struggling to break ties with my girlfriend of 3 years. She’s a great woman she’s very caring of her son from a previous marriage (11 M) and is co-parenting with her ex husband. I never thought I would want to have a child of my own but now 2 years into the relationship my mind has shifted to maybe wanting kids one day. She said she would have kids for me but I want someone who would be excited to take on that journey with me. I also feel I want to provide for my family financially and I worked really hard this year to make that happen but I fell short of my goals. So I would need to put off kids for longer and her being 39 means there is not a lot of time for us.

She is very financial stable and makes 6 figures where I only make around 60k a year.

The other issue I have is I feel I have sacrificed my goals and dreams to be in this relationship & am having a hard time finding balance managing it all.

In my heart I want to break up but I am struggling to find the courage & think I may not find anyone better.

TLDR: Having a hard time breaking up with girlfriend life goals don’t align & I feel I’ve sacrifice my dreams and goals.