For any who need some kind of a backstory, it can be read here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/relationships/comments/1swra1/update_my_36_m_gf_35_f_is_getting_cold_feet_about/

Yesterday was D-Day. After spending one last night together, we, along with her brother, moved everything from her place into storage. To say it was disturbing would be an understatement. We were supposed to go have lunch after it was done, but she backed out and said she was going to stay at her place with her brother so he could fix a door knob that has been wonky.

I asked her if there was anything else she wanted to tell me now. For a day or two, I had been thinking that she was waiting to have everything gone before she would tell me it was really over, in case things got too emotional. I figured with her brother there, with everything out of her place,she would feel safe enough to say it. I asked her if there was anything else she wanted to tell me before I left, but she didn’t. We said our goodbye, kissed and hugged, and that was it.

I spent the rest of the day organizing my storage unit, forced myself to eat lunch, and picked up my kids to spend the evening with them. If it wasn’t for the fact that I saw them yesterday, I probably would have just lied down and covered myself with blankets.

I am not here about advice on what to do. So many people have told me what to do that my head is swimming. What I’m here for is words of hope from others that have been in a similar situation, and had things work out. I know that living together so soon was an unplanned mistake. That I should have left that night and stayed with my sister. But I can’t change that now. All I have to go on is that my GF wants to step back and take it easy. Not break up. Not see other people. Just go back to the way things were before living together. After the emotional rollercoaster we both have gone through, I know it will be awhile before that can happen, but I want to believe that it will. She’s a very honest person and I believe her. I know she just left a suffocating marriage last year, has other family issues ongoing right now too. I want to believe that when she’s had the time to clear her head, she’ll come around. I don’t expect, nor would I even accept an offer, to move back. But I do hope we can go back to being the happy couple we were before this happened.

So has anyone here lived with someone, moved away or asked their SO to move out because they felt things were moving too fast or something similar, and been able to move forward with their relationship to a happy point again? If you have, I could really use some kind words right now.

tl;dr: Has anyone been able to move forward with their relationship after living with their SO and been happy?