I broke up with him to stop hurting both of us.

I’ve been in a relationship with my long-distance boyfriend for the past three years. I love him very much, but I’ve realized that I need to break up with him.

My mental health hasn’t been good lately, and I’m under a lot of academic pressure. During this time, I feel like I need constant emotional support and someone who can give me time so I can share what I’m going through. But he’s in another country, trying to survive on his own without his family, and I don’t want to keep pressuring him by asking for more time or attention.

I’m not blaming him at all. It’s not his fault that he can’t always be there for me the way I need right now. I just don’t want to put him in a difficult situation because of me.

So I made a really tough decision that we should break up. I know he might hate me for this, but I don’t feel like I have any other option.

I’m writing this here because I don’t really have anyone I can share my feelings with, and I just needed to let it out somewhere.

I just hope one day he understands that I let him go not because I stopped loving him, but because I loved him enough not to make him carry my pain.