Broke up LDR because I felt smothered, now regret it. Back to loneliness

As a 40 old who has been out of the dating scene for a while and feeling lonely I thought I was in a place to sustain a relationship. I met someone online and I thought it would be perfect because I’m in Europe and they are in Asia so I figured I could step back into dating with long distance.

Everything was great for a few weeks and then it got to the point where I felt like I was being smothered so I broke up with them. But the funny thing is looking back, he didn’t even do anything wrong. He just wanted to have a few phone calls a week and play some video games together maybe once a week. But at the time it felt like too much.

So now I go back into loneliness and I want to try another ldr but I’m afraid I will repeat my same mistakes.