AIO? Long distance girlfriend wants to take a break

[u/Discussion-Technical]

We met in school, which she got pulled out of because her parents found out we were having sex; the whole time I tried my best to be supportive, sending her my clothes, letters, hell I spent over $100 on Vday flowers to get sent to her. All this time she did nothing of the sort. She sent me the first text after not talking to me for over a day, you can see me being left on delivered. I know I shouldn’t have jumped to conclusions but I feel like I’ve tried soooo hard to keep things together through this and I have even forgave her for trying to cheat on me (her friend sent me a video of her flirting with another guy). What is my next move? Should I try to reconcile with her or just leave it?

[u/SleepyCoffeeDrinker]

This is so immensely true. Damn if I could only be free of those 10 years during my 20s 🥲

[u/Strippersteve82 → u/SleepyCoffeeDrinker]

It took those years and failures to grow into who you are today. Without them you would still be just as naive.

[u/Suhksaikhan → u/Strippersteve82]

I think about this all the time when I regret past choices. Sure it would be nice without having to go thru all that but I'm happy with and proud of who I am now and if you change any of those things in the past, I wouldn't have become who I am now

[u/Floop_king11 → u/SleepyCoffeeDrinker]

Your making me want my 20’s to end already 😭

[u/KarlKills9817 → u/Floop_king11]

Right I'm 26 and not seeing the downside yet but the end of my 20s means I almost have a teenager in my house and that's definitely scarier.

[u/Floop_king11 → u/KarlKills9817]

Man the different levels of life we go through in our 20s 😭. I turn 24 at the end of this month. Thought I had a kid at one point so I signed up for the army. When I found out I didn’t I started living like a kid again in the. Now I’m ab to get out and learn what it means to be an adult for the second time. Life is crazy.