Since Monday me and my girlfriend have split up. We have been together for about 8.5 years both young and our first relationship. Since 2022 it has been long distance. The plan was that I will try to check if it was better back home and we both agreed to go long distance, in December we decided to move late 2024 again to her country and I will make more money and save up while being in my country in the meantime. We both had some troubles when we were apart with communication but we always worked things out and fixed it. We had a similar almost break up in 2022 when I left but decided to stay together but still we loved each other so much not let go. So on Monday we broke up after one long call crying our tears out. I know she is my soulmate and she loves me so much but it was her choice to break up. I asked her twice if this is what you want we need to do it and break up. She is studying for and and half years more and she said she need space to figure out what she wants in life and was tired of everything. I told her I want a future with her where we finally can buy a house together because deep inside it is what I want with her. But she rejected this and told me the best thing to do for now is break up. We both agreed to go in no contact for 6 months and call and see how we are and she told me if we will be back together later in life we will be stronger than ever and this break up doesn't have to be forever... I hope we still can ... I am desperate I talked to her every day and it sucks to not be with her. Will the pain stop ??😭 I can't eat normal live normal anymore I don't have any more motivation in life after what happened. We are both 28 years old. In my head I hope there will be a future for us later in life, but it's feels like it's not worth it to think this and maybe I need to let her go forever.. to process this better. (Sorry english is not my first language)