Please someone give me good advice for my relationship ****Desperate*****?

hello I'm 20 years old (and will be 21 in 6 months yay) and I've been in this relationship with my boy friend for a little over a year (a year and one month) he's funny, smart and I find him attractive but I feel like I need to take a break a lot of people say when you take a break it really means breaking up. but i feel like I should explore more into the world date other people but at the same time it feels like im making a big mistake i don't know what to do I want to take a break but I dont want to lose him. please someone give me advise im just a 20 year old woman and this prob has been stressing me out for sometimePlease someone give me good advice for my relationship ****Desperate*****?
I think it is breaking up when you take a break unless it's mutual. You don't expect him to wait around for you so you have to think he might find someone else. You need to come to a decision together if you want him to remain in your life. Maybe the solution is that you both date other people but still date each other. Already being together exclusively for a year will make this hard but it could also be a good thing. A good question to ask yourself is, will you regret not taking this break a year from now or five years from now if it lasts that long. Don't stay in a relationship when this feeling keeps popping up. You can't ignore it and if you do you are not doing yourself or him any favors. I have seen lots of people ';take a break'; and get back together and get married. I think you should do it and just explain to him that you can't shake the notion so you have to try it. You are really young and it would be a shame for you to not experience the world or other people if that's what you want. But you have to let him go to experience the same and realize, like another person said, that you may lose him for good.Please someone give me good advice for my relationship ****Desperate*****?
You're going to have to be okay with the fact that you will probably lose him. Guys don't like being toyed with, and they get impatient.
I would suggest that you really examine how you feel about your boyfriend. It would be unfair to suspend him from your life while you investigate whether the ';grass is greener on the other side';. No doubt you would feel confused and upset if he did this to you?





If you have been with him for over a year I would presume that he is also a good friend? If so you need to talk with him and discuss your feelings. If you want to go and see what the rest of the world is all about, maybe he isn't the one for you?





You'll definitely know this once you have talked to him though...good luck.
Hi Misa, Maybe write down a list of pros and cons. Pros are good things about staying with your boyfriend. Cons being the things you will miss that you want to do if you stay with him. At least this way it will all be in front of you on paper and you can through it and weigh it all up. Just be honest with your bf and don't play games with him. If you want to break up, then do it. Just don't expect him to be there waiting if you do. He may find someone else, or may not have you back because of his ego, us blokes are stupid like that, lol. But this is the risk you have to take if you want to experience other things. I hope this helps.