Have you ever split up with a long term partner and then regretted it?

[YetAnotherUN]

Just that really. I split up with partner and am now looking for new accommodation. There are many reasons for the decision but equally there are some reasons to stay. I know one of those reasons is because "better the devil you know" and I hate change and causing all this pain. But there is just something in me compelling me forward to go. Anyway, has anyone split up with a partner who really wasn't awful but the spark was gone? How did you make up your mind between going or staying in the end? Did you regret your decision?

Yes. I split with someone after two years together. We didn't live together and it just felt like the romantic spark had gone. We were best friends. We broke up at my choice and it was the right thing to do.
I started missing him and his friendship so much and spent a long time unhappily single. I came to think I'd made a terrible mistake. I asked him to try again and he said no.

He met someone else and is now happily married. I was gutted when I heard he was getting married. He was the one that got away.

There is a great happy ending for me though. Shortly afterwards, I met the absolute perfect man for me. DH is my absolute soulmate and I can now look back and realise that fate really does happen.

I split from my now H, regretted it, got back with him & got married. Now I wish I had held string & forged forward. I think we break up with people for good reasons but being alone can make us pine for them & only remember the good. Rose-tinted glasses & all that ...

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Thanks both for your comments. You are right, there are many reasons I've come to this decision - having tried several times over the years to make it work - but that doesn't mean that I am not scared stiff of this and in my weaker moments trying to convince myself that I can change - we can change - to make it work. Truth is, I don't want to change. And I don't want him to change. Sad reality is, I just don't want him :( I wish this wasn't the case and I've spent years trying to convince myself otherwise, to no avail. He is such a sweet lovely man and I hate myself for myself doing this.

Well it's nice that you met a 'sweet lovely man.' That, in itself, is a success. If you can ride out this storm, you might be able to one day look back fondly on the good days while you're enjoying life with your future beau.

Fear will hold you back from everything in life. And then it’s overf

Yes. I was 22, I am now 31 and s regret my decision..

Yes Huge mistake and regret the mess i created sadly it's to late to fix it now....wish i could go back hmmm

Yes I do have regrets but it needed to be done and I'm better for it.

Hindsight is 20:20 but the grass is always greener and we all look back with rose-tinted glasses...my aim is more than to use as many platitudes as I can in one sentence! I think, based on my experience of this, break-ups do happen for a reason. When we regret them, we're not in them. We're not the person who ended them. So we're imagining the relationship as we are now instead of how we were then.