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Advice for partner losing feelings

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Foxtroll · 08/09/2025 12:16

I 21M have been in a relationship for 9 months with my gf 20F we have had a really good relationship for about 7 month until I kinda became slightly toxic and too needy in the relationship, wanting to call every night and hang out all the time. Before it would have been fine and it was what we normally did at the start but now we both have jobs and are back in school we just didn’t have the time to do all that. I sacrificed a lot of myself and my time to try to do as much as possible and it felt like I couldn’t be happy with out her and i needed to be all the time. We both agree that I have not been the best but we both wanted it to work. We took a small break trying to avoid talking to much and focus on ourselves for a bit for the last 2 weeks. It’s been working but my gf called earlier and wanted to talk how she has lost a bit of feelings and kind of just not want to talk anymore that much. We almost ended it like mature people but we came up with a solution to kind of go no to little contact with dates that we both plan together for every weekend to every other weekend to kinda get the spark back and not do to much. We both very much want it to work out but I feel like I kinda ruined it and did to much and it’s to late. I am willing to give her this space and I just want some advice on how to approach this further. Please don’t just say just end it, it’s to late. I have made a commitment to change and it just means I have to win her back somehow.

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HungryWater · 08/09/2025 12:20

It's not 'too late' to end it. You're barely out of your teens, and your're not 'partners', you're people who've been dating for a few months, not very happily. . Relationships aren't meant to be this hard. Just end it and be single for a while.

Woompund · 08/09/2025 12:21

You can't win someone back if they have lost feelings. Time to let go.

EuclidianGeometryFan · 08/09/2025 15:31

I am willing to give her this space
Good. Stick to the plan of no contact between weekly dates

and I just want some advice on how to approach this further.
You don't do anything else. Back off, don't contact her, and stick to the plan. There is nothing else you can do.

Please don’t just say just end it, it’s to late.
It is never too late to change your mind.

I have made a commitment to change
Good, now stick to it. Stop being needy, stop contacting her outside of the agreed plan.

and it just means I have to win her back somehow.
She is not a "prize" that you "win". That is fantasy romance fiction stuff. Real life is not like that.
She is an independent adult with her own view and opinions.

If you are not happy with the boundaries that she has put in place, i.e. that you don't contact her outside of agreed dates, then the only other option is for you to end it.

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