A male friend has asked me for relationship advice, I am poor at this sort of thing and all my own relationships went way past their expiry date because I don't like hurting people.
He's been in a relationship with a woman since September last year, they're both 35. He has no plans to settle down long term, does not want a family, his girlfriend says she doesn't want kids but he's not convinced by this and she keeps asking him to dispense with condoms.
They don't live close to each other but she lives in his old uni town that he goes to several times a month, he sees her for a few days most weeks and has told her he's no plans to move there.
He thinks the relationship has run its course and was just about to end it when she had a health scare which turned out to be nothing but then her sister was diagnosed with a terminal illness and expected to die within 6 months. He felt too bad to leave and thought he'd stick it out.
Hes now realising that there will be further events that make it hard to leave - sisters death, then mourning, then christmas, then her birthday, etc, etc. He also thinks she does want kids and he's wasting her time.
So, what does he do? I'd imagine she knows how he feels unless she's really distracted, he's already seeing her less than he used to and no longer stays at her house if he's visiting friends rather than her. I wonder if he's hoping she'll dump him.
Does he just tell her and leave? Will there ever be a good time?