I 24F got broken up last night but my 23F girlfriend because she's overwhelmed by everything, suddenly the next morning she wants me back. Do I go back to her?
Me and my girlfriend got together during our final year, and we have been dating for almost 2 years. And once the both of us started being actual working class adults. Things overwhelmed us and it did rock and tested our relationship a lot.
I admit I was high key avoidant at the start of the relationship but eventually turned things around by making a lot of changes in my communication style as my girlfriend/ex(?) places a lot of emphasis on communication. Due to the stress of her workplace and the demands in her personal life from family, she admitted to me that she felt empty in this relationship ever since she started working full time and felt like she couldn't commit to the relationship.
For added contexts, we live in a religious conservative country so only our close friends know of our relationship. So I also understand the stress of needing to constantly hide each other from our respective families etc. What I couldn't accept is the fact that she uses that to end our relationship, but I still went along with what she asked for because I am just tired of pulling back and fourth when I have been patient with her pulling away from me for almost 4 months.
It didn't help the fact that the break up happened a day before one of my finals for an additional subject, and now both my heart and my head are a total mess. And all of a sudden she came back to me in the morning and is asking for a 2nd chance, I want to take her back but at the same time I don't know how to navigate a relationship where one side is overwhelmed by the sudden realities of being in the working class as I am also dealing with said stress as well (were both one year out of uni).
I am genuinely at a lost here, and I am just curious to see what you guys would do in you were in a similar situation.