Sorry in advance for the long post. I'm just not sure what to do right now.
So this thread is more Dating Gaf than it is Relationship Gaf, yeah? Couldn't find a Relationship-Age OT though, so I'm going to ask here anyway, because I'm really frustrated and upset, and need to vent / get some advice.
So my girlfriend and I had (have?) been dating for almost 6 months. Things were going great right from the start. We hung out multiple times a week, were constantly texting, always just had a lot of fun. There was never any trouble in the relationship, or problems, or arguments, or anything like that. We were extremely open with each other about everything, and it was great! It was the happiest I had ever been.
About a month, maybe a month and a half ago, she had to move back home due to not having a job and thus, being unable to pay rent. So she moved back in to her parents' house about 30-40 minutes away from me, and started working at a factory to get some money while looking for a full-time job (as we've both just graduated). Everything was still good though! We'd take turns visiting each other every weekend, often spend a day or 2 at each others houses at a time since we could only see each other on weekends. We still texted constantly every single day, though, still no problems.
2 weeks ago, we had plans to hang out at her place on the Friday. We had last seen each other the Sunday beforehand. On the Wednesday, we were making plans for what we were gonna do Friday, again, everything normal. On the Thursday, again still talking and making plans. But then, later on Thursday, she asks if we could hang at my place on Sunday instead, because she couldn't get her parent's car for Friday. I told her it was no problem, I would come to her Friday. She told me that it would be better if she came to me, because we need to talk.
My heart sunk, of course.
I ended up going to see her the next day, and we talked. She said we needed to break up. Every answer she gave to questions I asked ("What happened?", "When did you start feeling like this?", etc) was "I don't know". She couldn't seem to really give me any straight answers. She told me when we had hung out the Sunday before, everything was fine, and breaking up wasn't even a thought in the back of her mind at all. Hell we had still had sex and everything that day. And we had still been talking constantly since then too.
Her reasoning eventually seemed to boil down to "There's a lot going on in my life, too much to think about a relationship at the moment", "I've never seen a successful relationship, so I don't want to get further in and THEN have things end", and "I'm not sure if I'll end up loving you".
The first thing I don't understand... it seems like being in a tough spot in life is why you would WANT someone to talk to and all that, not a time to throw your best friend out of your life. The second reason... I mean, I don't think she HAS seen a successful relationship, what with parents divorcing and friends breaking up, so I guess there's that. The third reason... I just don't know.
I asked her what was wrong with what we had going on: just being extremely good, if not best friends, who hung out all the time and also got to have sex and other relationship things. She said there was nothing wrong with it, and that she really enjoyed being friends with me and that everything had been great until the thought of breaking up with me had entered her mind a day or two prior. And that she still wanted to be extremely good friends with me because she really enjoyed our friendship. But just that she didn't feel like she could be in a relationship for a while until her life got sorted out, and so she didn't want any sex / kissing / whatever until then. She told me that I don't need to hold out for her, and that if I want to find someone else so that I could "get it in" (her words, not mine), she doesn't mind. She even said at the end, "so just to summarize; we're on a break for the moment. But I still want to talk and be friends and eventually hang out!"
It's kinda confused the fuck out of me, and I don't know what to do. I mean, I don't know what I've done wrong, if anything, or how to fix it, but I just feel like theres something she's not telling me, and I don't know what. We still talk every few days, and it's not just a one-sided thing, she initiates the conversation some days too. But it's been slowly dying out. We still have plans to go away to Montreal at the end of the month for Osheaga (her, I, and a mutual friend that I met through her), so things aren't completely broken off.
The thing is, I was on Tinder for the past few days just for fun. One of the profiles I cam across was hers. So I don't know if she had been lying ot me or what. She's not the type to lie about that sort of thing. But I genuinely have no idea what the hell is going on, or what to do.
Any advice GAF?