YOU NEED A BREAK......FROM US OR JUST

ME? Relationships are work.  Sometimes you feel like you have two jobs. Three if you have children. I'm ready to make this a FT gig. He's not? He's says that he loves me. We have been talking about OUR future. We've been together for more than a year. I'm almost 35 years old. I know what I want. He's older than me.  But HE needs more time. I'm tired of dating. I've been patient. He wants to make sure that I'm the one? So now you need a break? "Maybe he just needs some time before he proposes"?.... Yeah, I don't believe that either.

We've dated off and on for several years. This time it felt right. I always thought he might be the one. Even though my mother didn't. He was an established business man. I was starting a new career. We were both ambitious. He told me what he wanted in a wife. Nothing unreasonable. Dinner dates were like business deals. I was ready to enter negotiations. When you are mature adults, you should lay all of your cards on the table. I thought we were progressing. Then I received the email. It basically said he was taking a trip with some FRIENDS. He needed to clear his head. He wasn't sure where we were going? I didn't know how to respond. It was one thing to take a BREAK. It was another to take it for two weeks half around the world. I know men struggle with commitment. We have so few options. I hated waiting. He returned and as predicted, things were awkward. He told me he wanted to cool things down. "Maybe a little time apart would bring us closer". How?  I was crushed. And disappointed. I wanted to call him and curse him out, but decided not. I'm a southern LADY. He's over 40 and still LOOKING. I sent him an email. Simply stated; "I don't need MORE time apart, to know we shouldn't be together". Life is too short to never be FOUND.    Still single