tonight my girlfriend of 2 years (we are both 21 and currently going to college), said she didn't love me as a boyfriend anymore but only as a friend. she said she doesn't know why she doesn't love me like that anymore, and we have both been under a lot of stress lately with various relationship problems, for instance we haven't had sex in 5 weeks, when we normally have it like 4-5 times a week. but mostly, she decided she didn't want to live in an apartment with me because of my social problems. meaning, she would want to have friends over and i have social anxiety so she feels that I would isolate her, even though I told her that I would try to make an effort to be more social, and have shown improvement in other areas of my social life lately but i still have really bad problems. but to give you background on my social anxieties: i have fear of groups, so I don't have many friends that I hang out with and am in my dorm room most of the time preferring to be alone, I don't drink or smoke weed and don't engage in many social activities or experiences, and I think this really bothered her. even though i tried to be okay with her doing social things without me. but she said she wanted to experience those things with me. and i have said that i am trying to get better but it is too late. I personally feel that she should love me even with my problems, but I am trying to understand how this would make her feel, and how my problems would affect her.
but the week turned really shitty since she said she didn't want to live in an apartment with me and she got more distant and we had other various problems, me being jealous of her hanging out with another guy who she was hanging out with more than me, etc. And then tonight, she said she didn't love me as a boyfriend anymore but only as a friend. So i broke up with her because i won't be with someone who says they don't love me as a boyfriend but only as a friend. she says that she doesn't know why she feels like this and that she hates herself for it. but i know it is because of my social problems and that kills me, that my issues could have caused this.
but we made a deal. i broke up with her, and she is going to see how she feels about me when she actually has lost me as a boyfriend and since we won't be seeing each other much anymore (we go to school together so we will still see each other in passing), and if her feelings were just because of the stress or whatever then she says she will know why she felt the way she felt, or they possibly could return to normal once she is less stressed, less confused, and has been away from me for a bit. and if just after a while of not being together she loves me the way she used to I told her that I would get back with her because I truly love her. and we left it at that basically.
i know that my social anxieties caused her to be distant but i'm wondering what I can do now to get her back. i know you can't make someone love you but i don't know what else to do.
what can/should I do to improve my problem and to get my girl back? what can I do to try to be more social?
and lastly, should I go try to get other girls? My friend suggests that me going out with other girls might even help get my girlfriend back, do you recommend that? but my friend just suggests this, I could never do this because I don't want to and I wouldn't want her to see anyone else right now either. thank you for the help
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