How can I break up with my long distance relationship and still keep him as a friend?

Has anyone ever broken up with someone and ended up as real friends?


I love my boyfriend and I don't want to break up with him completely, I want us to still be friends.


Whats a good way to break up with someone that gets their feeling hurt easily (he's very sensitive) and still be able to talk to him often as friends?


I love him, I'm just not in love with him anymore, but I don't want to loose him.


We have a long distance relationship now and I don't want to loose him forever.How can I break up with my long distance relationship and still keep him as a friend?
';lets end our long distnace relationship, but still be friends';


';oh ok';


DONE PROBLEM SOLVEDHow can I break up with my long distance relationship and still keep him as a friend?
Next time you two are talking, let him know that your feeling have changed and you'd rather just be friends. Although you probably won't be friends right away, give him time to get over it, and then when he is ready for you two to start talking again (as just friends) let him come to you. But after breaking up with him, don't force the whole 'lets stay friends' thing.. Because that'll make it harder for him to get over you. Wait until he's ready. If it hurts him really bad, he may not want to stay friends. Which is understandable, some people just can;t do the whole friendship thing after a break up. Just be understanding, you don't want to make him hate you.
well the best thing you can do is tell him the truth . tell him how you do care about him, but the long distance is really becoming much more complicated then you thought but you still want to be friends because you don't want him completely out your life. when it comes down to it you might have to tell him about how your are not in love wit him but you do love him. If he truly loves you to he will accept how you feel..even though he might feel hurt ,mad or sad.





hope i helped :D
The hard truth is, you can't have it both ways. If he loves you, he will always love you and always want to rekindle that relationship. Being his friend just won't work. The best answer is to make it a clean break to allow the heat to die down. If you're lucky, you'll meet in a few years and laugh at it all. Only at that point will you be able to resurrect any kind of friendship.
People are different - and you may not have much control over how he is going to feel.


For me, when a girl breaks i off with me - that's it - can't be friends - I know that sounds horrible, but I just cannot go backwards in a relationship, it hurts too much. I know a lot of girls think that is really bad - but some of us are just wired that way - and there is nothing I can do to change that.


Short answer - there is probably nothing you can do or say to guarantee that you will not lose him as a friend.
tell him(look it aint working out and like i know we have this thing but tell him i want to be ur friend and hope nothing will come over us butits a long distance thing and i know there are other girls or boys for u and we both can still be friends) meow?
well you can start by saying exactly what you just said then be like i can understand if you neede time but i would really like for this to come back as friendship too. you really care for him just not hoe you once did b4
Tell him how you feel about the distance and then tell him that you want to separate for a while. Finally, ask him if you can still be friends.





Hope everything goes well for you and him! Hope this helps! Good luck and God Bless!
Well, I can tell you now it's not going to be that easy.. It takes time before you will be friends again, but it's possible... I can't tell you how, that's for you to figure out. Every person is different.
You can't have your cake and eat it too... thats just being selfish of you.





Either take him as your boyfriend/lover or don't take him at all. God.. how selfish of you to even ask to be his friend after this.
it's most probable that he might hate you if you say something,


but you have to tell him how you feel...


i can be hard,


but after telling him,


give him some space and then ask him to be your friend again...
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if hes sensitive then it seems like he'd still be your friend. just say you wanna be friends but you still love him. you just cant do the long distance thing. im sure he'll understand.
Tell him exactly how you are telling it in this question!!!
Explain how you feel
tell him what you just told us.