Girlfriend Wants a Break?
Recently my girlfriend of 2 and a half years asked if we could take a break for a month and get back together right after Christmas. I know that she's planning on going back to school sometime soon, and there are a lot of things going on in her life right now (the store she works at is dramatically increasing her hours for the holiday season, for instance). She assures me that this is in no way an attempt to break up with me, that she still loves me, and that it will make our relationship stronger. She even still wants to watch the new episode of Dexter every weekend over skype with me in the meantime. It seems innocent enough, and I want to believe her, but it's just so hard for me to think of this as a healthy thing. I feel like I've always been told that a break is the slow road to a break up. I want to believe that this isn't one of those cases, but I'm having trouble convincing myself. Am I freaking out over nothing or what?