Single men

Have just broken up with my boyfriend of 5 months. Everything was going fine then last week it was over, the weekend before was wonderful.

We are both mature age. He is 41 and I'm 51. The age difference was not the problem it was his committment to work (very stressful and very long hours) and deciding that he was better of a single guy because his work load had been increased on him and there had been dramas also at work with massive pressures.

Unfortunately I was having a bad week attending a funeral and asked him if he could come around on night to give me a hug, he said no. This was the Wednesday and on the Friday it was over.

I knew his work pressures, except didn't know about the dramas that week until he later told me. I would call message him during the day just to say hi and that I loved him, not many, 1 or 2.

He has been divorced and has had a couple of relationships but not in a relationship for the past 5 years. He has a close network of good friends who are his social outlet. I was the first person he had actually taken to meet these friends. We'd also spent time with his children and went to his family reunion together. Now it's over just so quickly.

Any guys out there who may relate to striving in your career and how you find going into a relationship after being a bachelor for a few years.

His friends have hinted that he has been badly hurt in the past and not to make him feel trapped if I don't want to loose him. I was so worried about doing something wrong and loosing him. He is a beautiful man. Heartache since last week has been intense. He has closed himself off from me.

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