How can I break up with my girlfriend without devastating her?

We've been together for 5 years and I still love her, but feel that my growth is limited with her. She's my first girlfriend, so I haven't experienced a relationship with anybody else and I don't think it's good for my psychological health to limit myself like this. I want to be free to branch out and start a new path. I don't think I could just say this to her. She's very attached to me.How can I break up with my girlfriend without devastating her?
Be a dick till she leaves you.How can I break up with my girlfriend without devastating her?
Well tell her how you feel first... if you still love her then you shouldn't leave her. Try something different suggest an open relationship but don't tell her how things are going with the other girls just let her know you want to see whats out there but you still love her. She should see other men also, it might be good for a change for being with the same relationship for so long. And if she doesn't like that idea then you are just going to have to be honest and tell her how you feel, and if it's meant to be then you will meet again in the future.
If she's very attached, there's no way for you to break up with her without devastating her. It's inevitable. But let her down as gently as you can, if you feel like you really have to break up with her. If you still love her and care about her enough to worry about this, think about it again, if you really want to break up with her.
gently tell her exactly what you just wrote above. A girl doesn't want to hear some fake ****. Just tell her and say that you just need some time to see other people and make sure that you are making the right decision upon staying with her.
Ya gotta say it sometime. It's not good for your psychological health to keep this from her anyway. So do it!





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You should tell her this:





';You know that I love you, but this is the first serious relationship I've been in. I think we should break up. We'll never know if it's truly true love if we don't date other people. If it's true, we won't feel the same with anyone else, but I think we should at least take the chance.';





Or tell her what you said in your details. Gently, leaving out a few details.





Don't say take a break because then she'll think that you want to date later.