I'm 27 years old and I didn't have my first girlfriend until I was 26. It started out good but went bad quick and all we did was argue. We broke up and I gave it sometime to start looking again then I met a girl who changed my world. I always had in my mind the kind of person I wanted to be with and the perfect girl I wanted and I found her. She was incredibly beautiful inside and out, intelligent, funny, kind, easy going and honest. We took things slow and I waited 4 months before asking her to be my girlfriend and even waited that long to kiss her. I was happier than I had ever been before. We had an incredible amount of respect and trust for each other. I opened up to her and told her things I never told anyone else. I trusted her completely. She was in the Navy and she found out she was going to be transferred across the country. It was scary but I was either prepared to go with her and if she wasn't ready for that then I was ready to wait the 2 years for her that she'd be gone. I came to love her deeply. I knew our feelings for each other weren't on the same level yet and I was okay with that. That didn't make me love her any less. Overtime I could tell she wasn't as happy as she was when we first started dating. We talked about it and she said with her having to move she didn't feel a long distance relationship would work because she wouldn't want to be away from me and I couldn't go because I had just gotten a really good job and we weren't at the living together stage. She also felt we weren't progressing in our relationship. She wanted to end our relationship and as much as I hated to do it I agreed because I loved her and wouldn't try and keep her in something she wasn't happy with. It's been a few months since we broke up and we're still friends as we told each other we'd always be there for one another no matter what. But I have been in so much pain I've never felt worse in my life. There's no one I want more than her. I'd give up my life for hers because she is the love of my life. We've talked a few times about us breaking up and she doesn't want to try again. It hurts so much but I'm not angry with her in anyway. I hope she finds someone who will make her the happiest person in the world and treat her the way she deserves as much as I wish that person was me I know it won't be.