I recommend you tell him to take a break from each other and sow your oats. Break it off. Give yourself freedom to date others and give him the freedom he thinks he wants.

He may come running back to you, jealous of the possibility of losing you. He may not come back at all.

But you will have released yourself. And if he comes back to you, sure that he can’t live without you, then you have the deep, true love that you are longing for.

You deserve that and not to be his back up plan or settled for.