Me and my boyfriend(well whatever you are when you take a break) have been going through a rough patch for a while(6 months).  We have a baby, and we have been together roughly 5 years. We had recently to an area where i was thriving in my work and he was not, so he was the stay at home parent.  we recently relocated back home to give him a chance to thrive but then the virus happened. He has been saying for a while he wants to work on his own identity and getting to a place where he is financially stable to provide for our family, and to stop being dependent on me for everything( friend, lover, provider, etc) where we lived we hadn’t been long  enough to make friends and all of our family was on the other side of the country. He feels like we need to continue to put distance between us, and to not focus on the negative parts of our relationship but to focus on ourselves and focus on strengthening areas that work and to let the negativity breathe for a while. We had talked about this, but then we said it would only be a temporary thing like a couple days here and there since we are living with his grandparents after our relocation( which has caused issues for us as well). i recently visited my sister’s to give his grandparents some peace from having a toddler running around but he feels that i should stay with my sister and he should stay with his brother until we get to a place where we can let the negative situation air out. ( Negative situation is us having the same arguments over and over). He does odd jobs when he can,and recently there had been an uptick and i would like him home more, because that is what i am used to, so adjusting to his absences has been hard, causing arguments about how much time he spends away from home. ( these are the arguments he wants to avoid)He wants to work as much as he can and get back on his feet, without having to depend on me. He hasn’t  said if we will get back together he just says he wants to focus on working and himself. he wants to work without having to  worry about if he is spending enough time with me (alone without the baby). Since we  have been on the break We still talk of course, and we still both know that when everything is good we work great together, but it scares me that he feels like this separation doesn’t have a timeline. He just wants to use this time to focus on himself since i will be off of work from a couple months. He  says all that he wants me to do is to give him this time to get back to himself, since he has been the stay at home dad for 2 years.  I am having a hard time accepting this separation especially since i don’t know how long and i love him and don’t want this to turn into a full blown breakup. ( hopefully this makes sense)