Dear Michael,
Your situation was much more involved than the one I have been dealing with; yet I can certainly correlate some feelings I share with what you are presently going through. I wanted to first express my apathy for the pain in which you are feeling, and secondly let you know that it is nothing you did wrong.
I knew the man I was dating for three years prior to becoming romantically involved; I knew (and accepted) two things that many women could not; he had a complicated emergency services schedule and he had a child. We had so many good laughs and a lot of fun during our time together, although the relationship was relatively short-lived.

One day, he told me that he did not see anything long-term with me and that things needed to end sooner rather than later; I had done everything I could to prove that I would support him in every aspect and be a perfect female role-model for his child.

What makes you much stronger than myself is that you gave her space; I have bombarded him with question after question as to what happened and “could I have prevented this.”
The truth is, even if you were to ask her, she would not be able to articulate an answer. Sometimes people make decisions on feelings that even they cannot explain; it is so hard for those that were deeply involved with them.
The way I figure it, is that the person who could not answer those questions of “why,” will be replaced by someone that one day you will look at and say “now I know why me and ____ did not work out.”

You sound like the man of my dreams Michael; stop being so hard on yourself. She could not have picked a better man to help show her that not all men are like the ones that she had dealt with previously in her life.

Keep your head up 🙂