Thanks for your responses! Anita, I understand what you’re saying and I completely agree. I haven’t decided that I want to end the relationship because I necessarily want to explore with women, It was more something I kept thinking about along the way. I have struggled with your question for so long! Is this really what I want? And it isn’t an easy question to answer. At the end of the day I’ve realised that you need to listen to your gut and mine is telling me that it doesn’t feel right, regardless of sexual preference.

Inky, I don’t think it’s a situation where I want to explore and have him take me back afterwards. If he told me he wanted to be with another person I think I would feel relieved, and that’s how I know I need to end it.

Grenada, I really needed to be told that and I completely agree with you. I’ve accepted that I need to do it, but I’m still really struggling with the idea of hurting him. I know that I don’t want to enter another relationship for a while unless it’s an open one, but that is something I know he isn’t interested in.