What should i do?

Hi,

My story is really quite similar to most of the threads i've read on this site, in truth this gave me hope that everything my (ex)boyfriend has said to me might only be the depression talking....

Few months ago he told me there was only me and that he felt i was the one. At the time he was away on deployment, ever since he came home he's been going down hill, 2 months on now, yesterday he said that he needs to be alone and that he can't deal with being in a relationship at the moment but that somewhere inside he still loves me.

He helped me pack up all my things in our apartment and now it's all at my parents house.

I know it's so early, i just don't know if it would be helpful to suggest that we just see each other every now and then, now that we're not living together? We've been together 2 years, He said he likes seeing me but he can't be in a relationship cause he needs to sort his head out.

I'm trying to figure out what it's like from his point of view, and whether suggesting the above would be something that would be a) helpful to him and feeling love for me again, and b) whether he would be up for this.

Help...

Thank you for your reply! Yes, he is in the navy and hates it. He's pretty convinced it's the cause of this low he's going through, but of coarse it's effecting how whole life.

I'm just having trouble giving him space, but still letting him know i want to be with him if he ever feels the same.

He's seeing someone (i get the terms mixed up) a psychiatrist... the one that talks through emotions and doesn't prescribe drugs.. before we broke up we discussed that he was going to go see a psychologist and start medication and then continue on with both the medication and the therapy sessions..

If one does go on medication, how long normally does it take for the medication to work and emotions to come back - i understand there's probably no rule to this and every case is different, but generally speaking.. how does one start to get better.. and how do emotions come back?

Then too how do emotions come back to people? Does an emotion change even if it's not felt? i'm so confused as to how he can really love me and not want to be with me, but not be able to feel it... even if this depression dies down.. does the emotion come back as it was? If i don't contact him for some time how will that emotion be the same? It's not an active love because he can't feel it...

I just feel so robbed of my relationship and my love.

Thanks again..