Girlfriend said she no longer has the time for me
So here is my story. Been with this girl for about 20 months now, people say we are the happiest couple they have ever met. We always look forward to seeing each other and love one another very much. Anyway my girlfriend is often very stressed with work and has 2 kids, so we generally only get to see one another a couple of times a week.
About two months ago, that frequency started to drop, sometimes I was seeing her only once a week, sometimes once a fortnight. She had made comments in passing the last few weeks saying "I've hardly seen you" but as I was cool with not seeing her as often, as I knew she was busy at work, I thought she wasnt too bothered either.
Anyway about one month ago she hardly texted me one week and I asked her if something was wrong to which she took ages to reply but basically said she was just stressed with work. I didn't buy this explanation so I asked to see her to talk to her but when she came round things were totally normal we seemed really happy. I just put it down to work stress. Last weekend we attended a wedding and both had a really good time and enjoyed each others company. However the texts almost stopped this week and we had a chat on the phone last night. She feels that she just doesn't have time for a boyfriend anymore because of work and her kids and because of this she feels our relationship hasn't progressed as she had hoped. She just feels it isn't working anymore and that we are not spending the same quality time that we used to together. She said that she just wants to be single and be with her kids, who I know are incredibly important to her, however she did say she is really going to miss me. She said that shes not happy and that she wants to end the relationship. I had no other choice but to agree.
However a couple of hours later I decided that I wasn't going to let go of what only about two months ago was a brilliant relationship especially seen as it shouldn't be too hard to put the situation right. I texted her this and suggested we have a 2 week break without texting or phoning or anything and then get together and try and work it out. She has agreed to do this. The thing is that we are always so good together it's just that we probably both haven't been making as much effort to do things together and haven't been communicating as well as we should with our problems. Now I know people are going to think that she has met someone else but I think this is highly unlikely, she hardly has any time to go out and socialise and she works from home, she also texts people right in front of me, so I know shes not hiding anything. My question is in 2 weeks time how do I convince my girlfriend that we can make it work. We've had 18 incredible months, it's just been the last 2 that we've started to see each other infrequently. It just seems like a bit of an overreaction to want to totally end the relationship over this.