^^ nice to see you posting again, Vincenzo.
If their "space" consists of them still being exclusive, still seeing one another but less often and they talk regularily then I think that is completely different then taking a "break." It sounds like maybe she was feeling smothered, perhaps her friends were telling her that she was drifting from them or, she just was getting behind in the things we all need to do on a regular basis because they were always together.. Any of that ring a bell with these two?
“The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source from which self-respect springs.” ~Joan Didion