I feel like I need more info. He wants to take a break to help attachment, but you seem plenty attached? Maybe he's feeling smothered and wants some time away? You don't need to take a break from a relationship to ask for space.

Plus, everything that reminds me of him will cause me to start sobbing.

For me it was fleeing the pain that caused such a constant high state of allertness, and restlessness, and in a self-fulfilling way: pain.

The solution for me was to sob, and cry, and feel it. All. 🤍

Don't need to open the floodgates, but don't pretend there isn't enormous pressure on the levies either. Release the pressure, at a comfortable rate.

Deep breaths my dear. remember you are a person even when you're on your own. Your identity and who you are shouldnt be shackled to another person thats not fair on either of you. Go get doing things that you like, things he wouldnt have liked, go be you or try to remember who that person is. Have a phenomenal cathartic cry and move forward, one step at a time. We love you. Everything will be alright.

Hey I'm sorry you're going through this. Read the book Attached.

You should talk to a therapist. This attachment isn't normal. It sounds like you're smothering him and he's about to leave.

I can’t think about hugging him or anything he said because thinking of him reminds me that I can’t talk to him.