A sad email today - and a situation that I think most men (and women) can identify with.  I've paraphrased parts of the email, and removed other things that may be too personal.

I've been reading the social man forum for quite some while and so have david's forum. Right now I am completely heart broken and in desperate need of help.  I've been going out with this girl since June 2008. Things were going smooth until in November, when she sent me an e-mail citing what was wrong with the relationship. Her main complaints were that: I didn't appreciate her enough, I took her for granted and I didn't treat her right. She makes it out like I cheated on her. After reading the e-mail I call her, we went back and forth nothing productive came out of it. The next day, I text her saying I was willing to make changed and put an effort into this relationship. She said what specifically was going to change and in the end was like ok thats fine, but I need maybe this weekend and the next week to myself. If you want to you can call me, if not I can understand. So I give her alone time, and when i didn't hear back from her in 5 days, I texted her. Since then things have not been the same. I feel like I am at times dealing with a different person. Her thing was that when you hurt someone you can't expect them to bounce back to being the way they were. Before this our relationship was very loving and caring, she would do anything for me. I would get into more specifics, but i know your time is prescious hence i'm trying to keep it as short as possible. So we saw each other 3-4x after that, communication was improving. After the semester ended she went back to home from college. At the end of December, she sends me a message on facebook saying it's not going to work out because she can't let go of the way i treated her and gets bitter everytime she thinks about it. This is weird b/c six days earlier, she texted me at 4:30 AM saying I do love you in case you cared and I didn't do anything wrong in between. I really love this girl and know she is the one. It's so painful, I would do anything to get her back and reinstate what we had. Please help me, I will deeply appreciate it.

I know that my answer isn't going to make this poor guy happy... but its the most realistic advice I can give.

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