How comfortable are you with the thought of your LTR being with someone else, especially if it doesn’t work out with other girl?

Here’s what will happen if you do what you’re proposing:

1) You dump LTR or go on a “break” and pursue other girl.

2) You quickly realize that she is either playing you, or that she’s lost interest once you actually become available and she realizes she can manipulate so easy that you dumped your LTR.

3) Rejected, you try to return to tour ex but quickly find out she has a new guy - that dude who was just a friend, classmate she never mentioned, whatever. She wants to continue the break and explore all her new options providing the excitement your 2.5yr LTR predictably lost.

4) You become a mess once you realize what you can’t have tour cake and eat it too. You desperately reach out to your ex and beg for reconciliation until she ultimately cuts you out of her life completely.