Feeling a little lost

This is my first sad/emotional post on imgur, sorry if it’s too whiney, I’m just really sad and need to pour my heart out.

My boyfriend and I just ended a beautiful, loving, supportive relationship. We’ve been together for over a year, always planned to be together for a very very long time if not end up building a family. We went through some really heavy things in the beginning of our relationship but made it out stronger. It looked like there wasn’t anything we couldn’t handle together.

He’s been struggling a lot with his own demons and unhappiness with his work. He feels extremely unfulfilled in his own life and it’s getting to the point where he can’t stick it out here in New York anymore. A few days ago he told me he was thinking of moving to Bangladesh and working with Burmese refugees. His family is from Bangladesh so he feels very strongly about his roots. He’s tried everything to make things work here, and despite us having an incredible and happy relationship, he needs to get a new perspective on life and work on his happiness.

Originally he said he wouldn’t leave me for this, but over the course of the past couple of days we both realize we wouldn’t be able to make it work and it would be more beneficial for him to make this journey on his own. He has no clue how long he’ll be doing this for. It could be a month, 6 months, a year or 5 years.

As much as I love him, and it kills me to do so, I have to let him go and make himself happy.

Sorry for the sob story, I’m just so sad right now.

Tl;dr - ended an amazing relationship because my bf needs to make himself happy, my heart is broken.