Darling. Please tell me how to leave my long term partner without feeling this crippling guilt?

Sometimes you just need to do things for yourself. For your own self of well-being, for whatever it is that’s inside you that needs to get out. People love you and you don’t ask them to. Sometimes you fall out of love with them. Sometimes you stay in love but it’s still not right. How your partner reacts, what he feels, it’s not your responsibility. What is your responsibility is how you treat yourself. With love and patience and striving for the life you deserve.