confused over what to do with 5 1/2 year relationship! Is the love gone???

Hi, first I want to thank anyone in advance for any help they can provide.
I have been with my boyfriend for 5 1/2 years (since I was 19). He is the only boyfriend that I have ever had and we have lived together for 4 years. For the past half of the relationship I have been seriously doubting the relationship, and whether or not he is the one for me. He is a really nice guy, and I know that he loves me a lot. Also, I feel no sexual attraction to him anymore.
I'll think that I want to end it, but then panic when I am about to. I don't want to lose him as a friend, and I don't want to hurt him. Also, I am not 100% sure that I want it to be over, I am afraid that it is a 'grass is greener on the other side" scenerio, and I will regret it. I will graduate university this year and plan to go abroad or to grad school, either way it is most likely that we will not reside in the same city after another 6 months. He says that I need to have more faith in him.
A few new things have come into play: I have made some really good friends in our latest city, while he has not. I feel as though I have no patience with him anymore and am always snappy. I have started to develop crushes on other guy friends. Also, I am terrified that I will end up alone.


Thank you all again for any insight
xo

don't do it! u'll regret it! When i was with my ex, all these guys were saying they like me, i liked the attention and i started losing interest in my boyfriend. i was chilling with this particular guy a lot and i realised i had feelings for him as well as my ex so i started pushing my ex away little by little. i didn wanna end it so i was doing things to make him end it to him so that i can clear my conscience and see everything wasn't my fault. he did end it eventually becuase of all the things i was doing to him but when i got to know this new guy properly, he was nothing like my ex, which was a bad thing!! he was a real bad guy just pretending to be good. and as soon as i left my bf, he lost interest in me. i think with him, the theory 'men wants what they can't have' applied to him. because i was with my ex at the time, he wanted me but as soon as i made my ex dump me, he lost interest and because someone else. i regretted it big time! although he did take me back later, that is no way to go about things at all. we broke up finally for another reason entirely but if he hadnt take me back then, the guilt would have hunted me for life! so i say if u just want to end it cuz u think the grass would be greener on the other side, then DON'T! but if u've got other reasons that are more acceptable than that, they maybe you should think about it. Good luck! x

I was in the same situation as you. I started dating one of my exs when i was 19. We were together for 6 years...lived together for 5...engaged for 4. I was feeling as if we were just friends at the end. He treated me so well and loved me soooo much. I too was not attracted to him and never wanted to have sex with him anymore. I finally ended it...i missed him as a person...but was much happier after I did. It was a very hard decision for me but once i dit it..i realized i was not in love with him anymore. Follow your heart as i did....there may be someone youre more compatible with out there

Hi, I am exactly in the same situation as you. Having a 5 year relationship with my first bf, and think already for more than a year that I might not 'love' him anymore. I say 'love', because I am quit sure I love him with all my heart, that's what it makes it so difficult, but I don't know if I am still 'in love' with him, like what's necessary to stay longer together.. I am having a hard time finding out, and also me I am afraid to regret it afterwards. I am quit sure I will miss him a lot, but maybe it's the best decision... I met one other guy, for whom I immediately felt somthing I've never felt before, and I just really want to try it, also afraid to stick to the first one which is good, but maybe not the best...
I know it's difficult, but should also say, follow your heart and feelings, you will only learn from 'wrong' or 'not completely right' relationships, and every time you know what you are not searching for in someone, and it will be clearer and easier to find 'the one'.
Good luck!