Search Results: giving my boyfriend space

- She's touchy and goes into your personal space
- She invites you to things (with friends & on own)
- She makes sure not to inconvenience you with plans.
- She's always there even if I avoid her
- If in a group, she won't be with you all the time, but quite a lot.
- she generally replies to messages promptly (even stupid ones) but once she ignored it.
- I've known her 6 months - seen her 5 or 6 times, met in a hobby group.
- She has a guy friend she sometimes "dates" but I only know from fb.
- She only ever refers to him as a friend.
- first time we met, she mentioned a boyfriend but never again. This was before she did most of the above.

Making a long story short, this isn't a question about "how to get an ex back," but I'm kinda confused about what my ex said regarding our break up. So I'll post the texts then follow up.
"I love you. There's no other guy that I'm interested in or talking to if you think that's the case cause it's not. But I feel like you really need to get a grasp on your life right now. You have a personality disorder, you're juggling school and work and sometimes you can be a lot on me and yourself. This isn't anything new. I've felt like this before we became official. But because I cared about you I was willing to help and suggest you get counseling. I'm the only one who tried to suggest you to talk to a professional and genuinely see about your well being. Remember that. But now it's not fair to me. I think we need a break. Not a week long break but us going our separate ways. We've been having discussions like these a lot and it hasn't solved anything. I still want to stay in contact with you though. I'm not saying we're done forever but in order for us to have a future you need to work on your present life. I'm not cutting you out of my life but I'm giving you the space to give your all to (my name) so you can be the man you wanna be." At the end of this long text I might come off as probably a terrible boyfriend (at the time). She made me feel guilty about my actions although it takes two people in the relationship, I didn't make an issue and bring up things she's done, just agreed with her leading to a very subtle breakup.
"Feels good to know we're on the same page instead of this becoming an argument and us hating each other like I've experienced before. If we didn't break up now, you'd probably end up losing me for good later. If I didn't want to be with you in the future I wouldn't be speaking to you right now. You'd be cut off in all forms." which followed up the end of our convo with exchanges of "I love you," and that's it. .

I hate to see my girlfriend uncomfortable and in pain when she is on her period.
She also seems less happy and more easily angered towards me even if I don't do anything wrong. I try to remember that it's her pain talking and not her.
I can't feel or understand the pain she is feeling but is there any way I can make her more comfortable.

I have read that when a girl is on her period there is a list of things her boyfriend should do for her. Things like talking care of things like cooking and cleaning, giving her a massage to make her feel more comfortable, give her things like chocolate, buy her whatever she needs for her period, spend time with her watching a movie she likes, and let her you think she is beautiful, forgive her for what ever mean things she says.

But I have also read that the best thing to do is give her space and let her deal with the period on her own.

Which do you think is best to do, taking care of her, or giving her space?