@Myuzikalsoul Yay, a fellow Outback mate!
If you want things to be successful, yes, cut ties. You can do it slowly, but you definitely have to do it. I know it sounds REALLY hard, I’ve been through this before. I promise.
Stage one is trying as hard as you can to avoid them. You’ll cry a lot, and be really down, but take your mind off of things. Go out with friends or take up a hobby. It will make time pass much easier. Stage two is when you start realizing how much better you feel. You feel like a weight has been lifted and you realize you’re better off the way you are alone. Stage three which may or may not happen, is that person realizing they want you back. That’s your decision entirely whether you want them back or not. Know that you will have to talk to them about changes being made. My ex would disappear from time to time (at this point we were together 2+ years) and I couldn’t handle it anymore. He kept telling me how things would change, and I’d believe him, and they would change, for a month or so, then it was back to the way it used to be. Finally I let him go, and we got back together, but ultimately we ended up apart, and I met someone completely different, and utterly amazing. It was a hard decision to let go, but I do not regret it at all, and my life has been much better, and filled with much less hurt.