Confused

I've been in a relationship with a man that I was friends with for 8 years before starting a relationship and we just broke up. During our friendship i was single finding myself and how to be open to love again and he was in a relationship but we would still see each other. After coming together I imagine everything would go great but no some stuff i would have never imagined happened but cheating wasnt an issue. I guess over the course of our friendship we opened up to each other and never really had a falling out before, but you never really know a person until you live together. We both saw flaws in each other and had no problem with pointing them out, but not without getting disrespectful. So after 8 months he decided we should be single while working on ourselves, but still see each other from time to time as if we are still together. I agree we have things we need to work on individually but either we gone work on things within ourselves and be together or just be single n work on ourselves. This is the 2nd relationship I've been in and not sure how to feel.