He wants a "break"?

Well, here is my story, we were together for 7 months, going on 8 this month and we didnt really have any fights or issues. We had little things here and there but we worked thorugh them together, we didnt even say i love you until we both trully meant it at our 3 month mark. He is a year and a half younger then me but he always told me i could count on him, lean on him...and i needed to the past couple months, ive been going through a lot and he was there through thick and thin, but now out of the blue he tells me he hates doing this to me and he doesnt want to because he loves me, but he wants a break....he tells me that he needs some time and space to organize his feeligs and thoughts...that he was too busy loving me that he didnt realize he couldnt handle all the stress until it became too much...thing is...i love him with my entire heart, we matched up perfectly like puzzle pieces...thing is people are telling me that he thinks now that i made him too big a part of my life, that i was dependent on him, but he told me i could be...its been 5 days since he asked for the "break" but i am not really sure if he will come back? and should i wait? i want to because as i said i really do love him and he keeps saying he still loves me and he cant even think to date anyone else, that he will let me know when he has decided whether he wants to mend this or break it off entirely...i just dont really know what to do at this point...