How long??

It's natural to miss someone while you're "on a break". You take away the companionship you'd been expecting and it's very natural to want to get that back.

My recommendation would be to spend a good month apart, a week is not much time at all and that will give you plenty of time to do what you need to do during this break.

When a relationship takes a break, both partners should evaluate what they want, focus on where their boundaries lie and the relationship they want to have. Here's a video and an inventory list to help you start off on the road to setting boundaries and deciding for yourself what kind of relationship you want. Ideally, both of you fill these out on your own and make a list of needs/wants in a relationship then come back in a month with your lists and compare, see if there's compromise to be found and decide from there where the relationship is going.

End of next week so it would seem casual but be firm and smooth ..

call him