Have I done the right thing? Please answer this question . I am at the beginning stages of a divorce .....?

(was a verbal & emotional abusive mariage)- and I have met this man who has become such a good friend, problem is I have never felt so strongly about some-one and no I am not vulnerable or on the rebound and am not a gullible person. This is the real deal, it has become so bad though that I can not function if I do not hear from him. We have this long distance friendship and I have decided to end the contact we have. I wrote to him and told him how I feel & informed him that it is better we do not have contact anymore- because I would rather end it and let him know how I feel then feel this way and pretend all the time. Anyway, although he is older and has been divorced, I come with the package of two kids and with the fear of what lies ahead- I love him to much to want to put this on his shoulders. Well, I did it, I sent the email, he knows now and I am never going to talk to him again- did I do the right thing, this is what I am struggling with now