For me it's like taking "the next step". The place where where she is now is not as fullfiling as she wants it to be, because she idealized it.
Now she wants real life to meet her idealization.
If it's a relationship, then she idealized him or the idea of the relationship for too long, but now she's tired of it and she needs some space to see if it will work out or not in real life, or maybe if the other person is willing to do something about it instead of "just dreaming", if that makes any sense
For me it's like taking "the next step". The place where where she is now is not as fullfiling as she wants it to be, because she idealized it. Now she wants real life to meet her idealization. If it's a relationship, then she idealized him or the idea of the relationship for too long, but now she's tired of it and she needs some space to see if it will work out or not in real life, or maybe if the other person is willing to do something about it instead of "just dreaming", if that makes any sense