What kind of boyfriend advice should I give my friend?

Hi, I was just wondering if someone can help me out a little as to what kind of advice I can give to a friend of mine about her boyfriend.

Scenario: She decided to take a break from their relationship (starting today) because of things happening with them right now. These things include the fact that she is an attractive, outgoing girl who has goals for her future and loves to go out and socialize with friends. She’s not into the party or clubbing scene. He is a more mellow, slack kind of guy that likes to stay indoors and his idea of going out with friends is to go to their house and play video games; when she’s with him at times too. Other than that, he goes out and parties at friends places and can get smashed at times (leaving my friend to take care of him) He doesn’t really have goals for his future. He just works at his part time job right now and that’s all he seems interested in doing.

BUT! He is a wonderful guy who loves her with all he has and she loves him the same way. They’ve been together for almost 2 years now and they have a wonderful bond.connection. But she is afraid that if she goes through with this break that he’s going to loose interest and just give up. I told her she should continue the break and take that time to think things through. And if he looses interest like that than his love wasn’t for real and it’s not worth fight for it.

They’ve been fighting a lot lately and he can get really verbally nasty at times. The fighting and her trying to think of her future with him (going no where) is what made her initialize this ‘break’. But she still loves him like crazy and has her fears. He says he doesn’t want the break and that he’ll change, and that he loves her like crazy (which I have no doubt of).

Please, what kind of advice should I give my friend? Please don’t say she should just ‘dump his @$$ and move on’. If that’s what ends up happening later, then that’s that, but she wants to believe there can be some hope for them. Please help?

Thanks in advance! And sorry for the long question…

XO<3