So me and my girlfriend had been going out for about two years. There was a somewhat age issue that her parents really could never see passed. My family was okay with everything however. From the minute i met her family, I had treated them with the utmost respect and treated them better than my own family. We were intimate and eventually it was brought to the attention of her parents. They're the type of people who are severely strict. So they threatened to call the police and basically banned us from seeing each other. However, we both loved each other and continued to secretly see each other. Then I went to college and we continued to act like we still went out with each other. I would travel back to our hometown every two weeks to see her, still secretly. We argued occasionally because we acted in such a way that we didn't like but it was never anything lasting. They would be conversations that let each of us know how the other felt.

So recently we got in an argument during Thanksgiving Break and we saw each other, still secretly, in order to talk about it. However, her parents later found out, used the same threat as before, and basically banned us from each other again. The thing that's different now is that my girlfriend feels that we both can't go on and continue to go out as long as we have to hide it. She says we have to take a "break" and that eventually when everything cools down we will get back together.

My question is, do you feel like it will actually pan out? We both love each other and she thinks its not fair for both of us to tie each other down for something that might never work out. We agreed that we would keep in contact and talk every so often, about once a week, to check up on each other so we don't lose contact. We made promises that we both intend on keeping, such as no sexual activity with other people and a few others. We made them so when/if we get back together, we won't feel any different towards each other and won't feel heart broken because we feel "betrayed." However, we agreed that we should attempt to talk to other people, possibly date, whenever we are ready, but we won't go against any of the promises we made to each other. If we could, we would be together in a heartbeat. We just feel like we need to stop hiding it when we do. So the only factor that is hampering our relationship is the feelings her parents have towards me. In my opinion, I think once she is around seventeen or eighteen, her parents would expect her to be having sex with people and would rather have it be with myself. Someone she has already shared herself with and they know cares about her. Do you think that it would work out and we'll be back together later in time? Will it take her parents that long to be okay with us being together? Or perhaps shorter? Or do you think we'll both eventually move on from each other and perhaps stay with whoever we find during the "break", that is if we find someone?