📝 WIBTAH for breaking up with my girlfriend over fear of creating problems between her and her family?

By Ok-Explanation-5497 • Score: 1 • April 22, 2025 7:09 PM


I, 25M, am usually really busy with stuff going on in life like my business and haven't really gotten around finding a partner, and wasn't really interested in one anyways.

One day I took a break from all the work and was on my phone on a chatting website, and got matched with this random 19 years old. We quickly found each other intertaining and fun to talk to. Over 4 months, I started developing feelings for her. I told her about it, and turns out she does too.

A bit of background about her: She dropped out of high school and is already working, lives gery comfortably, rents an apartment, and has her own car. She has been working for 2 years. She is sometimes even more mature than me. One reason i genuinely loved her is because she listens and understands. When we argue, she tries to understand me and our arguments dont last more than an hour till we get all happy again. So from maturity side, she is everything I'm looking for.

The problem is really just how her parents will see it. She said we don't have to tell them, and I don't know it feels kind of like kidnapping if I do that. I don’t want to break her heart, but I also don’t want to create tensions in her family over me. I come from an asian family, where this age gap is very normal, but for her family its not.

Atp I’m thinking of ending the relationship because of fear of creating problems between her family over me. WIBTAH?

To answer few questions: - She isn’t hiding it from her parents forever. She is going to tell them once we know we are for eachother for sure. We only been together for 4 months so it’s a bit early. I haven’t told my parents either because it’s still early - The reason why I’m asking this isn’t because I think it’s weird. Again in my culture, this is very common. I just don’t want to create problems between her and her parents over me. I would see this as creepy if she really was acting like a child, but she isn’t. - We haven’t met yet, but we are planning to meet in few months. But now that we talked about the age gap again and she mentioned her parents won’t be okay with it, I don’t know what to do - We do share a ton in common. We share same interests, we love to listen to eachother's stories and ask so many questions about them to know more, we watch same stuff, and much more.

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