Is Your Girlfriend Ready to Start Therapy?

Your best bet really is to empower your girl friend to make the choice she wants to make, which is hopefully the one you want too. You're 23 and probably don't feel a ton of pressure to settle down right away. There isn't even a huge opportunity cost to not seeing other people. If you were 33 and in the exact same place with your girl friend, would that still be ok with you? Would you be willing to keep your relationship a secret and be with somebody who can't be herself with her family forever? Maybe you are. And fair enough, that's for you to side.