For context here is the original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/AgeGap/s/4QERsa6L5S

So it’s been almost two years since the assault and battery incident took place. This update is gonna be a bit of a roller coaster but I’ll try to keep it concise. After the incident happened, my GF’s parents kicked her out of their house and she had to stay in the dorms. Her parents told her that they will never accept me.

Moving into 2023, we are still together. GF’s grandmother suspects we are still together, but she eventually comes around to accepting our relationship. GF and I are closer than ever, I’m helping her with mutual schoolwork and living expenses. Her parents do eventually confront her about us if we’re still together, she doesn’t lie to them and tells them we are still together. Not gonna bore y’all with the summer break but it’s basically the same, we work, spend time together, and I help her with living expenses; my GF got to go to Europe so that was awesome!

It’s now Fall 2023, my last semester and my senior recital is on the horizon. GF started student teaching and her senior recital is also on the horizon, but I had been working on a medley for woodwind quintet based on themes from The Legend of Zelda The Wind Waker. I had to credit myself by a different name on the piece so her parents wouldn’t recognize it was I that had arranged it. Her recital was amazing and everyone in the hall was ecstatic, my arrangement for my GF was a success. Her grandmother knew the arranger was me but didn’t tell her parents til’ later. My senior recital came and went, had some bucket list pieces played and an original of mine as well. I graduated with my Bachelor’s in Music, Magna Cum Laude.

2024 rolls around and my GF’s grandparents have an intervention with her parents. Her parents finally had to accept that we weren’t breaking up and that’s when they caved and told my GF that she would keep her car and that they would house her until we were ready to move out on our own. My GF and I got engaged at the end of March, so yay! Her parents weren’t quite ready for it and said that I had to ease their concerns in various ways before they could 100% sign on to our engagement. I accept that in stride. We’re currently at a much better place than we were almost 2 years ago. I’ll take any win I can get. Fiancée graduated with her Bachelor’s of Music, Magna Cum Laude, she starts teaching in Fall 2024. Fiancée is 21 now and I’m 35.

No wedding date set yet but things are looking up!

Edit 1: I just want to say that Fiancée’s grandparents are awesome! We would not have made the headway we have had they not intervened. They love me and I love them!