You're mostly correct, though I was good friends with her for years leading up to us actually dating so I knew what I was getting into. We were actually a pretty good couple (save for the "physical" speed bumps I just detailed) and were very comfortable with each other around friends and family or when it was just the two of us hanging out.

It was honestly a combination of her still being somewhat immature and not knowing how to handle a serious relationship and me reacting to the pressure of her leaving for college in less than 4 months that ultimately caused tension between us. Even though her college was only 40 minutes away and I already had plans to transfer there the following year, it was still a distance neither of us had any experience with. And unfaithfulness was simply not a concern of ours. We were, and still are (yes, we still occasionally keep in touch even 12 years later) very old fashioned and wouldn't even kiss a person unless we were in a relationship with them. Not to say time apart couldn't have been a contributing factor in developing feelings for someone else, since it never lasted that long, that's neither here nor there.

Despite my somewhat harsh and vulgar tone in my previous comment and the things I addressed, those weren't at all the reasons we eventually parted ways. I value that relationship experience immensely and took the time to learn everything that I could from it in the years that followed. We were good for each other for awhile, but we were also young and in time I came to realize that we were ultimately not meant to be; had we not broken up when we did, we simply would have been delaying the inevitable.

What did leave me with a bitter taste in my mouth for many years to come was the childish way she behaved in response to the strong relationship I had developed with her parents and her strong handed