<human>: Ok so long story short my girlfriend [f 19] and I [m 20] (together now for 4 years) were having some issues in our relationship. Distance from going to separate colleges is to blame and her fears to commit added into that sort of scared her. After being on a break for a very short while we are still in some sense in a relationship but not on the same level that we were before. The plan is to work back to that level while trying to balance the distance. We are still very much in love and she tells me all the time that she can't live without me in her life and that she wouldn't be where she is today without me. I have done a lot for her and she is always there for me no matter what.

Anyway that was just the backstory. Being that we ran into these problems I told my mom about them since it was weird to her that we weren't together hanging out as much this summer since it was during this break we had. I made sure I emphasized this was purely distance. She even asked me if it was because she found someone else. This is not the case at all (me and the gf have been down that road while talking) and i told my mom that.

Now my gf's friend got a job for the summer at the office my mom manages and we are hearing stories from her about how my mom has in her head that she has found someone else, and that she wishes we would break up. I can't confront my mom about this directly and I don't know what else to do, I've just been waiting for an opportunity to hear something negative said amongst my family to be able to defend the true story. I don't even know what the rest of my family knows, should I be asking one of my siblings what they know and see what happens? Or should I just ignore this whole thing. I just hate the fact that there could be any hard feelings between the one I love and my family. Any advice?

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<bot>: My relationship was having problems, but we are now working through it. However, my mom talks badly about it behind my back saying that my gf has found someone else when that is not the case.