Gotta agree with what weenog said here,
all of it.
Also as has been mentioned by both Janet and Scelly9, any relationship that includes the rule:
No talking or hanging out with the opposite gender unless its family
is pretty much doomed to fail at the beginning. I mean for god sakes even doing something as non-relationship based as going to school or work is impossible to do without interacting with the opposite sex at
some point. Plus the less controlling and more trust you are able to place in somebody in a relationship, and the easier it will be to stay in that relationship. A relationship where neither of you trusts the other will only last for as long as you can fend off the constrictions, but one where you can trust the other can last much longer.
Lastly I am unable to tell your age as you have N/A listed, but I'm going to say that the current scenario that you have outlined sounds like late junior high through early high school to me. If you are that age I would highly suggest that you start working on how to stay true to whoever you choose, because until you are able to do that it's going to be very difficult to find somebody who is willing to stay true to you. Also not to be cruel or anything, but from what it sounds like it seems as if he was right when he said that he wanted to just be friends, though at this point you might not even be able to swing that, as it sounds like it's gone a fair bit past the "stay friends" point by now. The first stage of learning to be true to somebody is learning to recognize when a relationship isn't working anymore, and the fact that one of you "needs a break from the other" is generally a good sign. While a short time apart may work in long term (think multi-year here), the shorter a relationship is the more "needing a break" is a sign that something isn't working as it should. As soon as one of you starts to feel that way it should be an immediate sign that you need to either change something, or that maybe the relationship just isn't meant to work out after all.