Process Model Save and Continue

I have a process model and interface set up so when user clicks save and continue it exits the form to write to DB then a XOR gate that checks the user action, if it's save & continue it loops back to the interface. All of the nodes are activity chained. But for some reason it keeps exiting out of the interface instead of just loading it back up. Could it be because there are a lot of writes to database so it's delaying the loop back? I do have less than 50 nodes.