thanks mum, I love hearing you too!
And you're right, about does or doesn't lead etc.
It's the getting to know someone and not knowing where it will lead is all the fun, but this is the first time I've had the confidence ( and sense ) to recognise that, and enjoy what flowers in its own time.
I am lucky to have met a special man who feels the same way about me: if it blossoms into a romance well, Write-the-impatient will just have to wait and see.
I have often wondered before why those little moments don't happen to me much- but I am beginning to see that I've been with the wrong people/ never truly felt comfortable to just be myself...and that sensing rejection in every little thing I have often precipitated a bigger rejection 'let's get it over with'.
More about all that on a separate thread.