I had a lovely weekend, mostly hanging out with Prof and taking my clothes off a lot, 4 times today alone.
I had a turning point moment with him this morning, we were laying in bed and he came out with a list of things that he likes about. Like this, likes that, looks right at me and says " I like you a lot." I reply that I like him a lot too. And have a think about why I wrestle with the "L" word so horribly. I decide to speak up.
We head out for breakfast and I ask about his dating and the other women that the sees and we discuss my level of interest in knowing and his desire for an increase in my communication with him about that. And I get round to asking about the list of likes from earlier and how I feel it's time to get comfortable with me telling him that I love him. He sweetly informs me that he fell in love with me "ages ago", he does love me and isn't it obvious? He has been watching my awkwardness and weirdness on the subject with some amusement since last August. He says he fell in love and hasn't fallen out of love since then. He has basically been waiting for me to catch up. I strongly suspect that the list of likes has been his gentle nudge for me open up on the subject. It is not the first time he has done it recently. As I write, I can see he has been laughing at me for a while with the list of likes, no doubt I will hear of his how his cleverness succeeded in a week or 2.
There was reiteration of the fact that we are happy with how things are in general. We meet, have intense fun and then separate back to our regular lives. He loves that I plan and organize things that stop him working 7 days a week, I like that he is an energetic and willing partner and he also comes up with plenty of ideas of activities and events. We both agree that Wednesday nights are highly important, we both look forward to them and we should keep them as a priority.
The level of crossover that we have works for us both. He doesn't want to get into over analyzing the relationship because he worries that we will over think it into problems but says I am too far at the other end of not discussing things at all. He has said that before and apparently I haven't made much improvement in that area. It seems to mostly be the same stuff that has been discussed before but we agreed that I am going to tell him I love him every now and then.
I had a turning point moment with him this morning, we were laying in bed and he came out with a list of things that he likes about. Like this, likes that, looks right at me and says " I like you a lot." I reply that I like him a lot too. And have a think about why I wrestle with the "L" word so horribly. I decide to speak up.
We head out for breakfast and I ask about his dating and the other women that the sees and we discuss my level of interest in knowing and his desire for an increase in my communication with him about that. And I get round to asking about the list of likes from earlier and how I feel it's time to get comfortable with me telling him that I love him. He sweetly informs me that he fell in love with me "ages ago", he does love me and isn't it obvious? He has been watching my awkwardness and weirdness on the subject with some amusement since last August. He says he fell in love and hasn't fallen out of love since then. He has basically been waiting for me to catch up. I strongly suspect that the list of likes has been his gentle nudge for me open up on the subject. It is not the first time he has done it recently. As I write, I can see he has been laughing at me for a while with the list of likes, no doubt I will hear of his how his cleverness succeeded in a week or 2.
There was reiteration of the fact that we are happy with how things are in general. We meet, have intense fun and then separate back to our regular lives. He loves that I plan and organize things that stop him working 7 days a week, I like that he is an energetic and willing partner and he also comes up with plenty of ideas of activities and events. We both agree that Wednesday nights are highly important, we both look forward to them and we should keep them as a priority.
The level of crossover that we have works for us both. He doesn't want to get into over analyzing the relationship because he worries that we will over think it into problems but says I am too far at the other end of not discussing things at all. He has said that before and apparently I haven't made much improvement in that area. It seems to mostly be the same stuff that has been discussed before but we agreed that I am going to tell him I love him every now and then.