Sophie

And we had talked about expectations like upfront, I think even before the first date, cause he had told me like about being married and his son and everything before we met.

And my answer like all along has just been, you know, I am dating, I'm trying to be like genuine in how I'm dating, but I'm also not looking to rush into anything serious.

And, um, you know, he kind of felt the same way, but then obviously, you know, with, with him and feeling like this could be some real feelings there and him having a son, like there is an added seriousness to it where I don't want to waste his time.

Um, you know, I don't want him to waste my time.

Um,

But anyway, so that happened.

And my whole thought, and it was when I originally wrote it into you guys, was I'm just going to take this day by day.

And I told him that.

It was like, let's try not to rush this too much.

I'm not saying I love you back.

And he didn't say it again after that.

I think he was like, oh, shit.

But it was like, OK, let's try to slow things down.

But we were seeing each other a lot, like at least at least two times a week, I would say.

And we were really growing like the emotional connection.

Like he opened up a lot about his previous relationship and why that didn't work.

Um, we were having a lot of like deep conversations about stuff and we were not, we, there was a lot of physical, like sexual tension for sure.

But he was actually the one that said he didn't want to rush the physical part of it too much that he didn't want this to be a hookup.

He said multiple times, like, I don't want this to be a hookup.

Um, and so that was great.