This is all hard to answer because it has only been 4 weeks. I was doing a lot of the calling and initiating. But I have stopped. He calls to tell me something or ask me something or respond to a message I left. I might have to wait and come back to these questions. Conversations have gone best when I don't bring up R talk. He seemed pretty comfortable when he came over on Tuesday, before the R talk. Tuesday was the day I was able to let it all out and let go and tell him so.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.