Frank...
Use that year to work on being ok alone
being ok with you

LSS was already with someone (well a lot of someones) when I left.

I took 2 years before I dated anyone else or allowed any feelings of being serious with someone to enter in

I found my match...my compliment

he enjoys the me I am, the one I recovered and made stronger, the me I chose to be instead of just the person I felt I had to be.

i love him
we are together

but...you know what????

I would be OK without him too
and
that feeling is great!!!!