I casually dated several people after I did lots of work on myself (about 2 years). I wanted to have fun but nothing serious...I didn't feel I was ready. I had several really good times, made some friends, discovered some people who needed to do more work on themselves with licensed professionals grin
and
I found Cori

In the beginning he was a wonderful, supportive friend that I had an amazing connection with

we started spending more time together and even though he lived 6 hours away, we spent many weekends together

after awhile of dating and becoming more serious (we both were a quite a bit nervous about this) lots of praying and soul searching and even friend adjusting (there were several people who did not approve of our relationship for several reasons, some valid, some not) we decided to risk it

I found him to be a tremendous blessing and one can not receive great rewards without some risks...but I had to be very willing to lose it too...you know, faith

so far we are doing wonderfully
there are some hiccups but we have done lots of hard work on ourselves and we did lots of hard work together to get to the point where we are

slow
steady
hard work
risks
faith