si, patience. General guidance is to give it at least a year. After a year it would be difficult for anyone to accuse you of pulling the trigger too fast. Here's the deal though, the deadline is for you, not her.
Limbo is the gift of time. LBSs that get blindsided with BD and then the WAS leaves right away would kill to have some limbo time. If you are having patience issues likely you aren't doing enough GAL. Those that struggle the most do the worst job at GAL.
M(53), W(54),D(19) M-23, T-25 Bomb Drop - Dec.23, 2017 Ring and Piecing since March 2018