communicate. commuNICATE. COMMUNICATE!!! If you think this guy is "The One" that's awesome! Learn how to communicate with him! There's no way for you to know what he's thinking or why he does what he does (or him- you) unless you talk to each other about those things.
I've recently come to the end of a twenty year relationship and pretty much every problem we ever had was due to poor communication. She was constantly doing things expecting a certain reaction from me while I was always taking her actions the wrong way. Had we communicated properly about the issues we were having Both of us have no doubt that we wouldn't have gone through all of the pain and misunderstanding that we did.

I have some friends who have good communication skills and their relationships are so healthy and vibrant- even through the rough times. This is a skill that has to be learned and worked at, but my friends have told me that communication has been key to them feeling good about themselves and each other within their relationships.

One way to get started is to let your partner know that he's important to you and that you want to have really good communication so that your relationship can be the best it can be. No matter how hard it is to talk about some things, it WILL be worth it.

Make it a regular thing or just whenever something comes up, pick a time to talk and let him know what you want to talk about so that when you sit down to talk, you both know why you're there. And understand that you're there because you love each other. If you come at this from a place of love and understanding, even the hardest of subjects can be discussed and understood. I've been learning A LOT about this since my relationship ended with several people that I haven't communicated well with over the past years and it's true and liberating!! Neither of you will have to try to guess about the other's intensions and you'll be free to just love each other and even if, in the end, it doesn't work out between you, you'll both know why and be able to celebrate the time you did spend together.
It's been said that actions speak louder than words... But if you don't understand those actions it doesn't matter how loud they are!!!

DMD