I'll try to keep this as concise as possible, since its actually a very detailed story. Lol

Uhm, so my bf and I have known each other forever, we were close friends in HS and fell in love, but didn't act on it.

After HS he went abroad for a few years, and by the time we actually rekindled our friendship in 2009, we discovered we were still very much in love.

Problem was, his GF had recently taken her own life (and I suffer severe depressions) and I had just come out of an abusive relationship...

So what did we do?

Well we had a good long talk and neither wanted to be without the other, but we weren't ready for each other either.

So we decided to have a "no pressure non-relationship" idk how better to label it.

Basically we didn't make any plans for the future, it was a zero expectations, live in the here and now, yet exclusive deal.

Lol we actually tried to play it very cool and pretend it was super casual, but we failed at that part of the experiment, the emotions were apparent, even when they weren't being verbalized.

So yeah, kinda unorthodox, but it worked for us at the time.

Sucks but I was ready for a labeled relationship way before him, but I just reminded myself what I signed up for, and exercised some loving patience.

Which paid off, we're still together and going stronger than ever, things are even more traditional now. Lol

*Just thought I'd share my experience.