Personally I think it is, only because I am talking from experience. That being said, when my loneliness has overwhelmed me and I rushed things along with someone out of desperation, it usually ended up blowing up in my face. (He thought I was too clingy, needy and psycho, which granted I might have been a bit of all three).

Just out of curiosity, why are you asking? Is he the lonely one moving too fast, or are you?