Conan,
Boy, do I understand what you are saying. My ex and I only dated for 2 months, and then got engaged. Never really got to know each other, and ended up having a really bad marriage. I don't plan on repeating that. Thank you very much for the advice, and sharing your experience. Your points are duly noted, I promise that. It's good to have reality checks once in awhile. Now, I would like to expand upon some of the things you said...
As far as the current situation, I haven't given up anything in my life. I'm still going out with my friends and doing the things that I like to do. Actually, since I've met her, I've been doing a lot more of that than I ever remember doing, and she encourages me to do it. We've done a lot of talking about what each of us likes to do, etc, and have found out that we have almost identical interests.
I'm not going to ask her out right now, because she just broke up with somebody. We needs some time to deal with and get over that, then we'll see where things are from there. I've already told her that as much as I want to be with her, I'm going to put some serious brakes on things until she's had time alone. We can hint and flirt all we want about being together, but I'm not going to let things go to far to quickly. Not only do I want this to work, but I've also got my beliefs and morals to think about. And right now, doing anything with her than just being her friend would put those in serious jeopardy.
Thanks again for the advice, I will definitely keep it in mind, and I will definitely keep people posted on what happens.
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