Talking about Relationship (This Time It's My Story)

So, I want to talk about my current relationship but I don't know where to start. Duh.

Let me try...  My boyfriend and I went to the same primary school, same junior high school, and same senior high school. All those 12 years, we didn't know each other personally. Well, we knew each other's face and name and that's it.

We went to different universities in 2012. Then in 2014 we started chatting online and we always had good conversation. 

As time went by, I thought to myself, "Does he flirt with me?" and yes, he flirted and sometimes he had funny pickup lines that I couldn't help laughing. He still does that. Damn, I smile while writing this. 

However, I hadn't been interested in relationship for years so I just talked to him casually as a friend. I responded to his pickup line with another joke that often made him felt like, "Aaaaaarrrrggghh!!!" 

I told Lady Slytherin about this. I said, "Well, I guess I could like him if he can continue it long enough." She asked, "What if he's tired and he goes finding someone else?" I said, "That's okay. I'm not ready for a relationship anyway."

Recently, I found a blog post that described my feeling about him in the beginning here. That post is about potential love. It says, "Have you ever felt a potential love for someone? Like, you don't actually love them and you know you don't, but you know you could. You realise that you could easily fall in love with them...."

Back to my story, we once met for a few minutes to lend him my book. I forget when that happened. Months later, in June 2017, we agreed to meet in a book store because where else should I go for a first date (book lover mode: on)? We met another high school friend in that book store and this friend looked at us suspiciously. We greeted him and he looked like he wanted to ask question but he didn't ask. He was too shocked, probably.

We went out together five times until finally he asked me to be his girlfriend last November. I had the proclivity to avoiding commitment but I thought again, I always enjoyed my time with him and it didn't hurt to give this relationship a try. He is willing to communicate his thought and opinion. He also lets me do the same. In other words, we're good for each other so I said yes. 

We're finally in a relationship after 3 years. Our friends say that's a long time. Well, it really takes a long time for me to trust someone. It takes me longer to let myself commit to a relationship so that long time is worth spending.

How do I feel about him? He's different. Back in the past, when I had a crush or fell in love, I felt a little uncomfortable. I have come a long way in the term of loving myself. In the past, I often thought too hard on how to impress the guy I liked. With my boyfriend now, I feel all right. We have our fight, of course, but we talk through it. This is why I was once confused about how I felt because love used to make me uncomfortable.

Now if you ask me whether I love him, I will say yes, I do love him.