Any experience here? Me and my ex are talking and I really want things to work. He's coming here to pick me up so we can go have dinner on the beach. I don't want to introduce sex back into our relationship just yet because I feel that will complicate things and there's still a lot of hurt there.

I want us to just date for a little while if that makes sense.

I'm excited but I don't want to get my hopes up. There's a lot of damage we never addressed but to me he's worth it (he never did anything seriously bad like cheating or abusing me we just hit a wall in our relationship).

Any advice for a fellow user? Could use some encouragement but I also respect your honesty.

Thank you for your time