Need some advice

Longest story of my life shortened.... about 9 years ago I found out I was pregnant .... my boyfriend and I had just broken up, I told him and he said he didn’t want Kids and I ended up going through my pregnancy alone... he didn’t even meet her until she was 2 months old. We didn’t see one another until she was 8 months for the paternity test... which came back positive, as I knew. From there we tried to date but we lived almost 3 hours apart and with a small child commuting seemed impossible and I grew to resent him for not being around and pushed him away and said I would just do it alone. He moved back to the town we lived in about 2 months after that break up to be with us. He tried everything to make us happy and bought me everything I wanted yet I never saw it until recently... 8 years later.

We ended up breaking up about a year after he moved to us because I was being impossible to love, I didn’t love him I was SO MAD that he missed part of her life I was pissed he wasn’t there with me when I was pregnant and I just couldn’t leave the past In the past. This man moved to make me happy and I just pushed him away and then ran off with my daughter to another town. Fast forward to present, my daughters only seen her dad about a 20 times in the last 6 years because I was impossible to deal with and I just was being selfish.

He’s spent a few weekends with her now and we talk like we’re really good friends we’ve always been able to talk and I’ve always been able to share things with him even if it wasn’t about our daughter. I know he still loves me and part of me wonders what could have been and wonders if something could be. I’ve forgiving him for not being around as much as I wanted and have grown up a lot since then. I was 22 when I had my daughter. So I’m sitting here thinking about having a conversation with home about us possibly dating... obviously starting off super slow and getting to know one another in person again and hanging out... esp him having alone time with his daughter again. I’m just nervous I know that you’ll never know unless you try...

Any success stories out there ??