Hi hi, I don’t really post much on here but I could definitely use an outsiders voice here.

I’m a young adult in my 20s, just navigating as well as I can out here and I have my own apartment, I work FT all that jazz. Recently in the past couple of months my best friend from middle school has reached out to me and it has made me feel some type of way. Like I sorta started thinking about if he’s seeing anyone and maybe just seeing where things go? A lot of what ifs really, and I was on and off fwb with my ex because I was really not looking to start over with a stranger as my last relationship was just a lot to deal with but it was familiar so I stayed. I deserved so much more than I got from it but It was all I had known for so long especially during covid, that ex was pretty much the only person I had in my bubble. Anyways my middle school best friend and I have been making up for lost time and been hanging out almost every day recently and he’s putting in so much effort to remind me how worth it I am to him, all the basic things I wished I could have had before- I have with him now and I don’t have to ask nor beg for it and he’s brought up the fact that he regrets letting me go when we were kids; that things just feel right with me. Things make sense when he’s around too, it’s like we never lost contact and it’s so easy to just be me and him be him. We’re both coming from shitty relationships that knocked us both down but we want to try and see where things could go between us. Even my parents are all for it, they’ve always adored him and have made subtle comments about how good he is for me.

I suppose because I’m not used to being treated so well and just having such a gentleman in my life is way different I guess I can be a little apprehensive at times because it’s new. Is this normal? To feel like this? I can absolutely see a future with this man and we still have super super similar goals in life after all this time, I’d definitely like to hear your overall views on this? Any similar situations?

Thanks(: