  In relationships, can a slow start ever really pick up speed?
December 5, 2010 12:10 PM   Subscribe  To those of you in love:
can it ever grow from hesitancy into the real deal? Or does it
need to be BAM: we're mad about each other?  I have been seeing
a fellow for the last 3 and a half months - we met through
mutual friends, were instantly attracted to one another, turned
out to have a lot of things in common, and have been seeing one
another since. But after the initial period of excitement when
he was chasing after me, it hasn't really gone anywhere. We meet
up a couple times a week, have a lot of laughs, enjoy ourselves,
have off-the-charts chemistry in the bedroom. We'll sometimes
spend long aimless weekend days together, enjoying each other's
company. But he never expresses the slightest hint of how he
feels - no expressions of affection, of closeness, no off-hand
sweet comments. If you read the transcript of our conversations,
you'd assume we were just buddies. When I try to say sweet
things to him,