So my story begins about 3 months ago when I broke up with my girlfriend of 16yrs. It just wasn't working out and basically the love was gone. Well to make matters worse I have 1 child with her and another on the way in June. The final push for the breakup was because I started getting interested in another woman. Me and the new woman started dating for about 2 months and everything was going great. She seemed to be showing increased interest in me and I did for her.
The third month came around and we started getting real close and ended up having an official relationship. About 2 weeks ago I told the girl that I was in love with her, she didn't respond back but we didn't lose any ground because of it. So I thought... I even asked her if it bothered her if I told her I loved her, supposedly it didn't. For the past 2 weeks I've been saying it regularly and about 4 days ago she started getting weird. She never really wanted to talk about the relationship so I was kinda in the dark as far as her feelings were concerned. I finally asked her how she felt about me and I get the:
"Were still boyfriend / girlfriend but I like you as a friend, I enjoy hanging out with you but I haven't developed those deeper feeling you have yet. We should slow down and if we have to take a step or two back". So as you can imagine that wasn't very easy to take. I do really love the girl but the love is kinda laced with oneitis and its keeping me from building the attraction to revive this relationship. I'm trying to slow the relationship down and knocked all the "I love you" shit off to hopefully turn the situation around.
It's just frustrating that even though I have kino with her and she seems to be having a good time with me she's starting to pull away in other aspects. Hell a week ago it was babe this, sweetie that and she was always ready to kiss me at the end of a date. Now there is none of that. Guess I'm just looking for some advice on how to proceed. I want to salvage this relationship but not sure how to turn the tables, kill the oneitis and get her pursuing me instead of constantly chasing her.
Once you get done laughing, any advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks guys.
