I’ve been talking to this girl I met online for about six months. She’s an introvert, doesn’t have many friends, and honestly seems afraid of people. It took 3 months for her to finally go out with me. She told me she has anxiety and doesn’t go out much most of her world behind a screen. That’s way I kinda liked her because I’m an introvert by myself. And generally communication with people makes her tired. Because of that, she can ignore me for half a day because she simply feel depressed. Despite that, we clicked. Our conversations were slow at first, but we were chatting more and more getting new information about each other. I started to really care about her. She’s quiet but thoughtful, and I always felt like there was something fragile and real about her. We were chatting a lot on different topics and both of us enjoyed it and felt comfortable.

A while ago, I told her I liked her. She said she wasn’t ready for a relationship. I understood she has too much things on her mind (recently she went to an university), and I didn’t want to push her but I also said that maybe, if we spent more time together, things could change. She just replied, “Maybe.” We’ve only met twice in person.

The first time was simple just a walk, talking about random things, it was kinda scary to her at first to meet as she has social anxiety. It felt good, like I could finally see the person behind the messages. But after the second meeting something in me shifted. I caught real feelings for her, and it hasn’t gone away since.

The hard part is knowing she might not feel the same way. She probably sees me as a friend, and I try to be okay with that but it’s painful. I can’t just switch off what I feel. I don’t want to lose her, but it’s hard pretending I’m fine being just friends. She seems so cute, interesting, smart and beautiful to me despite her low confidence. I would love to do gifts for her, care for her and other activities so she would felt positive. I would like to have serious relationship with her

I’m stuck between wanting to move on and still hoping that maybe one day things can work out differently. How am I supposed to act in this situation? I guess confessing would be quite irrational as I know she probably gonna reject me and will ask me to be friends. Or should I maybe start hanging out with her more and add some romantic in our relationship? Like slowly putting things together