Background:

Me - Male, 20 years old
Her - Female (duh), 19 years old
Length of relationship - 9 months (senior year of high school)
Length of friendship - 2 1/2 years

Story:

After breaking up during our first semester of college, we have reconnected off and on since then.  Every few or so months we'll start texting again and it leads to meeting and a resurfacing of emotions.  Recently though we've started to mature a fair bit and she told me that she realized after being with someone after me that I was the person who made her happiest and she thinks she was meant to be with me.  Nonetheless, we try to continue our pattern of talking a little every few months to keep things from accelerating too fast, since we both agreed we need time to mature some more before we try to be in relationships with *anyone*.  I think she is sincere and she does act like I am an important aspect of her life, regardless of the status of our relationship.

We recently started communicating again and she said numerous times that she misses me and really wants to see me.  I invited her to come visit me at my new place on Thursday and spend the night.  We reminisced on our past relationship and how we always fell asleep facing each other so we could feel each other breathing and stuff like that, and it seems like something we both want to experience again.  I can imagine that that may lead to other things as they usually do, but this is where my question lies.

How can we experience these things again and enjoy each other's company without compromising our relationship?  I've never quite understood how two people can leave emotions out of an interaction like this, but apparently a lot of people do.  She seems to be able to do it too, but I don't see what I'm missing.  What's the secret?
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assistant
Background:

Me - Male, 20 years old
Her - Female (duh), 19 years old
Length of relationship - 9 months (senior year of high school)
Length of friendship - 2 1/2 years

Story:

After breaking up during our first semester of college, we have reconnected off and on since then.  Every few or so months we'll start texting again and it leads to meeting and a resurfacing of emotions.  Recently though we've started to mature a fair bit and she told me that she realized after being with someone after me that I was the person who made her happiest and she thinks she was meant to be with me.  Nonetheless, we try to continue our pattern of talking a little every few months to keep things from accelerating too fast, since we both agreed we need time to mature some more before we try to be in relationships with *anyone*.  I think she is sincere and she does act like I am an important aspect of her life, regardless of the status of our relationship.

We recently started communicating again and she said numerous times that she misses me and really wants to see me.  I invited her to come visit me at my new place on Thursday and spend the night.  We reminisced on our past relationship and how we always fell asleep facing each other so we could feel each other breathing and stuff like that, and it seems like something we both want to experience again.  I can imagine that that may lead to other things as they usually do, but this is where my question lies.

How can we experience these things again and enjoy each other's company without compromising our relationship?  I've never quite understood how two people can leave emotions out of an interaction like this, but apparently a lot of people do.  She seems to be able to do it too, but I don't see what I'm missing.  What's the secret?
user
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assistant