I would like to add, that by "we act very much like a couple" I mean the sort of things like movie nights (with just him, or with his best friend and best friend's girlfriend), random gifts, kisses at moments of arrival and separation and sometimes in between (quite chaste pecks really), m...

I've never really been a touchy-feely type of a person, nor a great conversationalist (especially when it comes to feelings), maybe because showing affection (verbally or physically) has never been something my family does much (or really, at all). For example, when I was 14, my friends had to "...