Falling in Love?

First off, congrats on this feeling. I am not a man like you, but I can give you from a man's perspective of what love feels like because my boyfriend and I write emails all the time to each other. He told me that he's never felt so safe and secure with a woman like me in a long time and I feel the same. When he wakes up in the mornings, he smiles knowing there's someone like me out there just thinking about him as he's away in Iraq. But, I think the biggest thing to letting you know that you're falling in love is when you can't stop thinking about that person. It seems that no matter where you are or where you look, you can almost imagine yourself with that person. You wait and long for that phone to ring, hoping it would be them. Little things they say and do are remembered by something someone else does. My boyfriend and I certainly did not start off all lovey dovey. It took us six years and the realization that we're tired of being crushed by others in the past. I'm older than he so there's that maturity level he's looking for. I need someone who can react with my 12 year old son. But, what makes our relationship different than the rest is how casual we can be. There ARE men that can just lay next to me without wanting more than just...cuddling. *Pleiades