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Don’t know if I really like him or using him as a rebound…/ Do you think this new guy is serious about me?

About me: Average looking asian girl, 5’4 of height, 117 pounds, black/brown hair, brown eyes (well you know your typical asian lol)

So I met this guy online. No, he’s not a creep and isn’t desperate. He’s average looking, 6’1 of height, weighs 165, curly brown hair, blue.. hint of yellow eyes and is Caucasian. We talked for a whole month before he came down to visit me on my birthday. A lot of things happen in between but I want to keep it short and straight to the point! I had the most amazing time when he came down… it was like a romantic love story featuring him and I. The only thing we did was kiss on a ferry and then again on bench across the river. He just makes me feel so good about myself… so sincere… so genuine. In order words, he makes me very happy. He’s such a dork! Then soon after we made it official a month after my birthday ( he drove 11 hours to get here btw O_O).

The only reason I choose to pursue him is because he is transferring to my state this Summer. He got accepted already and will be finding an apartment this summer also. I usually don’t believe in long distant relationships but he is moving down here! If it works out long distantly then I figured that I wasn’t only dating him as a rebound. Then he came down that weekend before Valentine’s day to visit me. Though he couldn’t stay because he had school on Monday, we were able to spend out first pre-valentine’s day together. It was lovely and he got me a silver gold necklace. He told his family about me and about how he was going to transfer to my state for school. Another month came and it was Spring Break, of course it was my turn to come see him. He took me mining, he made me watched his fav movie ( good will hunting) , took me to the smoky mountains ( ha I gave away his location)…. SO MUCH MORE!!! I thought it was too soon to meet his parents, but he made me go anyways. lol I was able to meet his whole family but except for his dad ( he works and travels a lot). His family loves me and especially his mom. When I hugged her before I left, she came in for another hug… she was about to cry. I guess I give great hugs. =P He paid for everything when I came to visit and even took me shopping. I didn’t have a job/money at the time. He’s so darn thoughtful!! He knows I love sunflowers so he picked out a sunflower dress with matching yellow slippers!!! All the good guys are taken and he just happened to got out of a relationship so I feel LUCKY though I never told him. ANYWAYS!!!!! Though, he lives 2 states away from me… he is making a great effort to make it work so I know that he is serious about me. We never had sex so I know he’s not in it for the pleasure. I’m waiting for marriage mind you! He is moving way to fast though… he got me a kay’s necklace and thus meeting his family. He even pays for my plane tickets and Im coming to see him again this Easter Break.

Okay now let me add some crucial significances to make this story come together. I met him right after I broke up with my ex- bf ( my first bf/lover and we’ve been together for 4 good years). I’m not going into deep detail about what really happened but we were on good terms when I dumped him ( well until he found out about the new guy… haha my ex-bf doesn’t want to talk me again though he wants to get back with me). I dropped all contact with my ex-bf because I felt bad if I keep talking to him. I didn’t develop feelings for the new guy until after a good month of talking to him. I don’t know if age matters but I’ll throw it in for fun. My ex-bf is 26 and the new guy is 9 months younger than me. I’m in college and so is this new guy.

So the past few days, I felt a little distant with the new guy. I felt as if … I didn’t really like him and is losing interest in him. He has already slipped the “L” word like he says it to me all the time. He told me he loved me 2 days before Valentine’s day. Oh yeah another thing I forgot to mention… he broke up with his gf about 1-2 months before my breakup with my ex-bf. They’ve dated for 3 years until she decided to leave. Again, the new guy wants me to come down to visit him again this Easter break. Apparently, he wants to see me every month until he comes down officially so we take turns visiting each other. For some odd reason, when I realize that I might not really like the new guy…I started missing my ex. =( You can’t control your emotions sometimes.

*****SORRY ! I tried to make it as short as possible but I also tried to include good information so you can see my point of view!!!

PLEASE READ: ANSWER question 1 and 2 in title!
******”Though I prefer girl’s or guy’s view on the 1st question” and “a guy’s view on the 2nd question”~~ BUT ANY ADVICE WOULD BE MOST HELPFUL! I’ll take anyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy and I’ll answer any question you need!

How can starch in sunflower seeds help cardinals to survive?

Cardinals are birds that do not migrate but spend the winter in New York State. Many people feed these birds sun flower seeds during the winter months. Explain how the starches in the present in the sunflower seeds help the cardinals to survive.

When to re-pot a sunflower?

So I quite literally kill every plant I ever try to grow. After years of dead, twiggy-looking pots of mess, I gave up any hope of ever being a botanist, and was perfectly content to get flowers on my birthday and anniversary and the odd Tuesday night, that were already grown, cut and would inevitably die within 3-4 days. This worked beautifully until my (almost) six year old came home with a Santa Claus Dixie cup full of dirt and claimed it was a ‘Mammoth Sunflower‘. I patted him on the head and stuck it on top of the microwave (which incidentally is nowhere near a window or natural light source,) and figured I’d toss it in the next few days.

Unbeknownst to me, my husband watered it over the next week or so, and suddenly one day there were leaves lopping up out of the soil. A week after that, there was a few inches of stem and it was leaning to the far left, in an attempt to be closer to the light from the window across the kitchen. We decided to take it outside and leave it on our porch to give the poor thing a chance.

With a dedication I have never seen before, my son started caring for the plant every day. He would check on it whenever we entered or left the house, and he even filled a plastic bottle with water and left it on the porch as well so he would remember to water it every day. Soon after, it was about eight inches tall, and looked too big for the cup. I called a friend of mine, and she helped me re-pot it into a plastic 8 in tall x 8 inch diameter pot. I accidentally killed one of the two sprouts, literally by touching it, so she stuck a new sunflower in the pot ‘for good luck’.

Well, now the darn thing is about 18 inches, and the ‘just for luck’ seed is about 12 inches. They are growing beautifully, and my son still waters them every day and checks on them religiously. However, now that the two plants are so large, the 8 inch pot seems really small and crowded. The sprouts/stems/ whatever (there are no flowers yet, just stems and leaves), are about 1-2 cm apart. Should I re-pot them again? I’m worried that the roots might be all tangled together, and will rip if I try to separate them, but on the other hand, I don’t want them to strangle each other as they get bigger. I CANNOT kill this thing after all the care and hard work my little guy has put into it. What should I do? I also don’t want to spend a lot of money on a huge pot, nor do we have room for one (we live in an upper-lower with a shared porch that is about 5′x5′.) As per our lease, we are also not permitted to plant it anywhere on the property. Does anyone garden-savvy know if it would be best to leave well enough alone, or if they are getting to the point where they will kill each other?

Thanks in advance!
Hmmmm… Right now they’re not leaning because we put a stick in to ‘tether’ the stems to with a twist tie. They were too weak to stand upright before, but now they are standing upright. Do sunflowers still lean? I know full grown ones have a pretty sturdy stem, not like other flowers. This is the first flower I’ve ever seen grow from a seed and not die a terrible death, much less my first sunflower!