What changed my mind? Hmm. I don’t really know. I don’t think it was really a single moment of epiphany. We’d been friends-with-sexual-tension (fwst?) for so very, very long. When we found out we had ended up going to the same medical school, it sort of just felt like fate slapping me in the face saying “Here, you idiot! Is this a clear enough sign? Date already!” So after I got over my initial reaction to do the OPPOSITE of what was expected of me, we did. Thank goodness.
Also, I had been given 4 years of college away from him to grow up a little. I was a little more confident with myself and how to be in a relationship. I wasn’t scared of a kiss or a touch anymore. So that helped.