thanks for all the advice...some of which i knew i would hear, but have been trying to ignore it.. this is a response i got to some questions i asked her -she emailed me...
she's sure she wants to save this friendship, she hasn't found anyone else, and not seeing anyone else, she likes that we can hang out and talk and do just about anything together and have a good time. she says she likes that she can be herself around me, but doesn't like when she feels like she can't say "no" to me, but that is something that will just take time for us to get used to. she said she likes my smile, and my sense of humor but doesn't like the negative outlook that i've developed over the last year or so but knows it's something i've been working on and have come a long way with it. she claims the friendship is not a way to lessen the blow of the breakup, and that the breakup itself, is over and if she didn't want anything more from me , she would just be done with it all together.. she does understand that if i need some time to take a step back to sort things out, that she'll give me all the time i need to do that. she says the possibilities for the future are endless, including dating me, but she doesn't see that in the near future and doesn't want to plan for that.
it all seems fair..