@JimmyJ,
You're sensitive JimmyJ. I wonder if she is aware. Some women don't like the sensitive side of a man to be shown immidiately. Some like their true self, the true side of a man to be what is shown to them. Then once the woman has fallen that's when you should be sensitive. The kissing, being affectionate toward one another, else more.. too soon.
A tip. Find yourself a woman online. Use about a year or so to exchange words with one another in some form. Email, phone, chat room, something similar, I feel the feelings would be more intense if you kept away from texting, calling one another. See one another online by cam, speak on the phone with one another/or don't speak on the phone, get to know one another very well, doing so for about a year then meet in person. After a year. Feelings should be strong, and should grow more intense. Then after the first time of meeting in person, ((of course by then at the very end before meeting the two of you would have had to exchanged numbers, spoke with one another on the phone by then, texted, etc.)), meet one another ever so often throughout the following year. Say by end of third year the two of you should have a good understanding of one another. Propose. Days later get married.