friends or more than friends?

[aljo1]

I met a wonderful lady on the internet..we chatted every day for two months non-stop. We started a very meaningful relationship from far away..I was in LA, she was here in El Salvador.

When I met her in person, I started noticing that she looked older than I expected. She looked like she was near her 40´s(she says she´s 31)..and instead of complementing her I almost told her right away about her appearance.

I know that by having so many inexperiences on romantic relationships and being so inmature(I´m almost 32)I blew it. My family(an older brother and an older sister)started noticing that I was going out to lunch with her, and I started telling her all about their judgemental thoughts about her...which she didn´t like. For a while, we started seeing each other often, became boyfriend and girlfriend secretly. We never had any intimacy..nor was she planning on having one or looking for a love interest until the moment was right.

She´s very educated, works for a military radio station, earns good money in a country where the pay is low. Has a daughter who appears in a tv show on weekdays, and who she says she´s 16(but any other reference says that she´s 19). she says she has 2 other daughters which are not hers..but her brother´s who recently died(their mother also died), and is divorced/separted.

She told me that I was like a baby, over protected, that she would be with

somebody who would love her as she is. She says that she´would want stay single, because no men has replaced the love her ex husband had for her..evrything about his ex was right..except that he cheated on her many times, and she left him. She says she knows another official(she´s a military person)who says he is interested in her, and likes her as she is..that they know each other since 2 years. I went back to square one and she told me I was only her friend, that she cared for me a lot, and that she wants me so much.

What you guys think? Should I try to win her back,now that I have deeper feelings for her, to become more than friends? Or should I be just her friend and start to look for some other romantic relationship(gradually of course)?

Thanx.