And this coming up here is why... they can't actually be an official couple just yet. Or at least one of the reasons. People who were screaming at them to make it official up until now, you don't know how hard it is when you have your own issues that you think you have to deal with on your own.
Shit, I've dated before, but I feel like I wasn't stable enough to have deserved that happiness at the time, because once the relationship was mutually called off and other things in my life started to fall by the wayside, I fell apart pretty readily and my ex, who was then just an awkward roommate, had to distance herself from me for her own protection because I had turned triggeringly depressed and she didn't need another stressor to add to the list. Those are my words, not hers. I realized how messed up I was being later, especially since I refused the advice she was giving me before it got to that point, so it was all on me for being an idiot.
I'm still working through that shit even now, to an extent. I'm definitely in a better place, but I need to get my shit together more before I feel like I deserve companionship again.