I'm 30 and met a guy of 53 about 8 months ago. We instantly hit it off and text each other for hours pretty much every day. We have a lot in common and we've spoken about our wants and needs. We're both open in admitting we've developed feelings for each other and it's amazing to feel like I've found someone who "gets" me. He supports me through my down days and we have a lot of fun together. We're very good at the texting bit, and when we have met up it's been very natural and just like an extension of our conversations. We laugh a lot together. But, BIG but, each time we've met so far we've been with other friends. We have never actually spent any time alone together. Twice I've cancelled plans on him to meet up alone and once he's cancelled on me. We've both been a bit cautious but now does feel like it's about time we stopped hiding behind our phones and moved this into the "real world".
We've now made plans for in a couple of weeks to go away for the weekend together and, yeah, the plan is we probably will sleep together. God knows we've spoken about it often enough! But I am freaking out about it! It has set my anxiety right off and I feel sick every time I think about the weekend. Not the sex bit neccessarily, I'm fairly sure we're compatible there, just the shift that will inevitably happen to our textual relationship.
I know this is probably a bit daft and you're thinking stop making a drama out of nothing, but any advice to help me calm the hell down and just enjoy him would be greatly appreciated.