I (18M) am in love with a girl (19F) that has recently gotten out of a year long relationship. I will tell the story from the beginning, which starts a little more than a year ago.

I met her on holiday a year ago, we flirted and hit it off immediately. But what I soon found out is that she was dating another guy as well. I talked to her for months, trying to 'win her over'. Eventually I asked her the question 'do you ever see us being together?' and she said no. After that I cut off all contact, up until a few months ago.

I met her again, and first things started off purely friendly, no romance. After being very good friends for like a month, it started to occur to me that I was falling in love again. We began flirting again, and stuff has only escalated since. We currently talk daily and often spend time together, and it's pretty clear we both like each other.

The thing is, all this happened while she was still in a relationship with the guy, albeit not a very good relationship. The relationship was long distance, and not very functional. They would barely see each other. Her friends have been telling her to break up with him for ages.

The guy is very depressed, and a reason she had not to break it off was because she was scared he would kill himself, or do other kinds of harm to himself. Next to that she was also very afraid of letting go, and found it very hard to find the courage to break it off.

Very recently, she made the decision to break up with him. I'm in love with her, but scared I'll simply be a coping mechanism for her if we start a relationship now. We have a very strong emotional bond, and know basically everything about each other, it's not purely sexual.

In any other situation my common sense would say 'don't do it, it's a rebound', but I think it could work out in the long term, because in the last few months, her relationship was barely a relationship, they almost never saw each other. I was more of a 'boyfriend' than he was. There's also the fact that she's the one that broke it off. We met way more often than they did and had a lot of fun together. She would even talk about how here parents would see her getting happier after being with me, which to me is a sign that it could really be love.

Am I delusional and just blinded by love, or could this work out? Please be honest.

Thanks for any reponses!

TLDR: I'm in love with a girl that has just gotten out of a year long, long-distance relationship. We have history together and have had a fling before.