please help

[bsanden]

there's this girl i had met almost 2 years ago on a trip with one of my friends during spring break of our freshman year of high school(i am now a junior). i kept talking to the girl and i hadn't went to visit her. within the past few months things have really got going between us and i've been going to see her about once a week. i honestly love this girl more than anything in the world and there's no way in hell i could ever let her go, and she tells me she loves me the same. the problem is, she said she's just afraid of relationships and needs some time to think about things. my best friend told me that she had been in an abusive relationship with her last boyfriend. she had not told me this, and still has not admitted to it. this is obviously what she is afraid of, and we have both mentioned the distance is not really a problem. i'm just not sure what to do though to make her realize that i would never hurt her. please help me, this girl means everything to me.

[Diablo]

Do not push with this. She still wants to see you. You can't hurry how long it will take her to get comfortable with you. She could overcome her fears relatively quickly or it could take a while. The last thing you need to do is put pressure on her. The abusive guy did that. Make sure she enjoys the time she spends with you and say nothing to her about her fears. This is something she has to work out for herself and pressure from you to see that you won't hurt her will backfire on you.

[piratesmate]

As Diablo said, go slow.
Don't push or you will push her farther away.
Give her time.