<human>: We've known each other for a few years now just from having mutual friends but we only first hung out as friends back at the end of May.

We really hit it off and has slowly progressed to us being closer and closer but she is opposed to us actually being a couple, and I'm not really sure what to do

We spend lots of time together, and enjoy doing couply things and there is certainly no lack of attraction. She makes the odd random compliment every now and again and calls me sweet or nice whenever I compliment her. We've established that we're both technically single and could do whatever we like, but that we'd both be jealous if it were to happen. We're very open in our discussions which I really enjoy but she hasn't really managed to convince me on her reasoning.

She's said if we were together, my nice gestures would be part of us being a couple, instead of just the random acts of kindness they are now. She's also mentioned that it would mean her depending on me emotionally and that the dynamic of our relationship would change.

I wanna believe part of this is that her past boyfriends have been pretty crappy and she's not really ready to commit to someone again, but she seems afraid of the label more than anything. This makes sense as she is very concerned with others opinions of her. She also has some really unwarranted self esteem issues that I'm working on fixing

Can you give me the gist of the text in a nutshell?
<bot>: Involved with girl, doesn't want to commit 'officially' despite kind of already being as such. What do