Dear Jess~
Welcome to the Forum, I see Sophie_M has given you some links, they are sensible and do tend to be abut your situation -many people are frightened of starting a relationship, even before Covid-19 came along and made it more complicated
I guess one of the ways of looking it is the fact it should not be just you doing all the giving and having all the worry. If it is going to work out to be a good thing together them both of you have to be involved and looking after each other.
Right now at the start your worry over the virus restrictions are very sensible ones. I don't know your circumstances, if you are in isolation then your choices are limited, and seeing each other over the phone might be the only way. If you both go to the same place then it gets more complicated, perhaps you might like to say which?
Perhaps the two most difficult things to deal with are first missing out, that unless you respond straight away and as much as possible the relationship may never start - and what's worse there may not be another chance. I felt exactly that way over a girl the first time I asked for a date, and it was the end of the world when it did not work out. I was broken.
I was wrong of course and other opportunity came alone and things were fine.
The other problem, which as someone with anxiety I know very well, is that it is very easy to invent plausible excuses for not doing anything, for example are you sure it is the virus that is holding you back, or general shyness and anxiety? I've invented all sorts of excuses when at school/uni not to approach someone, even used homework as the reason:)
I think if you have already told this person you have some mental health conditions and he is an OK sort then he will understand if you are nervous and wish to wait, and will wish to wait too. Perhaps talking with him about it might be a good way to go? Very hard to bring the subject up, but there are two of you, he might be able to help put you at ease ready to talk.
Do you have a friend or family member you can talk this over with? They might have faced something similar themselves?
I hope you come back and talk some more, it will work out OK, you are not alone
Croix
