My girlfriend and I are both 24 years old. We have been very close friends for almost our entire lives, but didn't start dating until very recently. However, I have been very deeply in love with her for almost as long as we have known each other.
I was very dissapointed that I didn't get to go to the prom with her. I suffered from poor social skills in high school, and had to go with the daughter of a family friend who I wasn't even really friends with. To make matters even worse, the following year she got invited back to the prom because she was on court, and I could have had a second chance to go with her, but I didn't know they were inviting back the entire court until the day before the prom. It felt very painful knowing that I had let a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity slip through my fingers not once, but twice.
Since then, I have always wanted closure to this whole thing. I've been wanting to go to a black-tie dance with her so that I could experience what I've been wanting to experience all these years, but there aren't any to go to. I feel like the only way to have closure is to arrange my own black-tie dance. I want us to invite all our friends and have a DJ there and a photographer to do portraits of all the couples. I want the event to have a "be young at heart" theme to it.
I know that it's important to put the past behind you, but this is something that I've been wanting to experience with her for years. There are plenty of other painful things from my past that I can't do anything about, but now that I'm finally with her, I can finally experience something that I've been wanting to for years. Is it right for me to want to do this?