Whatswithme, good luck with this issue. If you ask her out and she says yes, and this relationship develops, it will likely be more difficult than any relationship that you've been in before. Just a warning buddy.
I consider myself retired from this hobby...at least for now because of a relationship that I have with an SP. For this, I am really grateful for her.
When I read this thread, I felt the need to give you my 2 cents. There have been many, many threads on this issue on this review board in the past and on other review boards. However, every situation would be different and have its unique circumstances.
I've seen many SPs, including over 40 Foxes from CF. The hobby was for fun and no strings attached encounters. But there have been a couple of times when an SP has asked me out for coffee or drink or dinner off the clock and I've met up with them, but I didn't have the desire to pursue more because I always thought of the hobby as no strings only time.
Five months ago, I met an SP that was fairly new to the business in Vancouver, and for the first ever in this hobby, my attraction to her was beyond the regular hobby/SP encounter - I wanted to get to know her. She quickly became my ATF, and then eventually it was actually her that initiated the first few proper dates, this was months ago.
Then we started to spend our free time together, sometimes, all of hers and all of my free time during a course of the week.
It has been rocky at times, and believe me, it is tough to accept that she continues to be an SP, but I had to accept it in order to make our relationship work.
Fast forward to now, we've become great friends, lovers, and maybe evenutally something even more. Or maybe something will happen and we decide not to continue the relationship. This past week alone, she didn't work that much, I spent nearly half the week with her. In general, we just enjoy each other's company.
She's a wonderfully magnificent person, and her own regular persona is much better than her work SP personality/character IMO. Just saying this because you never know, she maybe quite different when not working, you may like her more, or maybe less. For example, her good and bad reviews on her do not describe what she is really like when she is not working.
But without giving away the details, it isn't easy to maintain the relationship because the line of work she is in. But then again, any relationship isn't easy, and it is what it is. However, I wanted to get to know her, and so far, it was been an interesting ride.
She doesn't like it when I'm on this review board, so I'd better jet!
Good luck with this. I do agree with other posters on this thread that you really should see her again a few times, and see other SPs before you actually ask her out on a proper date.