Is it okay to date when separated?

[mduffy31]

Now when I say separated, my wife walked out and has literally not talked to me in 5 months. Recently I have been socially seeing a person that I worked with. She recently left where I worked and we were just keeping in touch because when you work as closely as we did you do form a bond, except I had developed a little bit of a crush on her. But I couldn't help it, she is beautiful, not just physically, but in spirit also. Now the other night things kind of changed, and she told me that she also had some feelings for me. Now I have thought about this, but never in my wildest dreams did I ever think that the hottest girl that I work for would want to got out with me of all people. Really hot girls never go out with guys like me, and we are polar opposites when it comes to some things. She is leaving the nursing profession to become a social worker to "save the world." The one person that I work with that knows because we are keeping it on the down low tells me that she thought it was inevitable. I guess when I was off for three weeks after a recent surgery, she told me that she really figured out how much she really missed having me around. Now I am at peace with all of this, my wife isn't going to come back and I need to move on in my life. Now her and I have discussed all of this, and there is some trepidation on both sides, but we are just going to take it one day at a time and see where it goes, but my residual Catholic guilt is also there, so kids tell me I am not going to go to hell for this.