I Am In a Long Distance Relationship
In TEN days the love of my life will be here with me. I am so excited! We have been apart since the very end of July. It's been difficult. We've had our moments of chaos and stress, but we've pulled through it stronger than ever. I've already met his family and a few of his friends when I went to South Africa on a whim to be with him. Now he's doing the same for me, coming to my country and meeting my family and friends. After he meets them we can finally announce that we want to get married :D I'm elated. He makes me so happy. I'm so grateful.
A year ago I was so miserable and alone, thinking I would never find love again, after a traumatising experience a few years ago. Then, all of a sudden, I find this man. I downloaded Tinder, since I knew a few friends who have met their partners on there. I didn't have much luck at first, but then I chatted with him. Two days after messaging on Whatsapp we decide to go hiking in the hills of Scotland. We spent 12 hours together that day. No kissing. Nothing weird. Just a charming, wonderful time.
Since then we have been inseparable. I took a train up to the ecovillage he was studying at. Then he came back to see me and stay with me for a few weeks. Then we went to England and volunteered at an organic farm. He saw a South African friend in Brighton for a week after that, then he came back to see me for a few more weeks before going back to Cape Town. So the month of June was lonely for me because he was far away, but I decided to buy a ticket to see him for 4 weeks from the 28th of June to the 26th of July and had an amazing time.
Now he's coming to see me in TEN DAYS! I can't believe it. It's unreal. It's too real. It's hyper-realism. Surrealism. Insanity. 4 months apart. 4 months of missing each other madly. I have been cleaning my house extensively, getting rid of things we don't need. My dad let the house get very messy since I had been gone at university off and on for 3 years. Now I am back and have transformed the entire house into a happy, cleaner space. I'm preparing my home for my man, so that he can be smoothly integrated into our new life together.
I am ecstatic. I am infinitely blessed, and had I only known that this kind of happiness was waiting for me down the road I would never have wasted my time mourning failed relationships. Love can happen out of nowhere, quickly, indomitably, gloriously. In the end I am glad that I took the time to recover from being poorly treated by an ex partner. I still feel bad about the dating experiences I went through afterwards, but to know that I have learned so much about myself and have grown to the point where the relationship I am in now is all-empowering, enlightening, and profound is its own balm to my past wounds. I am healing; I will continue to heal and grow through the power of this love in which I have been blessed, and I am forever grateful.
A year ago I was so miserable and alone, thinking I would never find love again, after a traumatising experience a few years ago. Then, all of a sudden, I find this man. I downloaded Tinder, since I knew a few friends who have met their partners on there. I didn't have much luck at first, but then I chatted with him. Two days after messaging on Whatsapp we decide to go hiking in the hills of Scotland. We spent 12 hours together that day. No kissing. Nothing weird. Just a charming, wonderful time.
Since then we have been inseparable. I took a train up to the ecovillage he was studying at. Then he came back to see me and stay with me for a few weeks. Then we went to England and volunteered at an organic farm. He saw a South African friend in Brighton for a week after that, then he came back to see me for a few more weeks before going back to Cape Town. So the month of June was lonely for me because he was far away, but I decided to buy a ticket to see him for 4 weeks from the 28th of June to the 26th of July and had an amazing time.
Now he's coming to see me in TEN DAYS! I can't believe it. It's unreal. It's too real. It's hyper-realism. Surrealism. Insanity. 4 months apart. 4 months of missing each other madly. I have been cleaning my house extensively, getting rid of things we don't need. My dad let the house get very messy since I had been gone at university off and on for 3 years. Now I am back and have transformed the entire house into a happy, cleaner space. I'm preparing my home for my man, so that he can be smoothly integrated into our new life together.
I am ecstatic. I am infinitely blessed, and had I only known that this kind of happiness was waiting for me down the road I would never have wasted my time mourning failed relationships. Love can happen out of nowhere, quickly, indomitably, gloriously. In the end I am glad that I took the time to recover from being poorly treated by an ex partner. I still feel bad about the dating experiences I went through afterwards, but to know that I have learned so much about myself and have grown to the point where the relationship I am in now is all-empowering, enlightening, and profound is its own balm to my past wounds. I am healing; I will continue to heal and grow through the power of this love in which I have been blessed, and I am forever grateful.
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