I met a couple of people on Experience Project in real life and...
Experience Project (EP) was a safe place for me to share things I felt I couldn't with my family or friends. I remember the community on EP being a warm and embracing safe place and I met a couple of people from it in real life. Although both connections had to end in a bittersweet way, they each had quite an impact on my life.
The first person, he and I had connected over a post I had made about my struggles with acceptance of losing my first relationship. That was hell, but it has been many years and whenever I look back, I wish I let that first relationship go sooner as my EP friend had advised me. This person from EP was from a completely different continent and they decided to take a plane to visit me, support me through my darkest times ... he disapproved with a lot of the decisions I had made over that first boyfriend, and it was a huge stressor on our friendship. I do not know what happened to him now, but I hope he is well.
The second person, he too messaged me on a post I had shared. We talked for a couple of months and I started to visit him monthly in his country until we "officialized" our relationship. There was a huge age-gap between him and I, and our families did not approve of our relationship. Not going to lie, I felt a bit strange about the age-gap in the relationship myself at times... The relationship started to get really intense as his substance abuse issues started to surface and things fell apart when I decided to go back to school. I realized recently that, regardless of all the terrible things that happened between me and this person, he really did genuinely care about me at some point during our time spent together. He gave me (5) five whole Bitcoins and asked me to keep them and he prayed for my financial success. I am so grateful to him.
To these men who guided me through some pretty challenging times in my very early adult years - thank you.
The first person, he and I had connected over a post I had made about my struggles with acceptance of losing my first relationship. That was hell, but it has been many years and whenever I look back, I wish I let that first relationship go sooner as my EP friend had advised me. This person from EP was from a completely different continent and they decided to take a plane to visit me, support me through my darkest times ... he disapproved with a lot of the decisions I had made over that first boyfriend, and it was a huge stressor on our friendship. I do not know what happened to him now, but I hope he is well.
The second person, he too messaged me on a post I had shared. We talked for a couple of months and I started to visit him monthly in his country until we "officialized" our relationship. There was a huge age-gap between him and I, and our families did not approve of our relationship. Not going to lie, I felt a bit strange about the age-gap in the relationship myself at times... The relationship started to get really intense as his substance abuse issues started to surface and things fell apart when I decided to go back to school. I realized recently that, regardless of all the terrible things that happened between me and this person, he really did genuinely care about me at some point during our time spent together. He gave me (5) five whole Bitcoins and asked me to keep them and he prayed for my financial success. I am so grateful to him.
To these men who guided me through some pretty challenging times in my very early adult years - thank you.
31-35, F
