It’s wild to think I dreamed of living this life years ago. This may have not been exactly what I dreamed it’d be like. But the countless nights of dreaming and hoping and praying I’d end up here is wild to me.
I met the love of my life several years ago via social media. We talked and video chatted for the longest and got to know each other and eventually met in person and one thing led to another in a complete plot twist and a half of events that will leave you stunned.
When we first met; there was something different about him to me. At the time, I was roughly 16-17 when I met him, and neither of us had really any experience in a healthy relationship, nor were neither of us mature enough to be in a true healthy relationship. But as most teenagers, we ‘dated’ despite that and hurt each other a lot. But regardless to how much we hurt each other I knew he was different and I always came back. I constantly told people he was ‘mine’ and that id marry him one day. I can remember friends laughing after the hell we’d put each other through all these years and I’d still say that stuff.
After years of back and forth and really never being able to let each other go, we walked away for what we believed to be the last time. I began a new relationship, as did he. But as always, I quickly found myself wanting to know every little thing about what he was doing. We shortly fell back into contact and as always I was sucked right back into the fire. I began to rethink my relationship at the time, and called a break, in which I used the time to spend a night with my love and see if ‘there was even anything there still’. In an odd twist I somehow ended up back in the relationship and not single. And once again lost contact with my love.
Flash forward a few months to a year and I had moved to Arizona with my at the time partner and were living temporarily with my parents. Once again, I’d come into communication with him. And there was no way I was losing him again.
Quickly started the dreams and fantasizing about things changing and being back together with him. This carried on for roughly a year. Staying in contact and falling harder as time passed.
After almost a year, getting my first apartment, and a traumatic few events I’d made the decision to come home. Sold things we couldn’t take with us, packed the apartment up, flew home.
After arriving home, I quickly realized I couldn’t stay in my relationship. I haven’t been happy for a couple years and I’m not sure why I couldn’t bring myself to leave sooner.-I’m not a super religious person, but I truly believe god brought me home for a reason.- after a couple months and slowly pulling myself out of the whole I was sitting in, I decided to finally end things. Unfortunately they beat me to it and asked me if I felt trapped. I froze and went to say no but my head shook no and I said yes.
I moved out that night. I stayed with a friend for a week and then moved back with my grandparents.
At this time I also reconnected with my love and we decided to give this one last time. It’s been a long road. We’ve had bumps, and some I wasn’t sure we’d get past. But this man and I have both grown and changed for the better.
We’re now engaged, expanded the family by one handsome little man, working on our relationship daily, working hard to build up our future and live out the rest of our dreams together. This is more than 16yo me could have ever even asked for let alone imagined. It’s kind of healing to know we made it.