I have a very interesting relationship with a girl I love VERY much. She knows I do and loves me too (though she always says she loves me more, I say no way). We've been together for over a year (our anniversary was on August 26th) and neither of us could imagine finding another person more perfect to be with.
So why is the relationship strained? Well...we currently live 10 timezones apart from each other.
I live in the U.S, state of Pennsylvania. Her family lives in Canada, where she was also living when we first met online, right here in the world of Gaia. We met in a thread in the exchange for the well-know exchanger [+Asia+], who was in the hospital and was considering leaving Gaia. A rally of other exchangers formed together and, well, tsk tsk tsk and I were part of that cause and got to talking.
We became friends, then quickly moved into a "Gaia-dating" relationship. We talked on MSN messenger quite a bit, always on the computer just to talk to the other person. By all definitions of it, we "less-than-three'd" each other very much.
So we decided that our Gaia relationship should become our real dating relationship. We talked of visiting each other in the summer of '06, but unfortunately, a new problem, larger than the distance we already had, came up.
She would be continuing High school education in Pakistan and staying with her Aunt there.
Needless to say, we were both depressed by this. A car trip during the summer or even a flight would have been possible if she hadn't had to leave mid-summer to get there and prepare for her new school with tougher classes. With this new wrench thrown into our dating machine, the visiting gears got jammed.
We have yet to even touch each other and we've already been dating for over a year.
Is it depressing sometimes? Somewhat. it's obvious that it's hard to go through every day without holding, kissing, touching the person you love so much. But has it taught us something that we are thankful for? Absolutely. We don't take a single moment for granted. We got to truly know the personality behind the person, something that may have been lost if we met IRL first. Paitience is a virtue both of us can now apply everywhere else in our lives.
The road has been long, and we've still got a long journey ahead of us, but it's a path both of us are going to take to the end.
Together. heart
 Corian · Sat Nov 11, 2006 @ 04:54pm · 17 Comments |
