I am one week shy of a year and a half in this long distance relationship. These past 6 months long distance have been wonderful. WAIT, did I just use "wonderful" and "long distance" in the same sentence? Yes, that was no mistake, J and are having fun now living only 2+ hours apart instead of 7 hours apart.

It certainly helps that now if something were to happen with either us, we would be able to come at a moment's notice. In fact, J visited three weekends in October to go to a concert, to watch me complete a marathon, and just for fun. Plus, with his medical school and my CPA studying, we are both super busy trying to achieve our dreams. The dream of "us" has been put on the backburner now. We have tried to think of ways around the distance like living together halfway between each city, but traffic can be so bad that instead of an hour commute it would be more like a two hour commute. With his class schedule and eventually hospital rotations and my 12+ hour work days, there would be no time to see each other anyways.

But we're okay with the backburner dream for now because we might be here for the next four years. Let me put this down for you. J is in medical school, which means a four year program. Once he gets out of medical school he is put into a residency lottery - whatever places you select to work at could be chosen. So if he puts Maryland, or Pennsylvania, or Texas... he could get chosen for any of those locations and we would have from March of 2015 to July to get movin'. I have a year lease that I'm signing in February so I'll be in Maryland till February of 2013. So even if I did move when my lease is up, there is a huge chance that after two years of living with J, I would have to move again for his residency.

And he can't move to MD because of school. So we're at a stalemate. I am a big believer that things happen for a reason. We are apart because J needs space to study and work hard, and so do I. He is currently making honors at medical school - wow- and it helps that little distracting me isn't there every day. And if J was here for my daily 4 hours study sessions after work, I'd go crazy.

Yes, everything happens for a reason and that's why we found each other. That is why after that miserable first year apart, after all of our strength and reserve withered away, we finally got a break and things became easier and happier. At the end of December we will be celebrating our two year anniversary. It has been a wild ride so far and we can already see that next year won't be an different. Marathons.. exams.. classes.. maybe grad school for me? Life is moving so fast, I can't even blink or it passes me by. <3

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