This is somewhat intimidating but I didn't join this community to be a lurker, so here goes:
I'm a 43 year old mother of 3 (2 of them live with me) from Norway who's been through a lot in my adult life. Two serious relationships (married in one and engaged to get married in the 2nd) that both crashed and burned in the most horrible ways. It was enough to make me feel like I didn't want to even try again because of all the heartache involved, so I've been single for 7 years. Well, "single"...
Love always happens when you least expect it to, doesn't it? It sure did for me, at least. I've known my SO for 4 years now - we met in an online game (yes, I'm a gaming mom!), and after a couple of years my feelings towards him started to change although I didn't really know it at the time. It took me another year to realize and admit to myself that my feelings for him weren't of the "friends only" kind, and I felt like an idiot. Why? Because I've never thought much of online relationships, especially through an online game, and I felt stupid. It took a while for me to accept that I was in love with someone I'd never met, and I was struggling with jealousy too. But I eventually reached a point where there was no denying it any further, and somehow I found the courage to tell him.
It's now been a little over one year since I told him. He loves me, and I love him. I can't believe my luck! He's everything I could possibly ask for in a man, he soothes my soul (which was so hurt and broken after my two failed relationships), he understands me like no other man has ever done before, he reassures me and comforts me and simply sweeps me off my feet with his personality.
But of course, my life was apparently never meant to be easy. We're 4200 miles apart - he's in Canada and I'm in Norway. And not only that, but there's also a significant age gap the "wrong" way, i.e. I'm older than him. We're facing a lot of obstacles for us to overcome to make our dream come true, which is for me to move there and for us to get married. Sometimes I think it's too much for us to overcome and that this dream will probably never come true. But I can't give him up, I won't give him up because I love him so much.
Wish me luck everybody!
I'm a 43 year old mother of 3 (2 of them live with me) from Norway who's been through a lot in my adult life. Two serious relationships (married in one and engaged to get married in the 2nd) that both crashed and burned in the most horrible ways. It was enough to make me feel like I didn't want to even try again because of all the heartache involved, so I've been single for 7 years. Well, "single"...
Love always happens when you least expect it to, doesn't it? It sure did for me, at least. I've known my SO for 4 years now - we met in an online game (yes, I'm a gaming mom!), and after a couple of years my feelings towards him started to change although I didn't really know it at the time. It took me another year to realize and admit to myself that my feelings for him weren't of the "friends only" kind, and I felt like an idiot. Why? Because I've never thought much of online relationships, especially through an online game, and I felt stupid. It took a while for me to accept that I was in love with someone I'd never met, and I was struggling with jealousy too. But I eventually reached a point where there was no denying it any further, and somehow I found the courage to tell him.
It's now been a little over one year since I told him. He loves me, and I love him. I can't believe my luck! He's everything I could possibly ask for in a man, he soothes my soul (which was so hurt and broken after my two failed relationships), he understands me like no other man has ever done before, he reassures me and comforts me and simply sweeps me off my feet with his personality.
But of course, my life was apparently never meant to be easy. We're 4200 miles apart - he's in Canada and I'm in Norway. And not only that, but there's also a significant age gap the "wrong" way, i.e. I'm older than him. We're facing a lot of obstacles for us to overcome to make our dream come true, which is for me to move there and for us to get married. Sometimes I think it's too much for us to overcome and that this dream will probably never come true. But I can't give him up, I won't give him up because I love him so much.
Wish me luck everybody!
I really hope everything works out for you two !
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