Hello LFD Community,
I found this site about a month ago, Signed up and this will be my first post about the love, that has grown over the 299 mile difference, For myself (Mike) and my lovely girlfriend (Amy).
Here is our story....
I had recently started a job working on the railroad in October of 2012, once I completed my training I was sent to Odessa,Tx, My plan was for short term living in a hotel till my seniority would allow me to go back home to Fort Worth. I had my friends out there with me so we spent lots of time hanging out but I never really got my roots settled there. Sitting in the hotel got kind of boring and I had signed up for a app on my phone that I assume is just for dating called "Meet Me". It wasn't to long till I got a message from Amy. What started off as me rambling on and on about my new job eventually turned into more engaging conversations. I was coming up on my 50 day test and that would allow me to be union protected, otherwise my job and all the training and work was for nothing. I promised her a first date as soon as this was behind me. Well I failed the first test, but assured her it was a small mistake I wouldn't make on my second test the following day. Sadly enough due to a disagreement with the manager I did not pass the second test. I remember texting her a sorry message and felt so bad that I never got to meet her, I remember her asking if I could meet at a Jack in the Box before I left, Again I had already packed and headed home to Fort Worth. So I thought that she would lose all interest in me, Who really wants to start something from a distance.
Again I was wrong cause Amy just couldn't stop texting me, soon we found we could video chat over skype and tango. I didn't know quite how to take all of this and it just seemed so far fetched, Then she made the first move asking me if she could come visit for a weekend. On May 24 she made the 4 1/2 hour drive to Fort Worth just to meet me, She stayed at her hotel the first 2 nights, Sunday we stayed up late trading stories and laughs. She stayed the night and the next morning we woke up and said our good byes. Again I wasn't sure if I had made a mistake or sent mixed signals by allowing her to stay with me. A few weeks later she asked if I would like another weekend with her, this time she stay with me the whole weekend. We sat by the pool at my apartments, swimming and talking all day, during the evening we had dinner and went to watch fireworks on top of a parking garage together. Sunday morning came and again we said our goodbyes, This was different for me. I felt more alive than I had months, this woman was weaving her web and I was stuck in it. Everything about her from the laughs,smiles, funny faces we make at each other. Why could we almost finish sentences or have the exact same thoughts about random things? I was falling for Amy and I felt so lost in dating her, "the distance would ruin it right", "She will find a guy in her town" "it will be to hard".....all these thoughts in my head and all I could do was fall deeper in love..
The 3rd visit was a little more unexpected, by this time we had determined we are a couple and we had a few bumps, mostly me thinking no way this is happening. It was a Friday and I remember telling her something about how I felt unsecure with this long distance relationship. It's a good thing she is so hard headed and wouldn't let me get away. Saturday I worked all day and I got a text message from her telling me that she had mailed a package a few days before and should be there, Do not open she wanted to skype with me when I opened it. I got home and no package, I sent a text and she said she would call me in a few minutes that she was finishing laundry. I sat and waited for about 30 minutes before I got a odd text telling me I needed to find my package outside. Surprise it was her to spend a weekend with me again!!! Done I'm in love!!!
Since then I have been there to meet her family and we found a happy middle point of Abilene Texas 2 1/2 hour drive for us each. There is now discussion of closing the distance next year and we both are so happy things went the way they did. Giving us each the chance to get to know one another and our love grows. From time to time we have our struggles and we still find a way to work it all out, staying in love, remembering whats important to us both.
I found this site about a month ago, Signed up and this will be my first post about the love, that has grown over the 299 mile difference, For myself (Mike) and my lovely girlfriend (Amy).
Here is our story....
I had recently started a job working on the railroad in October of 2012, once I completed my training I was sent to Odessa,Tx, My plan was for short term living in a hotel till my seniority would allow me to go back home to Fort Worth. I had my friends out there with me so we spent lots of time hanging out but I never really got my roots settled there. Sitting in the hotel got kind of boring and I had signed up for a app on my phone that I assume is just for dating called "Meet Me". It wasn't to long till I got a message from Amy. What started off as me rambling on and on about my new job eventually turned into more engaging conversations. I was coming up on my 50 day test and that would allow me to be union protected, otherwise my job and all the training and work was for nothing. I promised her a first date as soon as this was behind me. Well I failed the first test, but assured her it was a small mistake I wouldn't make on my second test the following day. Sadly enough due to a disagreement with the manager I did not pass the second test. I remember texting her a sorry message and felt so bad that I never got to meet her, I remember her asking if I could meet at a Jack in the Box before I left, Again I had already packed and headed home to Fort Worth. So I thought that she would lose all interest in me, Who really wants to start something from a distance.
Again I was wrong cause Amy just couldn't stop texting me, soon we found we could video chat over skype and tango. I didn't know quite how to take all of this and it just seemed so far fetched, Then she made the first move asking me if she could come visit for a weekend. On May 24 she made the 4 1/2 hour drive to Fort Worth just to meet me, She stayed at her hotel the first 2 nights, Sunday we stayed up late trading stories and laughs. She stayed the night and the next morning we woke up and said our good byes. Again I wasn't sure if I had made a mistake or sent mixed signals by allowing her to stay with me. A few weeks later she asked if I would like another weekend with her, this time she stay with me the whole weekend. We sat by the pool at my apartments, swimming and talking all day, during the evening we had dinner and went to watch fireworks on top of a parking garage together. Sunday morning came and again we said our goodbyes, This was different for me. I felt more alive than I had months, this woman was weaving her web and I was stuck in it. Everything about her from the laughs,smiles, funny faces we make at each other. Why could we almost finish sentences or have the exact same thoughts about random things? I was falling for Amy and I felt so lost in dating her, "the distance would ruin it right", "She will find a guy in her town" "it will be to hard".....all these thoughts in my head and all I could do was fall deeper in love..
The 3rd visit was a little more unexpected, by this time we had determined we are a couple and we had a few bumps, mostly me thinking no way this is happening. It was a Friday and I remember telling her something about how I felt unsecure with this long distance relationship. It's a good thing she is so hard headed and wouldn't let me get away. Saturday I worked all day and I got a text message from her telling me that she had mailed a package a few days before and should be there, Do not open she wanted to skype with me when I opened it. I got home and no package, I sent a text and she said she would call me in a few minutes that she was finishing laundry. I sat and waited for about 30 minutes before I got a odd text telling me I needed to find my package outside. Surprise it was her to spend a weekend with me again!!! Done I'm in love!!!
Since then I have been there to meet her family and we found a happy middle point of Abilene Texas 2 1/2 hour drive for us each. There is now discussion of closing the distance next year and we both are so happy things went the way they did. Giving us each the chance to get to know one another and our love grows. From time to time we have our struggles and we still find a way to work it all out, staying in love, remembering whats important to us both.
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