Hi there!
My name is Lottie, I first found this website through Autostraddle after reading one of their articles on LDR's and I remember how happy I was to find a community of people in the same boat as my girlfriend and I. I was pretty shy about joining but Pip (my girlfriend) suggested that I might find the forums fun, so here I am!
Pip and I met one another through Tumblr at the beginning of 2014, through a shared love of the TV show Supernatural. I remember feeling very clearly on New Year's Eve of last year that something amazing and wonderful was going to happen in 2014, I'd gotten out of an unhealthy relationship that year and I was finally figuring myself out (I was with a guy, I'd been trying to fight the fact that I wanted to be with a girl for a long time because I was afraid to end things, and I finally admitted to myself and my ex what I wanted and we ended things amicably).
I moved back to my hometown and was able to make a fresh start, I decided to make a Tumblr where I could join in with a fandom I'd always wanted to be a part of, but I was nervous that nobody would want to be friends with me. I had no idea that I'd meet such amazing people through that blog, and my love. We started talking through little messages here and there and after we both posted pictures of ourselves we both developed huge crushes on one another, without the other even knowing it! We bonded first over SPN, and then over our shared love of the book Good Omens and the video game Mass Effect, and Pip reached out to help me when I began having issues with a guy at work which had brought up other issues from my past. I felt a really strong connection with her from the very beginning, and we began talking more and more. I remember sitting at my computer waiting for the little number '1' to pop up over my inbox, my hands would be shaking as I raced to get to it, knowing it was her. The moment we realized that we'd fallen in love was when we were discussing space, and we described our love and awe for it in the same way.
We talked for a few months, completely head over heels for one another, and although neither of us had been in a LDR in that way before we decided that we wanted to be together. I still remember her telling me 'I'd like to try being Trans-atlantic girlfriends'. We moved from talking just on Tumblr to also making videos for eachother on Youtube and using Voxer so that we could hear each other's voice, and then we had a Skype date. Pip didn't have a computer (actually still doesn't but we're working on it!) so she had to borrow a friends to Skype with me.
I'm constantly amazed that I could find somebody so incredibly perfect for me, it feels as though she was waiting for me to realize and accept what I really wanted in my life, to accept myself, and then she walked in, took my breath away and captured my heart completely.
It didn't take long for us to start discussing the idea of visiting one another, and we quickly settled on me visiting her in America first. I saved up everything I could and then in May I made the flight over to her in Arkansas, just over 2 weeks ago. Being with her was better than any dream I've ever had, and seeing her walk towards me for the first time and take me in her arms felt so incredibly right. I had the best time of my life with her and I never wanted to leave, however I returned to England on Saturday.
We'd timed my visit a little strangely because she was leaving on a family holiday at sea two days afterwards, and she left this evening for a week. It was so strange to get back to England after being with her, and I was scared about going from being together to suddenly being unable to talk regularly for the first time since we first began talking. Pip suggested that now would be a good time for me to introduce myself here so that I could talk to others in our situation and get support for when I'm feeling sad and low without her, which I thought was a really wonderful idea. This week is going to be really challenging, but I got to Skype with her this evening before she left and I know she'll be back with me again real soon. We're already planning the next visit, which will be her visiting me in September, and I'm so, so excited. Then after that we're planning for me to fly out to her again in January to spend my 25th birthday with her.
I'm really glad to have found a place where everybody seems so lovely and welcoming and I'm looking forward to becoming an active member here.
My name is Lottie, I first found this website through Autostraddle after reading one of their articles on LDR's and I remember how happy I was to find a community of people in the same boat as my girlfriend and I. I was pretty shy about joining but Pip (my girlfriend) suggested that I might find the forums fun, so here I am!
Pip and I met one another through Tumblr at the beginning of 2014, through a shared love of the TV show Supernatural. I remember feeling very clearly on New Year's Eve of last year that something amazing and wonderful was going to happen in 2014, I'd gotten out of an unhealthy relationship that year and I was finally figuring myself out (I was with a guy, I'd been trying to fight the fact that I wanted to be with a girl for a long time because I was afraid to end things, and I finally admitted to myself and my ex what I wanted and we ended things amicably).
I moved back to my hometown and was able to make a fresh start, I decided to make a Tumblr where I could join in with a fandom I'd always wanted to be a part of, but I was nervous that nobody would want to be friends with me. I had no idea that I'd meet such amazing people through that blog, and my love. We started talking through little messages here and there and after we both posted pictures of ourselves we both developed huge crushes on one another, without the other even knowing it! We bonded first over SPN, and then over our shared love of the book Good Omens and the video game Mass Effect, and Pip reached out to help me when I began having issues with a guy at work which had brought up other issues from my past. I felt a really strong connection with her from the very beginning, and we began talking more and more. I remember sitting at my computer waiting for the little number '1' to pop up over my inbox, my hands would be shaking as I raced to get to it, knowing it was her. The moment we realized that we'd fallen in love was when we were discussing space, and we described our love and awe for it in the same way.
We talked for a few months, completely head over heels for one another, and although neither of us had been in a LDR in that way before we decided that we wanted to be together. I still remember her telling me 'I'd like to try being Trans-atlantic girlfriends'. We moved from talking just on Tumblr to also making videos for eachother on Youtube and using Voxer so that we could hear each other's voice, and then we had a Skype date. Pip didn't have a computer (actually still doesn't but we're working on it!) so she had to borrow a friends to Skype with me.
I'm constantly amazed that I could find somebody so incredibly perfect for me, it feels as though she was waiting for me to realize and accept what I really wanted in my life, to accept myself, and then she walked in, took my breath away and captured my heart completely.
It didn't take long for us to start discussing the idea of visiting one another, and we quickly settled on me visiting her in America first. I saved up everything I could and then in May I made the flight over to her in Arkansas, just over 2 weeks ago. Being with her was better than any dream I've ever had, and seeing her walk towards me for the first time and take me in her arms felt so incredibly right. I had the best time of my life with her and I never wanted to leave, however I returned to England on Saturday.
We'd timed my visit a little strangely because she was leaving on a family holiday at sea two days afterwards, and she left this evening for a week. It was so strange to get back to England after being with her, and I was scared about going from being together to suddenly being unable to talk regularly for the first time since we first began talking. Pip suggested that now would be a good time for me to introduce myself here so that I could talk to others in our situation and get support for when I'm feeling sad and low without her, which I thought was a really wonderful idea. This week is going to be really challenging, but I got to Skype with her this evening before she left and I know she'll be back with me again real soon. We're already planning the next visit, which will be her visiting me in September, and I'm so, so excited. Then after that we're planning for me to fly out to her again in January to spend my 25th birthday with her.
I'm really glad to have found a place where everybody seems so lovely and welcoming and I'm looking forward to becoming an active member here.
so I'm really glad you came and said hello to me here.
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