This is off of my Tumblr dedicated to mine and Daniel's relationship, which has been ongoing for seven months.
Although Daniel and I are both YouTube users, Daniel and I met on Facebook. I noticed that he was liking a lot of my posts and I thought that he was cute, so I went and looked at his pictures. I ended up accidentally tagging myself in one, so I messaged him to apologize. He said that it was okay and we began casual conversation. I found out that he was from Brisbane, Australia, but that didn’t stop me from developing an interest in him. I am from North Adams, Massachusetts, so it is a far cry from the continent of Australia. It was around my seventeenth birthday [February 8th] when this developed. I was incredibly nervous to talk to him. I kept talking and raving on to my friend Cameron about how handsome I believed Daniel was, but I told him that I was so nervous to talk to him because I liked him so much. Then Cameron proverbially knocked some sense into me. He told me that if I really want this guy, I have to continue talking to him and show that I wanted him. So, I took his advice and Daniel and I just clicked. I felt a great connection with Daniel, and bit the bullet. I asked him to be my boyfriend on Valentine’s Day of this past year. It was the beginning of a prosperous relationship. Despite our age difference–I am 17, he is 19–we’re happy together. We began going into love conversations, as well as deep conversations about our futures.
This was until April/May of this year. I began to grow tired of the distance, and soon began to question the relationship. It was during this time that I became very lonely, caught up in a lot of school work, and began to feel very isolated. It was because of this that I decided to sever my relationship with Daniel initially because the distance broke my heart. We were both heartbroken during this time. I was in Boston on a school field trip, and tried to ignore my new found singledom in the lights of the city. I began to pursue real life relationships, and found a potential suitor on the internet. However, the male wasn’t right for me and very interested in one thing instead of who I was. The date was extremely awkward. Not only that, I was lonelier than ever before. I was about to ask Daniel out again, but then became involved with another female.
Then a life event hit. My mother was hospitalized for having several strokes. She had been having these for a while, and we didn’t know what they were. We expected her to be in the hospital for two days. She ended up requiring major surgery on her 99% blocked carotid artery. During this time, the person that I was with was there for me a little bit but there wasn’t as much communication as usual. Combined with the stress in my life, I felt even more lonely and couldn’t handle it. I suddenly became a 17 year old who had to take most of the last week of her Junior year of high school off to manage a two bedroom apartment on her own–buying groceries, feeding the cats & taking care of them, and waking up alone. I didn’t know how to handle it, but I felt that I was doing the best that I could.
During this, Daniel was a great support, and during an excursion where I had coffee with a friend, I found myself falling for him once again. I had realized that distance didn’t matter when someone loves you and you love someone deeply. While that I feared for my mother’s life, Daniel was one of the people that made me feel less lonely on my own and one of the reasons that I kept being strong, along with friends that continually supported me. On June 20th, 2015, I felt that there was no longer any point in hiding our feelings for each other. I asked him out again. Now, we’re back together and still happier than ever. My mother is currently recovering, albeit slowly, but recovering. Life isn’t perfect, but it’s getting better. I look forward to some day closing the distance with Daniel and leading a happy life with him.
As of August 24th, we are currently engaged. And trying to make it.
Although Daniel and I are both YouTube users, Daniel and I met on Facebook. I noticed that he was liking a lot of my posts and I thought that he was cute, so I went and looked at his pictures. I ended up accidentally tagging myself in one, so I messaged him to apologize. He said that it was okay and we began casual conversation. I found out that he was from Brisbane, Australia, but that didn’t stop me from developing an interest in him. I am from North Adams, Massachusetts, so it is a far cry from the continent of Australia. It was around my seventeenth birthday [February 8th] when this developed. I was incredibly nervous to talk to him. I kept talking and raving on to my friend Cameron about how handsome I believed Daniel was, but I told him that I was so nervous to talk to him because I liked him so much. Then Cameron proverbially knocked some sense into me. He told me that if I really want this guy, I have to continue talking to him and show that I wanted him. So, I took his advice and Daniel and I just clicked. I felt a great connection with Daniel, and bit the bullet. I asked him to be my boyfriend on Valentine’s Day of this past year. It was the beginning of a prosperous relationship. Despite our age difference–I am 17, he is 19–we’re happy together. We began going into love conversations, as well as deep conversations about our futures.
This was until April/May of this year. I began to grow tired of the distance, and soon began to question the relationship. It was during this time that I became very lonely, caught up in a lot of school work, and began to feel very isolated. It was because of this that I decided to sever my relationship with Daniel initially because the distance broke my heart. We were both heartbroken during this time. I was in Boston on a school field trip, and tried to ignore my new found singledom in the lights of the city. I began to pursue real life relationships, and found a potential suitor on the internet. However, the male wasn’t right for me and very interested in one thing instead of who I was. The date was extremely awkward. Not only that, I was lonelier than ever before. I was about to ask Daniel out again, but then became involved with another female.
Then a life event hit. My mother was hospitalized for having several strokes. She had been having these for a while, and we didn’t know what they were. We expected her to be in the hospital for two days. She ended up requiring major surgery on her 99% blocked carotid artery. During this time, the person that I was with was there for me a little bit but there wasn’t as much communication as usual. Combined with the stress in my life, I felt even more lonely and couldn’t handle it. I suddenly became a 17 year old who had to take most of the last week of her Junior year of high school off to manage a two bedroom apartment on her own–buying groceries, feeding the cats & taking care of them, and waking up alone. I didn’t know how to handle it, but I felt that I was doing the best that I could.
During this, Daniel was a great support, and during an excursion where I had coffee with a friend, I found myself falling for him once again. I had realized that distance didn’t matter when someone loves you and you love someone deeply. While that I feared for my mother’s life, Daniel was one of the people that made me feel less lonely on my own and one of the reasons that I kept being strong, along with friends that continually supported me. On June 20th, 2015, I felt that there was no longer any point in hiding our feelings for each other. I asked him out again. Now, we’re back together and still happier than ever. My mother is currently recovering, albeit slowly, but recovering. Life isn’t perfect, but it’s getting better. I look forward to some day closing the distance with Daniel and leading a happy life with him.
As of August 24th, we are currently engaged. And trying to make it.
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