Back in high school I dated this girl who I was absolutely convinced was “the one.” We were that stereotypical couple everyone rolled their eyes at.. Typical young dumb and happy. We went to prom together, met each other’s families, and even talked about what life would look like after graduation.
Then came college. We ended up at different schools a few states apart. At first we tried long distance, but eventually the stress of new schedules, new friends, and being young got to us. We broke up. It was painful, but at the time it felt like the only option.
We didn’t talk for years. She built her career, I built mine. I dated other people, she did too. Every once in a while I would think about her and wonder how she was doing, but life kept moving.
Fast forward to 2022. I was on a work trip, and a mutual friend convinced me to go to a small get-together. I walked in, and there she was. Same smile, same laugh, but older, wiser, more grounded. We ended up talking the whole night like no time had passed at all.
After that we started catching up more seriously. I would try to get more trips in her city. Well that turned into dinners, dinners turned into weekend trips, and before I knew it we were back in each other’s lives in a way that felt even stronger than before. We both admitted that the time apart was necessary. We grew into the people we needed to be, and now we could actually appreciate each other the right way.
In June of 2024 we got married. Standing there felt surreal and still does typing this. Many years I felt I would never find “the one.” It turns out I already had.
This sub gets flooded with stories about love lost, relationships gone bad, cheating etc… Well I just wanna say there’s good out there.