Together At Last

It was the summer before my senior year in high school, and I was working at a small jewelery boutique, I walked into work one day (our store was in the same building as the town's fav. ice cream shop) and saw a verrrrry cute "older college boy". I was shy, and we barely even said a word to one another.

We stalked each other on Facebook for awhile, and talked occasionaly, but lost touch as the school year began.

The next summer, when he was home from college, he sent me an email, and asked if I wanted to go mini golfing with him. I was hesitant at first, just because I didn't really know him and was always shy around new people, but I knew just from our emails that he was someone that I would get along with.

After that night, we were pretty much unseperable. We spent the entire summer together and had so much fun! That fall, Mr. Pearl headed back to school in Minnesota, and I was stuck in Wisconsin.

We were in a long distance relationship for a year, and let me tell you, it was tough! We were only 5 hours away and we were able to see each other about once a month, but it was still so hard to say goodbye. And when I would go to visit him in Minneapolis, I would have butterflies for my entire trip.

After that year, Mr. Pearl and I knew that there was no way that we could keep doing it. We HAD to be together! So we made the big decision that I would take my college courses online, and that Mr. Pearl and I would move in together. It's been more than a year since we've moved in together, and while the adjustment period was def. difficult (especially because Mr. Pearl thinks he's an interior designer... ) kidding lover, kidding! we really couldn't be more happy!

I give so much credit to couples who are able to be in long distance relationships for longer than we were, or who literally never get to see each other.

While I would never want to go back to having a long distance relationship, I think that it made our relationship so strong. We had to learn to communicate with one another, or our relationship would have never survived.