I'm moving to the UK to be with my boyfriend in August!!
I knew it was true love from the first time we met when we were 17, but I second guessed it because I was young, and everyone told me I was too young to know..
We broke up because of the distance (Oxford, England to Niagara Falls, Canada.. ouch), and not being able to do anything about it at that age.. went off.. dated other people for nine years, but always kept in touch. And for the last.. oh.. *at least* three years, I've been wanting to send him a letter to him telling him that I still had feelings, but chickened out every time. So I finally grew balls (only metaphorically, thankfully!) last summer and told him one late night (for him) on msn.. and he replied by telling me that he also did, and hadn't said anything because he had figured he'd ruined his chances back then when we were young!
So.. he ended up coming to visit me right after Christmas, to see if we still had feelings for one another after spending a week together.. and oh my god, did we ever. So I visited the UK in March, and we decided on me moving there, for two years. I'm so excited, because we're going to do as much travelling as possible - I'm going to get to see all these places I've never seen before, and more importantly, I get to see them with him!!!
One of the reasons I know it's true love is because I've been completely dependant on my parents up until now, never wanting to become independant, move out, etc, because I was freaked out about the reponsibility, etc.. and now I'm not scared to at all, I just know I need to be with him.
I have a panic disorder that has caused me to not be able to fly in a plane (among many other things) since I was 18/19, because I had fear of having a panic attack on a plane (I have agoraphobia). But I braved it and flew to England myself in March because there was no way we were going to be able to be together if I couldn't get over the fear! I also didn't tell him about the disorder until after he went home from his visit in January, as I was scared of his reaction.. but he was so supportive and he has been my main support to help me get over my panic and anxiety and actually start doing things I couldn't before.
I've never felt so secure in a relationship as when I am with him - he is such a wonderful, caring person.. he does all those little things that show me he really cares - the kind of things we spend our teens and sometimes our twenties thinking "oh, that's so fake, no guy does that for a girl!!" He would move hell or high water for me, and I would do the same for him.
Love is an amazing thing when it's true - if only more people felt like this, I'm sure there would be less depression, less fighting, less war.. oooh I sound like John Lennon.. hahaha
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