After two long marriages, 10 and 11 years, I was over fairy tales. After about a year of second divorce, a friend and I went on Match.com I went out with three guys, one better than the other, but in the end they had issues I was not willing to overlook. I was done playing mother. I was so over it. Then one business trip to Maui, this person I admired from afar, and I assumed married, kinda sent me a really nice email but I ignored it. Six months later, I ran into him at another meeting in Virginia. We got talking and he said "I'd love to get to know you better." I kind of freaked out, and said I needed to find my group. Two days later, I had not seen him at any of the meetings and couldn't stop thinking about him. I left him a message at his hotel room, to see if he wanted to have a friendly drink. We kept missing each other the five days we were there. I saw him on my way to the airport, and I felt my knees buckle. Six years later tells me he will never forget seeing me walking down the stairs and his heart raising.
He lived in Texas and I in California, he was also much older than I thought, I was thinking 10 older, but he is actually 20 years older than me. At first I was not sure because of age difference, and it scared me. He'd fly every month to see me for a weekend and each one I felt more deeply in love him. We had a two year long distance relationship, then I moved to Texas. We are back to a long distance relationship, but we are very much in love and more committed to each other than ever.
Turned out fairly tales romances do exist.
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