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"A Twist of Coincidences"

By Eric   9/29/2008

I met my beautiful girl at a local bible camp where I go every year. Coincidentally enough it was the first time she ever went to a co-ed camp, and this is the one she decided to go to. It was 2005 and I was 15; just finished grade 9. She is a year younger than me, so she would be 14. We were young. I first saw her sitting at a table waiting for the outtrip to be organized. When I saw her there I thought she was the prettiest thing I've ever laid my eyes on. I usually never would talk to girls (especially the pretty ones) because I was a shy person. But something inside me pushed me to talk to her. So I did. I sat down across from her, and started with small talk. I kept thinking, "What am I doing here? She must think I'm a total creep". But surprisingly she talked back, and we were getting along great. I sat near her on the car ride to the outtrip drop off point, and I developed a major crush on her while talking with her. And during the 2-4 hour hike throughout the mountains I kept searching for her so I could spend more time with her.

During the entire outtrip we spent every moment together, whether coincidence or not; that's how much we did. I pulled a corny move and put a flower in her hair because I thought she might like it. lol, though that night I went to bed going, "Wow that was so lame." lol. But apparently she loved it. So we grew very close, but I never thought she liked me like I liked her. And for the rest of camp I made it my goal to ask her out, or tell her of my feelings. One time I had got the guts up to do it, but I became ill and bed-ridden. I was so sick even walking was difficult, so I couldn't talk to her. The other time I got the guts to was the end of camp. And I searched frantically for her to finally tell her my feelings, and I was so excited. But my best friend informed me that she had already left and I felt my heart sank because I felt I lost the greatest experience I could've had. So I went camping with my family (which I usually love and look forward to all year) and was miserable. And yes, even one night I cried myself to sleep.

I had her email so when I returned home I emailed her as much as possible. I told her how I felt, and to my surprise she wrote back saying she felt the same thing and wished I had asked her out (I felt like a complete idiot for not doing it, lol). We were very close and were talking about getting into a relationship. I told her I would have to think about it (due to distance, and other personal reasons. So one day I decided I was going to finally ask this girl out, but before I could get online my dad told me I could go and get a haircut now, or in 2 weeks, and I had been needing one for some time. So I said yes, and when I went for my haircut, I met the hairdresser's daughter. And we got pretty close, and I found out very quickly she wanted to date me after a while of talking. It was a 15 yr old boy's dream. Two girls fighting over me. But unfortunately the girl I met at camp had already been waiting a while, whilst the other girl I met had only been waiting a little while. So the girl I met at camp told me that I obviously would be happy with this other girl, and I dated the hairdresser's daughter instead. Her and I dated (LDR) for 2.5 years. There was lots of experiences...both good and bad. We dated for 2.5 years (30 months) then after certain incidents where my heart and trust was shattered I ended the relationship to give myself some time to think (I'm sure some of you have jumped the conclusion that my ex cheated on me, which I won't confirm nor deny, but either way, don't think low of her, she's not a bad person). So I was giving myself some time to think, but in all honesty. Just a month before I broke up with my ex I started talking to this girl from camp again. Who I hadn't spoken to in about a year because she was angry at me (though I didn't know it at the time). She was mad because I kept going on and on about my amazing gf, but she loved me, but I didn't know. So she was hurt. But her and I randomly started talking out of nowhere. And while I was thinking about whether or not to dump my ex, I was talking with this girl whom I first met. Whom I realized I always had a thing for. Whenever she logged on MSN, I would get excited. And when she was mad at me, I was miserable. I even cried once that she wasn't mine after her and I stopped talking.

So I eventually, after painstaking thinking, I decided to end it with my ex, because too much had gone on, and I needed to get out. So I got out, and continued talking to my present gf (the camp girl) more and more. She was under a lot of stress because apparently, she never fell out of love with me, and she didn't know why. But she didn't and she thought I was going to take my ex back, but I surprised her, in May 2008 we went to a Christian Rock concert, and I asked her out and we had our first kiss on my birthday :D lol.

It was amazing. This story is a little messy and therefore, probably not that interesting, but it's a twist of coincidences that I believe to be fate; God bringing her and I together. We have been dating LDR for 4 months now. And even one month into the relationship I had to leave for camp 40 days straight...where little contact is allowed, and we still pulled through. She cares as much for me than my own family. But the difference is, she can CHOOSE to leave, she was not born with me, she chose to love me. She's honest, and beautiful, and absolutely amazing and I love her, and can't wait to spend years and years with her.

That's my story in a nutshell. There is A LOT of detail I had to skip because I don't wanna make 11 pages of text lol. But yeah, hope it was interesting. I love talking about her :)

Eric


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