Loving From A Distance

Sharing the sweetest things our long distance boyfriends/girlfriends have said or done
 

Ok. I am from Malaysia and my boyfriend from Rome. 10,000 km apart. Haven't seen each other for 4 months now.  What happened was I sent him a Youtube link of a love song i.e. Right here waiting for you by Richard Marx. And he replied with another love song i.e. Unchained Melody and he specified to read the comments after the video finished and he commented : "Ti amo, Pica" (pica = an endearment he calls me by the way). And my heart just melted. 

Melissa  12/12/2008

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After five long years of loving him secretly, Donald asked me out and we were just perfect for each other.  Two days after we got together, we were outside, gazing at the stars talking to each other, it started out as "I LIKE you this much" and I'd say well, "I LIKE you this much." Then we started saying "I heart you this much" and so on... after a while I screwed up and accidentally said love, so I got all nervous and tense about it and he said, "Well I know this is a big word... but I just straight up LOVE you."  And I will never forget that night.

Melissa  11/26/2008

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Well, my name is Vanessa and my boyfriend is Sam. I'm from Colombia and he is from Denmark, we met during the summer in 2007 while we both attended a summer camp for exchange students. I was starting my year abroad and unfortunately he was done with his experience and finally going back home. We liked each other and we left campus after 15 days.

We have been dating 10 months now; we started talking in September after camp, and we started dating in February 08. Sam has visited me in Colombia 2 times now and I'm going to Denmark to spend Christmas together.

My story is that here in Colombia we have a special day for women, so that day females are surrounded by flowers and cute stuff from their partners. At my school there was a guy hitting on me, so he gave me 30 red roses (not my favorite flower) that day at school, with a note saying that each rose represented  that he cares about me every day of the month.  However I never payed attention to the guy, so I told Sam about the flowers.

He got really sad and  freaked out since he didn't know we had that tradition here in Colombia during the month of March. During Easter break, I went to my hometown to visit my mom, dad and brother....

When I got home my room was filled up completely with sunflowers (MY FAVORITE) and a teddy bear laying in the bed with a note.
He asked my mom to help him out and of course she did, so the note was written in her handwriting....

Sorry it's not a Special day in Colombia, but to me is always special as long as you are letting me show you how much I love you and care about you. So, I got you 469 sunflowers.  They mean how much I love you every day I spend without you. So here goes my math, but numbers are infinite, like my love for you,
-in 2007
120 (days since we left camp)
-in 2008
349 (days of the year taking off  our plans for May and October)
 
P.S. if I come and surprise you before, then you OWE me sunflowers babe!!! :P:P

Thanks,
P.S. Sometimes its hard, but just think about the moments you guys have been together, then everything is worth the fight against distance! 

Vanessa  11/26/2008

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Well my boyfriend and I began as penpals, both of us never having been in a relationship. I'm nineteen, twenty on December fourth, and he's twenty three so the prospect of our connection was beyond exciting. This is something he wrote me in one of his letters:

I've never had a complete focus or unity in my "wants" until recently in the form of you. Okay, let me compare it to artwork. I haven’t thought this analogy/parable all the way through so bear with me.... You're like my David (the sculpture), instead of my Mona Lisa (the painting); Mona Lisa is, no question, beautiful and awe-inspiring but it's still an unfinished work and no matter what the beauty of it, it's still only two-dimensional, it's appeal can't be seen or felt from the opposite side of the canvas.... it's only a facade. Now the David is three dimensional, 360 degrees of perfection, no matter what angle you view it from your struck by it's beauty and force. So with other women, yes, face value they were appealing to a certain degree, but when viewed from this or that angle they were extremely lacking. Now you've presented me with the first representation of a woman who I find remarkable on several if not all levels. When I sit and think about you I'm just astonished at how amazing you are and I'm relatively sure that you're the reason I've been single up till now.... hope that explains it somewhat more...

Katlin  11/24/2008

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One night recently, I was pretty stressed out. I was getting flack from my family about the LDR we're in, behind on work, and nervous about our upcoming Christmas visit where we'll be celebrating the holidays with his extended family.  I was to the point of tears with frustration and completely venting all over him through IM.

He's pretty logical, so it's understandably a bit uncomfortable for him when I get completely emotional. He usually just "hugs" me and lets me get it all out.  This time, he hit just the right spot when he said, "Just picture this.  In 'x amount' of days, you'll be here, snuggled against my fuzzy chest in front of the fire with two empty cups of homemade eggnog on the floor beside us."  So, I closed my eyes and picture being there with him again, and all the stress and worry just melted away.  I thought it was the sweetest thing and it just turned my whole night around. ^_^

Tina  11/21/2008

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He said, "Just remember that I'm gonna be with you as your best friend first, even when we are going through hard times, I promise you that we will find our path and our friendship will prevail above everything..."

Ghida  11/20/2008

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The week my boyfriend became my boyfriend, I fell in love with a wonderful talent that he has. He plays guitar and sings really well, and even writes his own music. He sang love songs to me and even wrote one just for me.

Well, now we don't see each other very much, but he is still writing love songs.  Just this week he called me and sang his most recent one to me over the phone. I would have much rather been able to be with him to hear it, but I couldn't, and it was still so touching to me. Although I had the biggest smile on my face I've ever had, I couldn't keep the tears from rolling down my cheeks.

For a 17 year old guy, he always amazes me with how sweet, thoughtful, and sensitive he can really be.

Anna  11/16/2008

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When my boyfriend was playing baseball on the other side of the country, he sent me a gift package for no reason at all! In the box was my favorite perfume and lotion, 2 huge bags of my favorite candy, and 2 of my favorite lip glosses. (He was on the phone with me as I was shopping and he heard me say how much I loved the Victoria Secret lip plumpers but they were too expensive so I didn't buy them. Then he sent me two because he couldn't decide on a color!) He also sent me a beautiful card with the box that ended with "You are the love of my life and I'm going to spend the rest of my life with you!"  Aside of all of this, he also had a dozen roses delivered to my house from a local florist!  After not seeing him for a while, this was so encouraging to know that he cared this much for me and that he put in all the time and effort to do this!

Brilane  11/14/2008

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I'm a starving college student and recently I ran out of money for food, something I had never thought possible. Without telling me he packed a box full of food and sent it to me with a small note that said: "for just pennies a day I can feed a college student!" Thanks to him (and of course my highly developed radar for free food around campus) I am eating well! :) 

Jessica  11/13/2008

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One day my boyfriend sent me an email in it with a computer paint drawn heart in it, saying that he had given me his heart, I found this really amazingly sweet because it bears relevance to him because of his love of computers so everything has to be virtual. On my birthday he got his brother (his brother still lives near me because it was only my boyfriend who moved away to go to university) to put something in my locker for me to find. I found out that it was a hematite heart on a silver chain...with a letter saying that this was the more tangible version of his heart, saying that I should have that I had already stolen from him. It made me smile constantly for the rest of the day and it made up for him not being there cause I knew that I had his love around my neck.

Another thing that he is done, considering that my boyfriend is a student on a small budget, he downloaded my favorite film off the internet so that we could watch it together the first time I went to see him, it was so lovely, and I ended up being happy and surprised at the same time because he remembered the film.

Victoria  11/13/2008

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One time we were talking up a storm on our webcams and all of a sudden he just goes quiet. I looked into his eyes and smiled to which he couldn't contain his own smile. I asked him what he was thinking about and he looked straight into the camera and simply said "you". I don't think I've ever wished harder that I could just climb through the computer screen and embrace him. I asked what he would do if I were there at that very moment and he replied with something I had never heard in my life. I thought the response would be filled with sexual innuendos but he said something completely different. He told me he would try to remember everything about me because he knew he wouldn't get such a chance very often. He said first he'd try to remember the feel of my skin and then the smell of my hair and everything one can do to remember a person. It was the sweetest thing I ever heard anybody say and it completely melted my heart then and there.

Jeanine  11/11/2008

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I've been dating my boyfriend for about 5 months. We've known each other and been good friends since kindergarten. George and I worked together for three years at Dairy Queen, and we graduated together a couple years ago. Right after high school George moved to Fort Benning, Georgia to be a Ranger in the Army.  We didn't talk for an entire year until he came back home to visit his family which only lives a couple houses away from mine.  While he was home on leave we hung out every day and finally realized how much we liked each other.  He was sent over to Iraq for four months a month after we became official.  While he was gone, I had to move to a new town, start school, and find a job all on my own.  I didn't know anybody!  I was so nervous to start my first day of college and to make matters worse George was still in Iraq and I hadn't heard from him in a week!   I usually got one 20 minute phone call and a few emails from him each week.  After a successful first day of college, I got back to my apartment and started making myself a snack when there was a knock on the door.  I opened it to find a man standing there with a large bouquet of flowers and a teddy bear attached.  The man who delivered the flowers to me said he had specific instructions to wink at me, and say the flowers were from George!  When I read the card attached to the bouquet it read, "To the most beautiful woman I know...from the luckiest guy around!''  It was so sweet of him to do that!  I don't know how he remembered my new address and apartment number and how he found the time while in the middle of a war to do that for me!

Kelly  11/05/2008

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I started dating Stephen when I was a senior in high school.  When I graduated I went to visit my mom in Arizona for the summer.  I later decided that I was going to stay there instead of go back to California. He was the first person I talked to about it and he was very understanding, considering there was a lot going on at my dads house, and I just wanted out.  So I moved out here to Arizona in June without saying goodbye to anyone in California.

Well, about a week before Labor Day, my now Fiancé, mentioned that his mom and him were going to take a trip to Las Vegas.  So I told my mom and a friend out here that I wanted to go there and surprise him. They were all for it!  So I kept it from him, thinking I was being sly.  So when labor day weekend came, my friend and I were all packed up, and ready to go to Vegas, and my mom said we had to pick up her friend from the airport and then we could be on our way to Vegas.

So we were waiting for this girl, she said her name was Stephanie, talkin’ about how much fun the weekend would be, and I turned around because they kept looking behind me, and THERE HE WAS!!! He had been planning the trip the whole time!!!!!  He flew out to see me in Arizona, and I was completely clueless!!!  I hadn’t seen him in 3 months and for him to show up like that was just the most amazing thing!!! Needless to say we didn’t go to Vegas! but it was the best weekend  ever.  We have now been long distance for about 18 months, he lives in California where he is going to school full time. We plan on getting married when he finishes school, and he moves out here.  We are completely in love with each other, and are constantly reminding people that the impossible is very possible if you really love each other.  And we do :)

Victoria  10/30/2008

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My boyfriend, Brett, lives 7 hours away.  We met in college. He graduated last May; I won't graduate for another year and a half.  We didn't start dating until after he moved, I guess he didn't realize how much he liked me till he was apart from me for a while.  We have been averaging seeing each around once a month.  However, this month it looked like with our busy schedules it just wasn't going to work.  I was having a really bad week and was feeling awful with the stress of classes when he asked me online, "So are you really busy this weekend?”  I was alarmed by the statement and reference that it was our Homecoming weekend and I had band all day Saturday and various other activities Friday night.  I asked him why he asked and he responded with, "Well you've been feeling so lousy lately I want you to enjoy Homecoming." I thought nothing of it after that.  Then the Thursday of Homecoming week I called him and he didn't answer, which is unusual for Thursday nights.  A little while later, a mutual friend of ours called me to make sure I was planning on going to our church service that night.  I tried calling Brett again a bit later and he still didn't answer, I started to get slightly concerned.  Another mutual friend called not five minutes later trying to confirm that I would be at church that evening.  At this point I knew something was up. I went over to church, pretty sure what I would find.  I was right.  Standing there smiling at me was Brett, who I wasn't expecting to see for another month.  I was so happy I almost cried.  He said it took all his will power not to tell me, especially when I was having such a hard time right before his visit.  He had known for a while he was coming, so I was shocked he was able to keep it from me.  He's truly an amazing guy, and I am so lucky to have him, even if he is 7 hours away he's always here in my heart.

Nikki  10/30/2008

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My best friend was known for getting people Build-a-Bears for special occasions, and I had helped her design them for people a few times.  I had always wanted one, but I never got one.  At some point, I had told my girlfriend, Cheryl, this, and a couple of times we had gone into the Build-a-Bear workshop together, but she could never find the right one for me.  The day before we drove across the country to move me to grad school, I surprised Cheryl with a bear of her own -- a black lab puppy actually.  He is named "Chance," and she loves him dearly.  Helps her get through all those nights apart.
 
So she got a a bear from me, but she could never find the right one for me. As it turns out, she had previously had a Build-a-Bear that she had gotten in college as a gift for being in charge of the Habitat for Humanity group at her school -- his name was Hugh. She had shown him to me before, but I had forgotten about him.

Fast forward to a couple of weeks ago when I traveled from Massachusetts to Las Vegas to visit her for the weekend. I had classes from about 9 AM and I had a 6 hour flight, and so it was about 3AM my time when I got there.  When I met her in the terminal, she was holding a Build-a-Bear box.  As sweet as that was it was not the sweetest part.  Granted I was touched by the gesture as no one else --even my best friend-- had ever given me one.  I opened the box, and she asked me if I recognized the bear inside.  I did not.  I think this was mainly because I was exhausted from the long day and travel.  She told me I would understand when I read the card inside.
 
As she drove us home from the airport, I read the card and got tears in my eyes. 

It said:

"I may not be new but now I belong to you!
I was once loved very much but now she's got a new pup.
Can you love me as much as she loves you?"

 
Not only had she given me my first Build-a-Bear, but she had given me hers, Hugh.
 
I have to admit that I haven't had stuffed animals since I was a kid, but Hugh warms my night every night and reminds me so much of her.

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So, the sweetest thing Daniel has ever said to me.  I actually have it memorized but I saved it to my computer just for keepsake<3

I was playing a game of "what if" with him one night...you know "what if I did this" or "what if this happened". And I said some things just to be silly and his answer, even though goofy and easy, which is his way, his answer completely stopped my heart and brought tears to my eyes. And it went......

(oh by the way....he absolutely hates the color yellow :)

Me: "What if you came home, and I had burnt the meatloaf, shaved my head and painted the living room yellow?"
Him<3: "I'd eat it, rub your head like a crystal ball and probably get some sun glasses."

Extremely simple and crazy, but that's us and that is one of the Sweetest Things he has ever said to me<3

Ciera  10/23/2008

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The sweetest thing my boyfriend has ever done would have to be when said "No matter the distance between us, and no matter how long it takes, I will come see you one day and we be happy together, and I don't care what I have to do."

Shelbey  10/11/2008

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This is a passage my boyfriend wrote to me. He wrote it after we had a "Trial Separation" period in which we did not talk to each other at all for a week, just to see if it would somehow help deter the constant arguments we had with one another every other day. During that time, we were both extremely depressed, sleep-deprived, and turning physically ill. He just wanted to write something that we could both relate to, and read if either of us became lonely during hard times in the future.

With the hopes of having one peaceful night of seven hours, my anxiousness to sleep came early. But that desire for a peaceful siesta was completely shattered a mere three hours later by a terrifying nightmare that’s escaped my mind, yet imprinted its subtle memory into the lining of my imagination regardless.
 
The pain of this reminiscence that I couldn’t even actually remember was agonizing. And not even the comforting antics of Barbara Adler or Franz Liszt’s Ave Maria could soothe my restless mind.  I started to cry.
 
What happened next had occurred to my subconscious being before. On the false edges of sleep that weighed the centers of my eyelids, I felt your presence. I was already aware by all human comprehension that you weren’t possibly as close as you seemed. But with my dreaming eyes closed and desperately calling out for reprieve, I was ready to believe anything.
 
I felt your docile hand stroke the outer layer of my ruffled hair; the hair that wasn’t concealed in the velvet material of the body pillow that it rested on.  With your remaining hand, you took hold of mine and squeezed it gently as you rubbed your thumb against the bare skin of my backhand. Your patience was like the pantomime of a metronome endlessly counting the minutes that my tears played their hushed sonata from the corners of my eyes and beautifully down my cheeks.
 
And as if to be a following duet to the concerto my emotional state has produced, you began to hum that unfamiliar melody to the lullaby that you once called mine - never forgetting to pause in between measures in order to ensure that I was still listening softly.
 
As my tears dried, the charisma of your warm smile was visible, even in the dark that engulfed my bedroom.  Silent gestures of I love yous coursed from your lips, if only to prove that the phrase wasn’t just another irresponsible leer of society as the philosophical thoughts of Roland Barthes had seemed to explain in his elucidations of a lover’s discourse. “I love you,” you would say with an indisputable tone, and nothing more than that three-word phrase that gave even the darkest of hearts a light to follow. “I love you." 

That was all I needed

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When my boyfriend and I first met and started talking I told him I saw this adorable stuffed duck. He made fun of me about it for days. 6 months later (this was a month ago) I was having a super stressful week at school and seriously was about to break down. It was Thursday night when I got home from school, and when I walked into my bedroom there was a dozen red roses and a stuffed animal duck. There was a card that said "I miss you and can't wait to see you tomorrow." I had no idea how he got it into my room since he was a state away but it was so adorable and that was when I realized I loved him.

Kelly  10/7/2008

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My boyfriend and I don't get to talk on the phone much, because he has a pay as you go phone plan and he ALWAYS runs out of minutes. So sometimes he runs out in the middle of the week and I don't get to talk to him again until the end of the week when he gets paid. I get really down when he runs out of minutes...obviously. He is the one person who can REALLY cheer me up so not being able to talk to him is really difficult. So when he runs out of minutes he sends me sweet little notes in the mail everyday that we don't get to talk. He is a cartoonist and sends me cute little pictures of the two of us or he'll send sweet little pieces of paper with reasons he loves me. The most recent letter was short and all it said was "everytime I missed you today I put a scrap of paper in this envelope" and the envelope was filled with scraps of paper that had ranges of sweet things written on them ("I miss you" "I miss your smell" " I miss your smile") He makes sure that I know I'm loved ... even from a distance :)

Meg 10/7/2008

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My boyfriend and I met on a cruise during Spring Break and really hit it off.  My first kiss with him was on my 16th Birthday - and of course when we got back home we were over 1,100 miles away and couldn't miss each other more.  
 
During that coming summer, he gathered all the money his family and friends had given him for both graduation and his birthday and flew out to see me just two days after he had turned 18.  He even stayed at a campsite for two weeks with no electricity just so he could spend some time with me.
 
We talk every night on the phone and love every minute we can hear each others voices.  And we've been together for nearly 7 months now =]
 
I love you Jacob!
 
Liz 10/4/2008

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It was late at night and we both logged on MSN after a long day. I got back home late from University and had a massive homework load to finish. She got back from school (I'm first year University student, she is grade 12 High School student) and she had just as much, if not more, homework than I did. It was already 10:00 pm. I called her and told her about my day, and she did likewise. We talked about random things that went on, told jokes. We are very random people and can either be comfortably silent for an hour, or have random discussions from out of nowhere.

We talked until about 11:11 pm, which is the time where we both make wishes together about something we truly want. And it's not like "i want a big screen TV" wish. It has to be your deepest desire at that moment/day and you HAVE to say it, even if you think it is embarrassing. That night we both had the same wish. I wished that every morning I can wake up next to her for the rest of my life. She wished that every night she could lay down next to, or on me, and fall asleep with our breathing rates matched. It made us both smile. Her smile always reminded me of the sunrise/sunset.

So we talked until 11:30 until her mother said it was time to get off the phone. We were both :( because we hate to hang up. But being the guy, I always hang up first so she doesn't have to. Makes it easier on her. I called her my Angel, or my beautiful girl as I always do before I hang up. Now the problem was, we had only finished maybe a page of our homework, even with us helping each other.

So what we did is stay up late helping each other finish each other's homework. I finished my homework by one in the morning, but she still had a massive load left to do. She was already tired and starting to fall asleep, but watching me on webcam, and talking to her kept her awake. I was equally (if not more) tired. But regardless, I used every piece of strength I had to stay up and be energetic for her.

So I stayed up ALL NIGHT long helping her with her work, and keeping her awake. Even though I had University the next day. I'm guessing she finished most (if not all) around 4:30 (she had a lot). But after she finished we stayed up with each other and talked about old memories we had of where we first met. How we felt. Where we saw each other in five years. We talked until 7:30 am about how much we loved each other, and what we wanted our futures to be like. So yeah, basically for three hours we talked about each other and what we wanted to do together for our life. I told her my deep dark secrets, one which included that I had picked up the second "Twilight" series book because, even though I didn't like the story, I wanted to be a part of her life, so I decided to try it. And she was so happy that I did that because it was just reinforcing how much I want to be in her life. We went to bed around 7:30 because her parents woke up, and my renters woke up. And we also decided that our health was more important than a few more hours on MSN. So we logged off MSN though we didn't want to. And we each got 2-3 hours sleep. And in that time, all I did was dream of her and me just being together.

Eric 9/29/2008

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My boyfriend sent me the sweetest text it goes like this..
 
“Ruthie there is something wrong with me but i dont have the measels, am not conifined to bed, asperin wont help cuz' it aint my head, i dont have back ache or the flu, its more serious.......am missing you, love you forever baby girl MWA”

Ruth  9/28/2008

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My boyfriend lives 1000 miles while he is attending Dental School. One afternoon I arrived home from class to find a dozen red roses, and a note that said the following "Beautiful flowers for a beautiful woman. Please join me tonight at 7 pm (your time) for a Skype date. Dinner will arrive shortly. Love, David"
 
At 7 there was a knock at the door and dinner had arrived from Buca di Beppos. I logged onto Skype video chat and there was David dressed in a shirt and tie! It was incredibly thoughtful and romantic and for a few hours I almost forgot how far away he was. 

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My boyfriend, Jack, and I have been in a LDR for exactly 2 ears and 7 months.  He lives in Dublin Ireland and I live in Philadelphia, PA, which usually provokes a large gasp from unknowing people. This letter was a love note he wrote to me on our two year anniversary, right after we had spent a week together and then separated.  

"To my sweetheart:
       The way you can make me smile no matter how i'm feeling is crazy. I know i cried kinda a lot when i left you...i pretty much burst into tears that were impossible being held back after you got into the car. Heh, impossible because every time i see you, i fall even more in love with you...impossible because i already loved you enough to cry the first time i left you. But even still, your notes you secretly slipped into my wallet just make me forget everything and make me smile again. And you are literally the one and only girl in the whole entire universe who could ever have that effect on me. You know me. You always know how i feel. You care about me. You love me, Allie! You make me the happiest, luckiest, most madly in love person in the world...all because you return my love with every bit of emotion you have, through tears and smiles we love each other...and one day, those tears will be the happy ones trying to fall at each others feet while we're finally together...while we're standing at an altar getting married...while we're watching our little kids grow up...but they'll never fall because we'll both be there to catch them. Forever and ever, i'll be there for you when you're happy and sad. One day we'll be together, i believe it more than ever every time we're together...because every time we hold each other, we both squeeze so tight that i know neither of us ever wants to let go. We both want it....we both want our lives to be intertwined as physically as it is emotionally. And it will be Allie....i promise it will be!

In two months at the very most, we'll be in each others loving embrace again....and considering it'll probably take at least that amount of time of going back and forth over IM to set up our web-cams...maybe it won't even seem like anything at all. Heh... ;) 

I am so in love with you sweetheart...and that will never change. I will fall for you more and more as forever and ever unravels into eternity. You are my love. :)"

Allie  8/30/2008

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Ok, well me and my girlfriend met while she was an exchange student last year at my high school.  She is now back in her home country of Slovakia but we are actually doing really well in are LDR :)  Anyways I'm not sure if I can answer this contest with something I did for her but she was extremely happy when I did the thing I did!

Me and my gf would always joke around a lot and be silly so every time we would go to Walmart she would always have to stop by the little machines where you put 2 quarters in and you get these sticky hands and these funny little rings.  She really loved them and we would always each buy some then I would try to stick her with my sticky hand and she would try to me.  Or sometimes we would go down the road trying to hit cars with them at stoplights together haha.

So anyways her last night, she was with me here in the USA.  We were at Walmart and she tried on this Eeyore night gown thing, or whatever it was, but I found out she liked Eeyore a lot from Winnie the Pooh.  
When she went back to Slovakia, I really wanted to send her something that would mean something to her.  So I bought this really big stuffed Eeyore and I bought a bunch of those rings and sticky hands!
I tied a little bag to the Eeyore's arm and put all the rings and sticky hands in there.  I sent it to her and it ended up costing me almost like 100 dollars for everything to get it there but I didn't care.

The funny thing was that her family and her weren't home the day it was supposed to come so they called her and told her they would bring a package to her the next day.  She thought the whole time it was a package from her host parents she had while in the USA and I kept playing it off like I had no clue what it could be.

The next morning she was soo happy and it made me incredibly happy just that she was happy!! 

Ryan   8/29/2008

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We were talking about my love for writing and he said, “Well I want you to know that wherever you are and whatever happens remember that someone out there believes in you and in your writing especially.”  My writing means so much to me and him saying that made me realize how much deeper he felt for me than I had realized.

Mwajim  7/21/2008

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It all started from separation, we met at university, we spent around half a year together, and I loved her with all my heart.  Since we were both international students from two different countries we were forced to go home during the summer (because of parents), so it was a long long summer... and finally when the summer did end, she arrived to the school about 2 days ahead of me...
 
That night was when my plane arrived, my heart was filled with excitement, and anticipation knowing I'd finally see the LOVE OF MY LIFE.  So I carried my luggage as I entered the school's front gates, and on my way to the dorm, I saw a familiar figure... suddenly she ran towards me and leaped into my arms and wrapped me so tightly that I didn't even need to hold her and she would stick on to me!  That was the sweetest thing that has ever happened to me.  I would literally do anything to re-live that moment, it was just... something not even words could describe.

Cayenne  7/19/2008

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Sweetest Thing Contest Winning Entry  12/7/2008

My boyfriend had set up an African trip the week before we met (we began talking in October and his trip started Jan 2nd)  There was no way I could arrange to go so he went alone and for two months contact was very limited.  When he was in Cape Town just before the official start of the trip he asked me to think of a name for a lion cub.   I picked the name Delilah and he thanked me for picking a name and asking no questions.  When he came for his first visit in May he gave me a present.  Inside the gift bag was a packet of photos of him and a little stuffed lion cub in all of the places he had been in Africa. Each picture had a caption on it saying where they were or what they were up to. The first said the African Adventures of Adam and Delilah.  It ended with a picture of the two of them together and said that they were thinking of me through their trip.  He had carried Delilah on his tour bus with the entire group and took pictures just so he could give them to me.  After I looked at the pictures he told me to look in the bag again and I saw Delilah.  I now have her to sleep next to me until we can be together again. 

Karen  7/17/2008      

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My boyfriend has never been the romantic type. This has never particularly bothered me because I accept him just the way he is. He's not the one who speaks with words, rather with actions. The day I left him was when I realized how in love with him I really was, even though our goodbye was rather cold, and more friend-like. A couple days after I got home from college I had an email on my inbox from him. What it said brought me to tears cause I know he said it with all honesty and love in his heart. He wanted me and missed me, he missed my smell and my touch...and even the way I snore cause it was cute (And I never even knew I snored!). He said I was wonderful and worth waiting for, and how much it hurt him to be away from me, he even said his heart stopped beating when I left and he felt lost and sorry for not telling me how much I meant to him when I was there.

It might not be incredibly romantic to other people, but to me it meant the world. I read that email every time I feel sad and it just reminds me how much we love each other and how we are gonna overcome this period of time we are not in each others arms. 

Anonymous 7/17/2008