10 year anniversary!
The summer 10 years ago I was pretty broken down mentally after a relationship that went really bad. Over that summer I was hanging around a fairly new and friendly community, NearToTheSky's Dragon Forum, which had a webchat. I became friend with NearToTheSky, and our friendship developed into something more towards autumn. And October the 10th 2004 we acknowledged our love for each others and became mates.
I do not quite remember how soon we met each others AFK, but I think it was mid 2005. And things did not go all that smooth as one would believe it should have gone. We had very different routines, priorities, economy, and so on. Back then I was poor, living the student's life without financial support from family, and as a result I was way underweight, lacked routines, complete absence in self-confidence after how the previous relationship had ended, and otherwise spent an unhealthy amount of time chatting with friends and around on forums. Back then I was an administrator of Dragon Realms, and it was a very time consuming duty, which also added to my lack of routines. NearToTheSky come from a family who valued food culture very highly, had a decent economy, and well established day-to-day routines. I did not quite understand this part of his life-style, or respect it very well.
But we still loved each others, and I felt very guilty about that things did not go so well as I wished it had gone. He tried visiting again a few months later, and unfortunately the visit was too short, and this meeting went even worse! It was a lot of things that had happened that made me quite emotionally unreliable.
But we loved each others, even after the second meeting going not so well as we wished it to go. I tried better myself, my self-confidence, and my life style. Without this I would have had no hope in working out a relationship with NearToTheSky. Eventually I managed to save up the money (or NearToTheSky paid for my trip, I do not quite remember), to come and visit him in Belgium, and finally this time things did work out (probably because I was not the host). Actually NearToTheSky came to Norway to bring me back to Belgium with him as I lacked the confidence to travel to Belgium alone. I met his parents and they were very happy with me, even though we was unable to communicate.
In 2006 NearToTheSky finished his university degree and was all ready for moving to Norway. Fortunately for us, he had no issue finding a job and thus his move here was quite unproblematic. My life improved very quickly after he moved here. I had someone to keep me to routines, making sure I was feeding myself properly, and even gave me the encouragement of cooking actual food. And well, we even got the money to buy actual food. Through most of my student-life I ate crisp breads, noodles, and sausages with a boiled potato, so having NearToTheSky made a big difference in my life.
I was also on my last year of my master degree in solid-state physics and micro-electronics, so I needed the change that NearToTheSky brought into my life. Though, work-wise it was a hard year, finishing the thesis, and I spent many long nights in the laboratory, but always with the encouragement from NearToTheSky. It paid off itself with an A+ on my thesis defense summer 2007. That same summer NearToTheSky and I got engaged, I got a job too, and we was able to start saving up for a house and plan wedding. And we got a car too! Our very first car, a Suzuki Liana 4WD, and it is still with us! Though, barely. :s
Our wedding was held 19th of June 2010. It was big for a Norwegian wedding, about 40 guests, held in the small wooden church in Bogen. We had dragon guests from UK, France, and the US, and right after the wedding we all went to our family cabin on a week-long vacation. It came to be Norwegian Dragonkin Gathering number 1! We had such a nice time that we vowed to make it a tradition, and that it became.
January 2012 we finally bought our very own house in a cute little hidden away corner of the world and the forest is right in our back-yard, with wild-life creeping up right to our house and a large ski-slope just a few minutes away from our house. To this day, I feel that my life is quite perfect and am certain I would not be in such a good position in life had not NearToTheSky come around to put order to my life and my priorities.
Thank you so much, NearToTheSky, for all the joy you brought into my life. I have no idea where I would be now had you not come into my life. I need you, and I love you so very much. Sometimes I even shed a tear at work because I miss you so much, despite only having been away from you for a few hours. I feel very silly those times, though. ^^; You are my perfect companion in this life. We always find things to talk about, and we always keep being good at communicating. You know me so well, even better than I know myself, so you almost always manage to work out whatever unreasonable emotions, desires, or schemes I am about with every now and then. One draw-back, however, is that it is almost impossible to keep secrets from you, but I do not mind that.
I love you so much <3
I do not quite remember how soon we met each others AFK, but I think it was mid 2005. And things did not go all that smooth as one would believe it should have gone. We had very different routines, priorities, economy, and so on. Back then I was poor, living the student's life without financial support from family, and as a result I was way underweight, lacked routines, complete absence in self-confidence after how the previous relationship had ended, and otherwise spent an unhealthy amount of time chatting with friends and around on forums. Back then I was an administrator of Dragon Realms, and it was a very time consuming duty, which also added to my lack of routines. NearToTheSky come from a family who valued food culture very highly, had a decent economy, and well established day-to-day routines. I did not quite understand this part of his life-style, or respect it very well.
But we still loved each others, and I felt very guilty about that things did not go so well as I wished it had gone. He tried visiting again a few months later, and unfortunately the visit was too short, and this meeting went even worse! It was a lot of things that had happened that made me quite emotionally unreliable.
But we loved each others, even after the second meeting going not so well as we wished it to go. I tried better myself, my self-confidence, and my life style. Without this I would have had no hope in working out a relationship with NearToTheSky. Eventually I managed to save up the money (or NearToTheSky paid for my trip, I do not quite remember), to come and visit him in Belgium, and finally this time things did work out (probably because I was not the host). Actually NearToTheSky came to Norway to bring me back to Belgium with him as I lacked the confidence to travel to Belgium alone. I met his parents and they were very happy with me, even though we was unable to communicate.
In 2006 NearToTheSky finished his university degree and was all ready for moving to Norway. Fortunately for us, he had no issue finding a job and thus his move here was quite unproblematic. My life improved very quickly after he moved here. I had someone to keep me to routines, making sure I was feeding myself properly, and even gave me the encouragement of cooking actual food. And well, we even got the money to buy actual food. Through most of my student-life I ate crisp breads, noodles, and sausages with a boiled potato, so having NearToTheSky made a big difference in my life.
I was also on my last year of my master degree in solid-state physics and micro-electronics, so I needed the change that NearToTheSky brought into my life. Though, work-wise it was a hard year, finishing the thesis, and I spent many long nights in the laboratory, but always with the encouragement from NearToTheSky. It paid off itself with an A+ on my thesis defense summer 2007. That same summer NearToTheSky and I got engaged, I got a job too, and we was able to start saving up for a house and plan wedding. And we got a car too! Our very first car, a Suzuki Liana 4WD, and it is still with us! Though, barely. :s
Our wedding was held 19th of June 2010. It was big for a Norwegian wedding, about 40 guests, held in the small wooden church in Bogen. We had dragon guests from UK, France, and the US, and right after the wedding we all went to our family cabin on a week-long vacation. It came to be Norwegian Dragonkin Gathering number 1! We had such a nice time that we vowed to make it a tradition, and that it became.
January 2012 we finally bought our very own house in a cute little hidden away corner of the world and the forest is right in our back-yard, with wild-life creeping up right to our house and a large ski-slope just a few minutes away from our house. To this day, I feel that my life is quite perfect and am certain I would not be in such a good position in life had not NearToTheSky come around to put order to my life and my priorities.
Thank you so much, NearToTheSky, for all the joy you brought into my life. I have no idea where I would be now had you not come into my life. I need you, and I love you so very much. Sometimes I even shed a tear at work because I miss you so much, despite only having been away from you for a few hours. I feel very silly those times, though. ^^; You are my perfect companion in this life. We always find things to talk about, and we always keep being good at communicating. You know me so well, even better than I know myself, so you almost always manage to work out whatever unreasonable emotions, desires, or schemes I am about with every now and then. One draw-back, however, is that it is almost impossible to keep secrets from you, but I do not mind that.
I love you so much <3