I’ve known this guy for 7 months now. I remember, bizarrely, everything about first meeting him. He was tall, very tall, and everything about him just seemed big. He ended up telling me I had acne that night. I threw a beer on him and we didn’t talk for three months.
He kept pushing though. I was always getting invited to go camping, or something of a similar nature. I ignored him for the most part, but then eventually I decided to give it a shot.
I wasn’t planning on anything coming out of it. He’s 13 years older than I am and it was just supposed to be something to do when I was bored. I was sort of seeing someone else at the time and besides, he’d been a jerk when I first met him.
Then I actually went up there and I have never had that much fun in my entire life. We talked and swam and when he touched me, my skin was literally tingling.
Three and a half months later and I went from being a nonbeliever in love, and relationships in general, to being stuck in one that I never want out of. I was so hell bent on never really caring about anyone, so determined to be alone, that I thought I had every single area of my heart locked up. Everyone else who had ever come around was always pushed away. No one even came close. But he, in just a matter of months, has managed to change so much about the way I think. He’s slowly showing me everything a relationship can be that’s good and amazing. He’s showing me what love is really meant to be without being anything other than himself.
Even if we don’t work out, for whatever reason, he’s proven me wrong on love not existing. I will always be grateful to him for that.