<div class="text-justify">I do not know if it is the same with every other person, but I have always desired a particular love life. In accordance with this love life of mine, I do not approve of long-distance relationships. Somehow still, I ended up in one in my current relationship. It was a decision I had to make, listening to my heart. Thank God my heart did not eventually disappoint me; I would have regretted it like never before.

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It is over two years since I made the decision to begin my current relationship, a long-distance relationship. A normal me would not have tried it out, not because I have past experiences with such relationships, but because I have several other reasons why I do not like it. Since I eventually allowed myself to journey through this part, which I would originally not, it has not been easy, but somehow I kept pushing. I eventually encountered some of the things I feared, but I have also learned to face them. Notwithstanding the difficulties, it has eventually become the most amazing relationship I have ever been in. In all, I have never regretted my actions.

Matters of the heart are supposed to be treated with great caution, and so someone is not expected to engage if it is something the person cannot handle. Yet, risks are sometimes taken. Her name is Juliet, and I fought the fact that I felt something for her for a while before eventually coming to terms with my reality. The long-distance thing was really a serious problem for me, and so I tried as much as possible to keep it casual. But then, the casualness only lasted for a few weeks. We both felt something for each other; it was written all over our conversation, and we knew it.

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The question eventually popped up after two weeks of chat on WhatsApp. She simply asked, 'Do you actually feel the same way I feel about you?' It just appeared to me that I did another crazy thing that a normal me would not have done. I felt something deep for a person I never met for the first time; it all started on Facebook. Chatting her up for the first time, it felt like we had known each other before then; the connection was really strange. We eventually exchanged numbers, moved to WhatsApp, and gradually grew fond of each other. At the point when she posed the question, I could not help but make a big and risky decision. It turned out that there was no risk involved after all.

There is so much more to tell with reference to my love story and how far we have come, but those will be stories for another day. Coupled with the fact that I will have a lot more to write, it is actually out of the scope of the prompt. I probably will give you my long list of reasons why I red-flagged long-distance relationships on that very day 😁. Thank you so much, guys, for reading up to the end; one love✌️.


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