True Love Waits

One great show of love deserves another in return - and so has been the motivation for our blissful passion. It has been by no means an easy journey, and although at times we both may have considered giving in to the pain and confusion, the journey has made us stronger and more committed than we ever could have expected. It's amazing what distance can do to a relationship, what it can teach a person about the relationship itself - but also what it teaches about the two people engaged therein. The last four months have been such an experience.

Distance is never something I would wish on any relationship, and certainly not on my own with Amie - but it is something with which our relationship has become ever more familiar. As our interests and passions reveal themselves to one another, they have forced important conversations about the reality of our relationship to survive the challenges that our seemingly diverging lives have taken.

Yet it is in the distance and the divergence that an ever-strengthening love and understanding have emerged. While I never would have wished this distance on each other, I know that what it really has done is made each other stronger and more committed to making it work. I could not be more excited to be going back to her for a brief moment, like a sweet oasis in the desert...

I love you Amie, my Beloved Friend