I feel like it’s my turn to write something here now. My fiancé, Justin, has a lot on his mind which you probably have noticed by now. I can feel already that this is going to be quite a mixed blog, which is fun! I will share both thoughts, but I think it’s a lot of fun to show what we do during the days as well. You’ll just have to follow the journey of this blog and see what happens.
Justin and I have been together for almost five years now. Looking back it feels insane! We met in Annapolis, Maryland. I was an Au Pair for a few months and Justin studied at the Naval Academy. If you haven’t been in Annapolis I highly recommend it, men and women in hot white uniforms all over! Anyway. We met through common friends at a party and I can honestly say that I was not that interested at first (if you ask Justin he will say that I could not stop staring at him though). Nonetheless, we ended up spending the entire evening together and having so much fun. He was honest. Fun. Had amazing beautiful eyes. And showed a lot of interest in me. The swedish girl.
After dating for a month I was moving back to Sweden and we had to decide, should we be just friends or should we try to become a couple? Justin said he wanted to just be friends. And I got super bummed. Either way I convinced him that we should give it a try and I was no longer single when I came home to Sweden.
After being back in Sweden for a week I booked another trip to Pensacola, USA (to where he moved) and my parents and all my friends thought I was crazy. Everybody thought “this is never going to last”. We traveled back and forth for two years. It was tough. The longest time we were away from each other was for 8,5 months. Thank God for Skype! A distance relationship is nothing I would recommend to anybody. It’s heartbreaking and lonely. However, looking back at it now, when we’ve lived together for three years, I feel like it was so worth it. I have a man that I can say moved half around the world just to be with me. That’s pretty darn romantic, I must say.
Below is a picture of Justin and I on our first date, which was at a garden party.
— Sofie —
American living in Sweden 