Home is a sacred space and sharing with someone can be very difficult and even sometimes awkward, but there is no one I would rather choose to live with.

We’re making mistakes, we’re falling in love too quickly, we’re staying out too late drinking too much and just ‘doing life’ together. We took the leap and moved away from home and we both know that the feeling of being completely free but also completely scared. We also know the excitement of getting coupons and an empty apartment waiting to be decorated.

The place is small and may be minimally decorated due to funds but it is our place. Every picture messily taped to the wall holds a funny memory or exciting choice in our lives that led us here.

Those moments led us to this apartment, this college, to chase our dreams.

We may take pictures down of boys or friends that have disappeared from our lives due to heartbreak or even a small heartache. But our pictures together are there to stay and in the next couple of years, the photo wall will grow.

In this tiny space, we’re making the kind of memories that will last a lifetime, the kind of memories that we will one day annoy our children with.

At the end of a long day, we don’t have our moms there to make us food, which totally sucks, but what we do have is a friend who is always ready to grab take-out to bring back to the apartment.

This is something I truly cherish because sometimes the nights we have stayed in, we have had the best talks and laughed the hardest all while sitting on our uncomfortable couches.

Our future husbands might walk through the door simply as new boyfriends. We will sit on the couch like little girls laughing about how cute our names sound together, while we reread each other texts.

This is a transformative period in our lives and in the middle of so much change, there is something so comforting about knowing that we are in this together.

You being here with me confirms that if we ever make it to the top I will not be standing up there alone.

Even if we are not in love or even in a relationship we are not alone because we have each other and we do not mind taking advantage of watching movies together.

Thank you for being my comic relief on this crazy, hard, and sometimes frightening road. Thank you for playing bartender on the nights we stayed in, and for listening to all my weird crazy dreams.

I know I say stop-chatting me singing while I am driving, but secretly I think it is hilarious and I hope you have them all saved for my wedding day.

I will not really remember the boring stuff and the hard stuff but I will always remember you were there to get me through it.

All the nights I danced around the apartment, both of us laying on the nasty carpet talking about our goals. Those are experiences that are leading to something. I do not know what that is and I do not know when this weird step before adulthood ends, but I am extremely glad you are here with me.

I know one day we will find ourselves standing in this apartment, looking like it did the day we moved in, hugging goodbye.

Whenever that day comes, just remember, you have changed my life for the better and I hope you never go far from me but if you do I will always keep that photo with me so wherever I go next, in a way I will take you too.