The first time I visited my boyfriend in college, it was the happiest I’d been in awhile. Even though I have made many friends at App, no one holds a place in my heart like he does. I should have been excited for the App vs. Tennessee game like everyone else, but I was much more excited to go stay with my boyfriend in his dorm at UTK.
Every minute we spent together felt like the best gift I ever could have received. It was amazing to see him in his whole new life, in a new setting, and it was even better that he wanted me to be apart of it. Being three hours away from each other is hard, but these little visits are what makes all the lonely nights worth it. And he knows this, that is why at every turn he made me feel appreciated and thanked me for coming all this way just to see him. I have never met a nicer group of people than his friends. Each one not only was nice to me, but actually included me and tried to get to know me as a person, not just as their friend’s girlfriend.
The happiest I’ve been since I went to college was this visit. I know it sounds cliché, to be so young and in love, no one ever thinks it will last. But there is something special about us. We learn and grow from each other, we don’t focus on the distance, but instead appreciate the strong relationship that makes the distance irrelevant in the first place. Not only do we have love between us, but a closeness and comfort that I couldn’t feel with anyone else in my life.
And it hurts being apart, it really does. But I take comfort knowing that no matter where we are, that I will always have him there when I need him. College is only four years long, but if your relationship is strong then love can last forever.
