Have ever been met someone who just completely changes your outlook on love? Who shows you a newer, better, deeper love than you've ever experienced?

I have and only recently did I. Though our relationship was short, the love we shared was so different than any others I've shared before. Yes, I've been in love with other guys before but to me, as I look back on it, it was all really just what people like to call "puppy love", typical high school relationship. I've also loved someone I was with because I felt like I had to because he needed someone to love him. That's not the kind of love you want or should want. You also don't want to settle for what is considered puppy love.

I'm only 20 but I was lucky enough to experience a love that most people my age don't find. After being in a relationship that caused me to be with someone I was pitied into loving and realizing it wasn't the kind of love or relationship or person I wanted to be with; I found this person who just completely changed my life for the better and gave me a whole new outlook on love. And he and our relationship taught me so much.

Our relationship taught me how to genuinely love a person. Our relationship taught me how to love deeply and intensely. I learned how to not only love him and his personality, but I fell in love with his soul. That's something I've never experienced before. I was able to really figure out the type of person I wanted to be with. He was it. He had it all and everything I needed and wanted. Our relationship showed me what it's like to be in an adult relationship with someone on the same level as me in life, it was a real eye-opener. I know that what we had was something very special and he was very special to me. I had never cared for or about someone the way I did him.

The kind of connection we shared was like a force of nature, almost. It was very intense and very quick right off the bat. Something about him just made me think that he was the one. Our relationship was always very exciting and happy. It was very loving and healthy; definitely, something that I needed after my previous relationship.

However, life got in the way and caused too much stress on us in the end, sadly. And even though we're not together, there's going to be a part of me that will always love him. That's how you know you truly, truly love someone. They break your heart yet, you forgive them and would still be with them if they allowed you to be. I hope that one day I get to experience this again and everyone deserves the chance to get this feeling. But once you do find it, don't let go of it. Losing it sucks.