2024 Wouldn't Be What It Was Without Her

About six weeks before I left Aotearoa New Zealand for Wales we met - WTF universe.

We met via Bumble, a dating app, and during our first date I fell head over in heels in love. I've never had a first kiss like it. Ever.

With only six weeks together we connected, made plans, and went away. We also talked about the fast approaching time apart.

We didn't know what would happen, it was an adventure but also one of trust and, well, should we even bother?

During our time apart we messaged and had night/morning video chats, we got to know each other more sharing times and moments.

Then, weirdly, it was our time to physically meet again - will that virtual relationship of 5 months last an actual one?

Still massively in love, I knew this was the person I could easily die beside ... as in I would die and she would be beside me, not - you get it.

She opened her home to me, a home that was hers, a home that was about her and her kids, she allowed me in. Those first few weeks were quite the whirlwind for me, Wellington had become a place that didn't do jobs, I was questioning what I actually wanted to be, and all the time she allowed me to roam her place.

A temporary situation, this was clearly not sustainable. And yet she was the most amazingly patient and kind person ever.

What came in the months after was different, we both consolidated our lives, we focussed on the truly important, and we remain the best of friends. We have entered what we call #Chapter3, I can't wait to write more of our book together, new characters, old stories, new situations, but we will never finish the book apart 

Oh, and that kiss, I shall never ever forget that kiss.

It's summer in January here at home. She loves the water, and this moment is one of sheer bliss for her, it's like the sea gave her the kiss she gave me ❤️

Woman in a calm blue harbour with blue hills and sky in the background

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