Tag: relationship

90 Day LDR Challenge: Day 14

Day 14: What was your first kiss like? If you haven’t kissed yet, what do you think/hope it will be like?

Cat: It was everything I had hoped it would be and more. 🙂

Richard: It was really nice haha. We were sat in Piccadilly Gardens in Manchester at night, and I remember lots of football (US friends, read: soccer) fans going past. So, that was a bit surreal, as well as the fact that we had been speaking for a good few months with Cat all those thousands of miles away, and all of a sudden we were together. I remember walking Cat back to her hotel where we kissed again, and then some guy driving past said “Get a room!” Haha! Unfortunately, Cat was staying with her mum at that point so that wasn’t an option 😀

90 Day LDR Challenge: Day 12

Day 12: How did you tell your family and friends about your relationship? Were they supportive? What about your partner?

Cat: The night before I met Richard for the first time, I remember telling my mom about him. I was really nervous because my mom is a traditional woman, and I was waiting for her judgment to rain on me about online dating, etc. But she was surprisingly really cool about it! She really had my back the night that Richard and I went out. In retrospect, I’m glad my mom was there when I met Richard.

Throughout our relationship, Richard has made such a great impression on the rest of my family and friends, and all of my friends are actually happy that we’re going so strong. And while a couple of my aunts had silly comments to make about our LDR, I took it all with a grain of salt. One of them has become bitter about love since forever, and the other has been with the same man since high school, never having to deal with distance or any other kind of obstacles. Sometimes, understanding where the negativity comes from is 80% of the battle.

Richard: My mum and I are really close so I did tell her that we were going on a date. I told her how lovely Cat was and she was really happy when I told her that we were in a relationship. They actually met relatively early on, my Mum and I had booked tickets for a band that we like (she’s cool, what can I say), and we all went to a latin american restaurant and they really hit it off. My Grandma really liked the sound of Cat, and I was so glad when they met for the first time at Christmas when she was visiting in London for my graduation. And yes, they hit it off as well!

My best friend Ste was really happy for me when I told him about Cat, and everyone loved Cat whenever we went to parties together. So yes, nothing but good things. 🙂

A love letter to the LDR Community

Dear LDR Community,

My boyfriend and I have only just recently started our LDR blog – literally a few days ago – but in those very few days, I’ve been privileged to see so many beautiful, strong, loving couples fight the distance for their loves.

What strikes me the most about this community is that, unlike so many other forces in this world these days, this community has founded itself on the purest, deepest feeling of them all: love. And that love they have for someone else hundreds or thousands of miles away breeds so many incredible things:

immeasurable strength to get through lonely days and nights;

incredible empathy for others who are fighting the same tough fight;

intense joy for those who are on the brink of closing the distance for a few days or for good;

and infinitely growing hearts that have the capacity not only to love their soulmates but complete strangers who are brave enough to reach out to members of this community for support.

I go through countless LDR tags on Tumblr, and I know this much is true:

This community is one of the strongest, bravest, most loving communities I have ever come across on here.

Here’s to you, LDR community. Thank you for your love and your support. Know that you will find a safe haven on this blog for your heart, whatever condition it’s in, whatever color of the rainbow it is. Richard and I are here for you in the same way we feel you are there for us.

Love,

Cat