A lot of people
ask me “how did you fall in love online?” and that can be a very awkward and
confusing question to answer. Mainly because I didn’t plan on falling in love
but also because I fell in love the same way as everyone does. These questions
are the hidden boxes in your parents closet. You just simply don’t open them
and when you do you instantly regret it.
When I started
talking to my now fiancé I rudely told him that I planned on being single for
the rest of my life. That I would be the crazy animal hoarding woman at the end
of the road. He laughed at me and took it upon himself to prove me wrong, that
is the first time to date that he has ever been right about anything. Every
time he complimented me I slammed it to the ground, I was used to being used. I
quickly realized that he had nothing to gain by living 9,506 miles away and
talking to me through Skype. He understood my raw edges, the reason why my
walls were so high.
I’m sure to an
outsider our plot was easily detectable. A handsome intelligent Australian down
on his luck after surgery. An emotional unstable teen on her 17th birthday, oh
how tragic. We spent hours playing lagging monopoly games on Pogo, and even
longer trying to start online movies at the same time. I often fell asleep with
the blue Skype light shining in my bedroom, suddenly I realized. I really don’t
want to get cancer from the number of signals blasting through my brain every
day. So Daniel started to make trips around the world to woe me like the young
chap that he is. Sometimes I even received flowers in the mail, unannounced
from my star-crossed lover. It became apparent that we had to be together so
that is exactly what happened. I gave away 95% of my possessions that wouldn’t
fit in my two suit cases and made the long journey to Australia. To this day
the Skype ring tones gives me a shock of PTSD.
