My first crush was a childhood best friends brother and I had the hots for him like no other since the first time I laid eyes on him. Problem is I was 14 and he was 18 .. so obviously legally that was a no go. We did some pretty heavy flirting but we realized we could never have one another. He went off into the military and I went my own way.

Flash to 10 years later and I see him on Tinder.. I’m a ball of nerves wondering if we will match.. we did. My phone lights up ITS A MATCH !, and I was a ball of mush. We do some catching up and I realize he is in Iran over 3,000 miles away so we agree we should probably just be friends anyhow bc of the past and me being his sisters childhood friend, bummer. But we still keep communicating here and there , I got short with the communication because I was frustrated with how far he was and the fact that we were probably on catching up to begin with.

Here’s where things get funny , he keeps messaging me even when I don’t respond he’s persistent but not annoying and I txt him when I feel like it. One night I was bored and decided to video message him , it was late and I thought he’d be asleep .. he wasn’t he video messaged me back and it turned out he was 15 minutes away from me. We were both in shock and instantly thought to meet up because this was no coincidence that he was this close after being so far away. We met up at a 24 hour breakfast spot and spent the whole night talking and catching up and man was he breathtaking and all grown up , well spoken and just a force to be reckoned with all these years later.

We both admitted to being intoxicated by one another even still and we planned a trip for me to meet him at his military base a week later. I did and it was amazing, the way he looked at me , kissed my forehead , rubbed my face lightly with the tips of his fingers while I was asleep.. it was like I was best thing that ever happened to him. I found out he had my name in his phone saved as “The Gift” .. does it get any cuter than that !? I asked him about it and he said it’s that because there’s no way we were that close by chance and I truly believe you are supposed to be in my life , you are my gift from the universe. I didn’t know what to say or how to feel because I had been in love with this man since I first saw him at age 14.. we had the most passionate sex I’d ever had in my life from him wrapping his hands around my hair and pulling me down to kiss him to me whispering in his ear that I always wanted him to be my first and our body’s shuddering ..the way our eyes locked onto each other the entire ride and the way my body crashed when I orgasmed.. it was by far the most beautifully passionate sex I’d ever had and now he’s planning a trip down here to take me out for Valentine’s Day.. I feel like I’m living a dream. I asked him what his takeaway was from our time spent together and he said “dreams really do come true”.

We haven’t told our families because we have pretty intense feelings for one another and we don’t want them to try to tell us there’s other fish in the sea because this feeling is a high like none other.. I don’t know what to do but I just needed to tell someone.. please ask questions and give feedback !