So a little about me, 4 years ago about this time I met the love of my life. We were and are polar opposite people, but absolutely he is my soul mate. We didnt know each other at all the night before we met, we had a ton of mutual friends, and our paths should have crossed years before that but they never did. The night I met him I was instantly attracted to him, and we started talking, and after the first night we hung out we were pretty much inseparable.
When I say we are polar different people its because our backgrounds are so different. My love's family is pretty well off, college-educated, seemingly straight laced. He grew up in a nice area, and his dad works for a prominent computer company and he was exposed to a lot more technology than I ever was. They always had computers and video games and that kind of stuff in their house, and I didnt really. My family was pretty lower middle class, I grew up in Flint, Michigan, didnt have video game consoles, didnt even know PC gaming was a thing..keep in mind im 25 years old. I played sports and my dad was super into athletics, he played soccer, baseball, and hockey until i was almost in junior high. My parents are super irresponsible, late generation hippies. Just polar opposite of his family.
Instead of this being a bad thing, its been the best part of our relationships, we have exposed eachother to so much new stuff. I love learning the stuff he knows, and I love taking him to do stuff he never really did, like go to Red Wings games and camping and stuff. It has helped us to develop our relationship and make it stronger through learning together, as well as given us the opportunity to grow as a couple and have our own individual lives outside of our relationship. The biggest hobby my love has is playing a card game.
I didnt know it at the time but my love plays a game that Im sure only half of you have ever heard of called Magic: The Gathering. He is really amazing at it, and travels all over the U.S. to play in huge money winning tournaments. He gets better all the time, and so he plays more often than he used to when we first got together. Lately he has been going out of state at least once a month, sometimes twice a month to play. I am so proud of him for going after something he loves, and working hard, but its hard for me sometimes to stay home by myself.
I am not proud to say it, but I am awfully co-dependent. I love just being near him, even after 4 years, I am the most content just being in the same room with him, even if it means watching him look at MtG stuff on the computer, or playing video games. He's my nerd, the love of my life, and one of the smartest and funniest people Ive ever known.
It does suck sitting at home by myself a night or two a week or every once in a while on a weekend, but its worth it to watch him do something he loves, and hes damn good at. I am so proud of him, even if that means constantly having to explain why hes out of town and not able to make it to an event.
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