Oh wow, I got really behind again. Sorry guys :/ It’s midterm time, life is hectic. BUT ANYWAY 

Day 10 - Favorite thing about him?

How incredibly supportive and kind he is. He makes me feel like I can do anything, helps hold me up when everything around me is falling apart. It’s amazing. 

Day 11 - Pick one thing you miss and describe it in detail

I just miss being near him. I miss being able to nudge him playfully when we joke, and hold his hand, and kiss him, and snuggle while we watch movies/shows, and hold each other when we sleep. I miss the way his arms feel around me, how safe and warm I feel beside him. 

Day 12 - How would you define love?

That’s tricky - I think love is different for everybody. For me, love is knowing someone entirely, good and bad, and still feeling exactly the same about them. Love is letting someone know you completely, even when you’re at your weakest and most vulnerable, and still knowing they will be there for you. Love is being willing to work through anything because what you have with that person is worth that much effort. Love is caring and kindness and putting someone before you almost always. But love is also when that person refuses to let you put them before you, because they care about you just as much. 

Love is finding yourself in someone else. Realizing that someone shares the same thoughts and feelings that you have, and being surprised because you always though you were weird for feeling those things.

Day 13 - What do you think is the hardest thing about distance?

I think this is a tie between time management (friends, work, school, boyfriend), and miscommunications due to bad phone service or internet, etc. 

Day 9 - Favorite thing he’s given you

For our first Christmas together, Sean gave me a necklace. He was really stressing about it, and had a hard time actually finding one, but the one he picked was perfect. He asked if he could give it to me privately, and when I opened it he explained why he chose it. 

He told me it reminded him of us. The twisty knotted heart was our past - all the complicated times we had in the year before we were dating - and the perfect silver heart is how we are now. He felt like this necklace really symbolized our relationship. 

It was pretty much the most amazing and thoughtful gift I’ve ever been given. 

Day 8 - Favorite thing you’ve given him

For Christmas I made him a Companion Cube 3x3 Puzzle. I drew everything, assembled the cube - it was almost entirely handmade. I was so proud of it and he really likes it too. 

Sorry, I got super crazy behind. Whoops! Anyway:

Day 5 - Since when have you been together?

Sean and I first confronted our feels on April 18th, 2011, but didn’t start dating until February 10th, 2012.

Day 6 - What is the most random thing you know about your significant other?

Oh, that’s tough. I mean, I know so many things about Sean - how do I choose one that would be random to everyone else?

Hmm. Probably the way he feels like he has to do something - usually watch something online - while he eats. If it occurred to him before he started eating, and he was planning on watching something, it’s really hard for him to do anything else when the actual eating happens. He’s waited for me to be ready to watch a show before he’s started eating dinner before.

Day 7 - How do you communicate with each other?

I’m not sure if this question is acting about methods, or actions, so I’m going to answer both! We use Skype, texting, phone calls, and occasionally Facebook chat, to talk. As far as HOW we communicate - we communicate better than almost any couple I know. We are both very open, and we both want the other to be happy, so we’re usually good at listening to how the other is feeling without getting angry or shutting down. Our arguments tend to be mostly discussion, and we never ever walk away from a fight. 

Day 4 - How Did You Meet?

This is a pretty ridiculous story, actually. Sean and I met almost 5 years ago. I was a sophomore in high school, and met this guy, R, on young writer’s society, a website for ages 13 to 18 writers. R and I were kind of dating - as much as you can when you’re 14 and online and the guy you think you like is actually a player. 

Well, R was Sean’s best friend. And Sean listened to R talk about me and became curious ,but, because R was playing me, R wouldn’t give Sean a way to contact me. So one afternoon, Sean came over to R’s house, and while R was in the bathroom or something, Sean got on his computer and messaged me on AIM. 

He said one thing to me - I don’t remember what, it was probably something simple like “hi” or “is this Bella?” (my online name at the time, I was a super safe teenager). And I realized who he was immediately. I was like “you must be Sean!”

That is how we became superest duperest bestest friends (sdbfs). That is where this all started. :)

Day 3 - Your Locations

Sean is from North Carolina, and I’m from Michigan (but living in Wisconsin for school).

Here is a picture of my first visit to North Carolina! 

Day 2 - Your Ages 

I’m 20 (holy crap, I’m 20!), and Sean is 22. 

(and here’s our first real life picture together ^.^)

Day 1 - Your Names

My name is Jacquelynn and my lovely other half’s name is Sean :) 

I thought our first picture together would be a fitting edition to this post: 

 

My dream boyfriend is tall, and kind of awkward. Physically he matches his nerdy, intelligent personality. He’s kind and sweet, always making me feel special and loved. I know I can depend on him, and he holds me up on my hardest days, when I am feeling my weakest. He is always there for me, even if that means doing silly things like telling me bedtime stories about princesses and magic until I fall asleep. My dream boyfriend puts just as much into our relationship as I do, so I never feel like I’m the only one starting conversations or suggesting we do things. He finds new things for us to do together, to keep us close. My dream boyfriend accepts me as I am, even when my anxieties kick in and I worry about ridiculous things, and even when I’m self-centered and not very nice. He’s everything I ever wanted in a boy, plus a billion things I never even thought of before I experienced them with him. And, most importantly, he loves me with his whole heart, as I love him with mine. 

I already have my dream boyfriend - I’m a very lucky girl :)