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If you’re single, there will probably be a lot of people who say that you’ll find someone someday, but that it will just take time to find the right person for you. Many young women will want to give up on finding love if they don’t find anyone by the time they finish college, but for those of you who are still staying optimistic and hoping that you will find the right person, you shouldn’t lose hope. For the longest time, I have been a shy person and I’ve hated meeting new people in person, so I continued trying online dating and hoped that one day I would finally find someone. There are a lot of guys on online dating apps who are just wanting to find women just so they can have sex with someone and the idea of a longtime relationship is unfathomable to them. But there are men out there who are still serious about wanting to find a relationship too, but it’s just taking them a while to find their perfect person in life.
My boyfriend and I matched on Facebook Dating on November 23rd, 2022, and even though we were in a long-distance relationship because we were living six hours apart at the time, we were always talking nonstop. I lived in Wheeling, West Virginia and he lived in Dover, Delaware, but for some unknown reason despite the distance between us, we were wanting to make a relationship between us work. We had a lot of video calls, phone calls, and text messages that were exchanged between us before we met for the first time on December 30, 2022, and since then there hasn’t been a day when we haven’t been together. When we first matched, I had just started a new job as a reporter for The Wheeling Intelligencer and the last thing that I expected to happen at that time was to match with the most perfect guy imaginable. The more we talked, we realized just how similar we are and often joke with each other and say that we are the same person. In the last several months that we have known each other, he has become not only my boyfriend but also my best friend. We have similar senses of humor and a similar way of speaking, and I am so happy that at the end of every day that I get to call him my boyfriend because he is the type of guy, I had always hoped that I would end up with.
However, not everyone is always going to get as lucky as I have when it comes to relationships. In the past, I had my share of terrible men that I had the unfortunate opportunity of going out with in the past. I found out later, after those relationships ended, that the problem was never me, it was the guys I was with in the past. I was used to getting kicked off to the side, told that I didn’t matter, or that spending time with me was a waste of their time. I ended up becoming an unhappy version of myself, and I never enjoyed the fact that I allowed the guys that I chose to date at the time to make me feel that way. So, I knew that whenever I found the person that I was going to be with forever, that I wasn’t going to let anything stop me from finally having a happy relationship that I have always deserved.
Currently, in my life, I am the happiest that I have ever been and I have Ian to thank for that because without him, I don’t know where I would be. In January 2023, I decided to move to Dover, Delaware and even though I live six hours away from the town where I grew up, I have never been happier because I knew that I was never going to find anyone as good for me as Ian has been. After all, there is nobody else like him out there. Having a happy relationship is one of those things that everyone can strive for but they are one of the things that unfortunately take a lot of time to find and when you finally find one it will all be worth it in the end.
This was written by our founder and editor-in-chief, Hanna Peters.
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