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Your name: Laura
Age: 22
Location: Bloomington, IN for optometry school
S.O.'s name: Alex (sometimes I call him Jak- which are his initials)
Age: 23
Location: Leesville, LA currently- Iraq in a few months
Miles apart: 900 driving miles
Tell us how you met:
When I was in eighth grade and he was a freshman, he played on the tennis team with my brother. I was at the match watching, and Alex lost his match pretty quickly. So he ended up sitting next to me for a while.
We didn't really know each other well for a while, but the next year we ended up being in some classes together and became good friends all through out high school. We always had crushes on each other, but things just never worked out.
We mostly lost touch when we went to college. But then there was this guy in one of my classes that reminded me of Alex, and I decided to send him an e-mail. We met up over Christmas break and really hit it off again. So finally, after knowing each other for over eight years, we finally started dating. (That was about two years ago.)
How often do you see each other:
It varies a lot. Right now it's about every three months. But soon he'll be deployed to Iraq, and I'll only see him once for that year.
Future plans:
Survive the deployment. Once he gets back- start planning his return to the real world. (He should be leaving the Army near the end of 2010.) He'll probably set up camp in our home town. I'll have about 4 months left of class here in Bloomington, followed by a year of rotations. I don't know where I'll be doing those yet. But then, finally, I'll graduate May 2012, and hopefully get married soon after.
Where you see both of you in 5 years:
Together. No more Army. No more school. House. Real jobs. Basically- "the dream"
Pictures to share:
This is from back in high school.
And this is from his graduation weekend from Basic.
Some more info:
We've been long-distance for about a year and a half now. And it just seems to keep getting harder and harder. We've lost touch with what's really going on in each others' lives. We don't know each others' friends. I'm having trouble going so far in between visits- especially when they're only a weekend at a time, and especially when I can only visit him, not the other way around.
And I see that we're halfway through his time in the Army as the glass being half empty. It's just hard to stay strong when the light at the end of the tunnel is so hard to see.