My decision's impact is still in progress but if everything works out it'll end up having a huge one. Long story short I was looking for a new way to talk hockey with people online since the old forum got lame, ended up making a Twitter. Followed and met some great people hockey fans or not. This was about 5/6 years ago which I consider peak Twitter. Anyway through all the great people I end up meeting a cute Canadian who likes hockey too (duh) and we start chatting about that. I'd make some jokes about her team and vice versa. Fast forward and we start messaging privately, then texting regularly, then calling & skyping/rabbit. (For those who don't know Rabbit is a site you can see and talk to each other while also watching the same screen like a show or movie). We have a bunch of sleepless nights staying up talking about life, our fears and hopes etc. We become extremely close. We have our "IRL" friends but both of us have kinda found out we only truly trusted each other with everything. Through the years we become very close and she starts going to Uni and we both started finding it harder and harder everyday being apart physically from one another(Not like that...okay sometimes like that). So we had a couple times where we tried to be "adult" about it and just keep everything friendly and basically tone down how much we talked to each other because of being far apart, but couldn't. We both had some worries about meeting online and how that looked to other people like family and friends too. But decided fuck what others think because even the smallest call or text just to vent to each other about our problems helped tremendously. I've always daydreamed about what it would be like meeting up and just trying things out. Well fast forward 5 years and her school has given the opportunity for a job in various locations, one that happens to be much closer to me.(Not so close that if there was a problem we'd be stuck together. So less risk) So one day she just asks about meeting up over the summer and without hesitation I say yes. Now I didn't mention this earlier but I am riddled with social anxiety and just am not one to jump up and do something like this, so when this was brought up to the family finally it came with much surprise. My folks are cool about it and actually really encourage me to do this. We both realized a lot of people would probably see this as a huge no-no but I just can't sit around for the rest of my life wondering "what if". We're both in our early 20s and have just decided fuck it, let's see what happens.
So 5 days from now she's coming in, meeting my family, then a few days later we're flying back to where she'll be staying a few months and trying things out. It's my first time flying, first time in foreign country, first time trying out a relationship with a cute hockey loving Canadian girl I met online. And I'm terrified. But I am also excited. Worst case scenario is (death) we decide it won't work and stay friends, have a fun "vacation" hanging out and stay in touch after. Best case scenario is maybe one day I'm posting a similar story about this, hopefully better written, and I'm talking about a 5 year anniversary or something. But who knows? The unknown about this situation has surprisingly excited me. And I'm not about to sit around for the rest of my life wondering "what if?".
So here we go. Wish us luck reddit.