I've been considering writing my story here for a long time, but I tend to get exhausted with how many details there are, how deep the story goes, and I'm someone who can easily write huge posts to fulfill how much I feel I need to write sometimes.
That being said, I felt like writing a shorter version of an otherwise long saga in my life that has occurred over the past 12 years.
In 2006 I met someone who permanently became a huge influence on my life. It wasn't long after I got my first computer after I turned 15, and after I turned 16 I met her. (I'm a guy).
We fell in love quickly and overcame many trials together, facing a daunting long-distance relationship, family issues, and life-complications. Our relationship was very special and it wasn't just my opinion- we were a couple everyone rooted for and knew pretty well back in the Myspace days. We traveled across the country several times over 5 years and talked every day. Both of us were faithful and true to each other, and we took pride in proving the naysayers wrong who didn't approve of our long distance love. We experienced many things together (watched movies, shows, talked all day and night, gamed together a little) and more whether we were far away or beside each other. She gave me an energy I have never felt since those days, caused me to face fears- made me feel it was possible to overcome even the big ones I hadn't faced yet- some that are beyond impossible for me since. She was everything to me and I loved her fiercely. Our love was so strong that everyone we knew, knew it well, like we were some kind of protagonists in a movie. You get the point.
A time came where she made a poor decision with her family to host a school friend who was a guy who had nowhere to stay. We had met in Junior High, and made it all the way to the end of our last year of High School, already having college plans together where we'd finally begin living together. In the final days before the big 5 year wait was finally up, when we could both taste the excitement of nearly being together for good- he did some unspeakable things to her. The guy had a past record of robbery and praying on girls or something, and he intimidated her. The guy, his friends, and her brother's friends never liked me because they never knew me, and didn't like the idea of such a sweet and innocent girl moving 2000 miles away from a rural country town to a place like Cali where I'm from. With a lot of pressure, and his taking advantage of her, she had a nervous breakdown and one night cheated on me with him after giving up. No matter what anyone said I knew her better than anyone, I knew she had no intention to hurt me, and from the way things looked no one ever believed me back then. She cried to me on the phone for being so ashamed of what had happened, she lost it, wrote terrible things on her walls, totally broke down that she failed me, even though a lot of the pressure and crime was coming from him. After that I raised nearly 2 grand in a month to fly her to my place to stay for the holidays and see her after such a thing, and we spent a month together through Christmas and New Years and had a really special time. However over the months that followed, the guy was still there, pressuring her and her and I regrettably had our first fight ever and we started drifting apart as I got irritated that she wasn't communicating with me enough. (Going half a week without a word, where we were both used to talking daily or almost daily).