In a healthy relationship, your partner is always supposed to be your partner in crime. They should be a person that builds you up, rather than tear you down. Ideally, you should be a better person with them, rather than without. This could not be more of the case between my partner and me.
I have been dating my boyfriend David for 7 years now. We are middle school sweethearts ( I know I know, trust me we’re not crazy). I know he is my person. All though I have very little dating experience prior besides 7th-grade crushes, I know the way I feel when I am with David is something I would not want to stop feeling. I feel as if I am floating on a cloud when I am with him. We have been long-distance throughout college, and the distance sucks, but we appreciate our time together so much, especially being home on break.
This past winter break, we got into skiing and snowboarding. David has been snowboarding for years, so I decided to try out skiing. This was something we could do together, plus with COVID, there wasn’t much going on anyway. We started going weekly, and I picked it up pretty quickly. Eventually, one of our trips didn’t end so well. On a trip to Massachusetts, David sadly fell on the Black diamond and broke his collarbone. Seeing the person you love to get skied down the mountain in a stretcher is not a fun sight to see. I had to drive us back to Albany while he was in a ton of pain in the passenger seat.
After initially going to the hospital, he wasn’t able to get surgery until a week later, so recovery didn’t start until then. Seeing him in so much pain was hard to watch. David is a very independent person so seeing him need help with things was new to me. Seeing him in such a vulnerable state and needing help laying down to go to sleep was new for me, but it made me feel closer to him by knocking his walls down even more.
After a week or so he didn’t need as much help anymore, and it was time for me to head back to college. Speaking with him daily, he explained to me all the struggles he was dealing with. On top of healing a broken collar bone, he is completing his senior year of college and having sinus surgery upcoming. He wouldn’t complain, he would deal with it. David has probably had the worst 2021, and he gets up every day and keeps going. After he had his sinus surgery he was down in the dumps about the recovery progress never-ending, however, he picked himself right back up, and just dealt with it!
He doesn’t sit around and say “why me” he deals with adversity in a mature, healthy, and attractive way. It makes me proud to be with him and inspires me to be better. He is a special guy and deserves the world. He’s been down on his luck so far in 2021, but good things come to those who wait and I know he is destined for greatness.
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