today is the last of our features.
its been so fun hearing stories and advice.
theres nothing more i love. weird i know.
but i love sappy stories and dating advice.
today's feature is
nicole.
I am Nicoole.It's a wonderful life.
I married Jerry Theo. Also known as Jason in real life.
Right now, I like making my apartment cute and crafting.
Right now, He likes redbull and slim jims.
I always hate rolling backpacks.
He always hates when people drive slow.
We have no children, no pets, and no living plants.
We have lots of school and homework.
We have matching his and hers jeeps. Only they're not exactly matching. They are 2 different types and colors.
Sometimes I mow the lawn and Jason does the dishes.
Sometimes he cooks dinner and I buy the windshield washer fluid.
One day I will be a nurse.
One day he will be something with a car.
We have been dating, waiting, engaged, and married for 4 years and 10 months. (Not all at once)
He loved me on July 4th 2006, went on a mission February 20th 2008, proposed on December 31 2009, and married me on May 20th 2010.
We are neat.
Our life is nonsense.
During my freshman, sophomore and half of my junior year, I hade a boyfriend whom we shall call "A". Life was good. I was young and content.
He was all I ever knew, because he was my first and only love thus far in my life. We had the same friends, believed the same things, and he was very good to me. I became really good friends with one of A's close friends. His name is Jason. Jason played basketball and I was a cheerleader at his games. Typical, right? He was someone I could always talk to. someone who i always thought about. I tried for so long to hide my feelings for him because i didn't think it was ok. Jason quickly became one of my best friends. and it stayed at that. Nothing ever happened, we never did anything wrong, and i was still just....content. My drill team had national's in Florida so off we went. while there I received a call from "A" telling me that he had gone on a date. with another girl. I thought my life was over. When I got home, I was a mess. This is where it gets complicated.
1. Jason asked me out, I said yes
2. "A" did not like this, he wanted me back....yada yada yada
3. I liked 2 boys....I loved 2 boys...at the same time
4. I probably had like 7 zits and red eyes for a week
5. I thought my life was over at 17
6. I had made a group of high testosterone leveled, large muscle,closed minded boys very angry at one another
and then one day during a fantastic styrofoam- trayed cafeteria lunch, jason was lying on the ground and i was standing above him talking, and my flip flops slid in the opposite directions and my legs split like the red sea. The next thing I knew I was on eye level with Jason, and I had completed a wardrobe change. My jeans were practically a skirt....well a skirt that only attaches at your waist and ankles. and yes....Jason saw what color my underwear was. Thank the heavens I had some on. In that exact moment I knew I had to marry him. No joke.
Then we got married 4 years later.
Jason and I were together the rest of that year and all through our senior year. He gave me a promise ring, took me to every dance, drove me to and from school, walked with me at graduation, and got a job with my father and brother in law. I was with him when he opened his mission call and I was waiting for him when he came home. High school love is silly. It is immature and naive. But taking the chances I did changed my life forever. It was real love and it grew. It was what i needed. I got out of a "content" relationship and chose a very different and challenging one. Marriage is the hardest thing I have had to deal with yet in my life. i am not perfect. He is not perfect. I have to merge myself and every aspect of my life with another person's life. I now fully understand why someone could divorce another person over money! Its hard and tiring and crazy at times. but when you find the right person, every bit of it is worth it. He is mine and I am his for eternity. That is all that really matters. We dated, I waited, and it worked.
"Don't settle for the one you can live with. Wait for the one you can't live without".
thanks Nicole!!!
and
thanks everyone who shared their stories
and those who read them!!
hope you enjoyed them.
i know i did.
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