gay edition!

Not a complete success story, but honestly, it did change my life so I feel the need to post this here.

On July 1st 2021, shortly after posting an , I got a message from someone. It read:

"Hi, I just saw your post on . You sound a lot like me. Too bad I'm in Ontario or I think we'd click pretty well. I'm always open to chat though."

After adding him on Discord, we ended up talking regularly. Turns out we were indeed very alike - we had a similar taste in music, he was interested in playing some games with me, we had similar perceptions of people and situations, similar thinking patterns... the list goes on.

We grew pretty close, and things started getting very flirtatious about a month into talking. Soon after, on August 8th, we decided to start dating (it might seem pretty fast, but we were spending a LOT of time with each other). We'd play games together (mostly Dying Light and Dead by Daylight), whether it be just the two of us or with a friend group. We'd call a lot, not always talking but just enjoying each other's compaOntario.

Eventually, he expressed the desire to get a new job to start saving to visit me. It would be a long journey, as he lives in Ontario and I'm in the UK, but he's used to flying to Toronto to visit his grandparents so he was up for it. However, the job started to wear him down quite a lot, and we'd talk less and less (the unfortunate reality of long-distance). Even though we'd talk things out a lot (with it pretty much always ending well), we grew more and more distant and it became apparent he wasn't able to handle the relationship.

We broke up on February 6th 2022 - barely missing the 6 month mark. It was a friendly breakup though, because we totally still have the feelings for each other; he just couldn't deal with the pressure. That, and I really felt (and still feel) that he's a special person.

Anyway, we spent some time away from each other, and things started to calm down a little bit. As I mentioned, we're still friends: the only reason we aren't together is because of the distance. He got promoted at work and got a new PC, so he started contacting me regularly again and we played some games together sporadically.