History

Mr. W and me will celebrate our ninth year together this May. We met when I was just 24 year and he had just turned 30. About a year and a half into our relationship Mr. W left to go into an audit program and we became a LDR. We did the long distance thing for about two and a half years until we got engaged and I moved to be with him. About a year later we were moved back to PA for his job and about three months after that we broke up.


That break up was what ultimately saved our relationship. My trust had been shattered and I had to find it again. I got my own place and started to date Mr. W again. Getting my own place really made me grow as a person. I went from college, to roommates to moving in with him. I really embraced my new found freedom and flourished. I dated Mr. W for about eight months before I found out that he was being moved to Virginia again. This time I was determined to embrace being in an LDR and enjoy my free time during the week. Luckily we only had to travel from the Philly area to the DC area so we could see each other each weekend. About four months after Mr. W moved we got engaged again and set our date for ten months later. Even though we were engaged I wasn’t ready to jump the gun and move to VA and Mr. W really had to convince me to start applying for jobs since the economy was tanking. Much to my surprise I found a job within a month and moved three weeks later (about four months before the wedding).

We were married November 2008 and since we had been through so much already we knew we were ready to start a family. I thought it would happen right away. What a joke! So now our anniversary is a celebration of our marriage it is also a marker of our IF. This year was our first and I can’t imagine what it will be like to get to our second without a BFP.

I have no idea what compelled me to write all of this. I guess I’m feeling a bit nostalgic today.