Overview

Not the perfect love story but we are willing to make it work.

I've been born and raised in the typical African home,where you are taught to stay away from boys till you are done will school,that is , after university. So I was not given any  advice in regered to dating and how to love someone.The whole situation even becomes harder when you are an introvert like I am

So I met this guy this guy when I was seventeen .We started off as friends ours wasn't the typical love story, where boy mets girl and its love at first sight, no that wasn't us.We both were both parted ways after we joined campus ,made new friends ,had new interests and totally had different lives and even lost contact.Then one afternoon, three years down the line when I was home for the long holidays, I bumped into him at the local market as I was doing some shopping. This time there was something totally different about him, there was something I could feel.So we exchanged contacts and kept in touch.So conversations turned in flirting and soon enough the conversation was totally different. We were in love and he asked me to be his girlfriend and of course I said yes and  breaking the keep boys away rule.

The  only knowledge I have  on dating is basically what I see in movies and read from novels.Naïve, innocent and a hopeless romantic that's how I am at this point that am giving dating a chance.I was letting someone in this little space I have created for myself it wasn't going to be easy.At first letting go of all.the guys that were also looking for Chance with you wasn't easy I rember we even fought about it. Dating especially in this error of technology is really funny because at times I find myself quite angry if he doesn't reply my texts on time or if he likes other girls pictures on Instagram. Of course we have moments when we have our highs and sometimes we have fights but what keeps us going is forgiveness and lots of love.Getting into this relationship I thought it was going to be easy ,you know how Instagram couples portai their relationships on the gram ,but this people lie.Sometimes we fight I cry so much and I want to tell my mum what's going on in my life and ask her for advice but I can't do that because am breaking the rules so what I am  left with is telling my friends who are basically like me and ask for their advice.

To me, being in love is having the gaps in your life filled that you didn't even know needed filling. It's the feeling of having your head in the clouds but feet on the ground all at the same time.Its getting how to know this person  more everyday and getting to love even his flaws.Being in love feels like being lost in the right direction. It just feels right. Being in love feels like I found an extension of myself that I never knew I had until he helped me discover there is more to me than I thought. When I am with him, I feel like I am with someone I have known my whole life, who sees me for who I am and loves me for things I don’t even love about myself.

Sure me and my boo fight but what's important is that we are both are willing to work things out because to be honest if you aren’t willing to fight for it, then you clearly don’t want it enough and God knowns that this man so much.We don't complete each others sentences all the time but conflict is an opportunity for growth. When you intimately share your life with someone there are going to be disagreements.

WRITER: June wanjiku