Kory and I met our freshman year of high school. I sat behind him in Ms. Baldwin’s geography class. One day, he had gotten his Discman back from a friend he had loaned it too with the wrong CD in it (how dated is that sentence?!). It turns out, his friend had accidentally kept Kory’s CD and left their Tool CD in the Discman when they returned it. At this point in time, Kory was definitely not a fan. So, after I had sat down behind him and class had begun, Kory decided he was going to doodle in his notebook very metal things while listening to some music instead of what our in-class assignment was (I’m sure his mom is nodding her head right now thinking, “that sounds like Kory.”). He got comfortable, put his headphones on, started the CD and
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Single. Going-away. Event. She. Held.
So – before we ever started dating – Kory went above and beyond. He met my mom’s entire family, had dinner with us, drank with us, went to Country bars with us and danced with me. My aunt and uncle, Crystal and Chris, sat me down after one such dinner and told me, “He likes you. No one does all this for another person if they don’t want to be there. You can’t let him go.” But ‘go’ he did. He went back to Missouri on black Friday 2012 and we agreed that we simply couldn’t do a long distance relationship.
We tried to remain just friends and even dated other people but after about 6 months, we couldn’t not be together, so I said “we’re dating now” and that was that. I think our relationship was exactly what we needed when we got together. I was in Houston finishing my undergrad, Kory was in Missouri trying to make a name for himself in the Air Force; we needed a certain level of independence to be great for one another. We spent 2 years this way, traveling back and forth on our time off to see each other, finding time to talk or text, Kory even got me playing Diablo III as a way to spend time together. It was hard. There were entire days that we didn’t get a single text from one another because of our opposite schedules, but as they say, “Long Distance Relationships are inconveniently the most effective way to find out if you really love each
Single. Going-away. Event. She. Held.
So – before we ever started dating – Kory went above and beyond. He met my mom’s entire family, had dinner with us, drank with us, went to Country bars with us and danced with me. My aunt and uncle, Crystal and Chris, sat me down after one such dinner and told me, “He likes you. No one does all this for another person if they don’t want to be there. You can’t let him go.” But ‘go’ he did. He went back to Missouri on black Friday 2012 and we agreed that we simply couldn’t do a long distance relationship.
We tried to remain just friends and even dated other people but after about 6 months, we couldn’t not be together, so I said “we’re dating now” and that was that. I think our relationship was exactly what we needed when we got together. I was in Houston finishing my undergrad, Kory was in Missouri trying to make a name for himself in the Air Force; we needed a certain level of independence to be great for one another. We spent 2 years this way, traveling back and forth on our time off to see each other, finding time to talk or text, Kory even got me playing Diablo III as a way to spend time together. It was hard. There were entire days that we didn’t get a single text from one another because of our opposite schedules, but as they say, “Long Distance Relationships are inconveniently the most effective way to find out if you really love each