Modern Day Love

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MacKay and I lived in two different cities when we started dating. For the first 6 months, our relationship consisted of late night phone calls and emails. We would see each other on occasion, but with my senior year of college wrapping up and the fact that we were a 9 hour drive from one another, it made our time together very sparse.

With the distance between us, it sometimes made it difficult to get to know one another. We couldn’t spend our days together cuddling on the couch or our nights chatting over a romantic dinner. We were forced to come up with our own ways to get to know one another on a deeper level. There were so many nights that we would spend hours on the phone learning about one another’s family or finding out what our favorite thing to eat was. We could talk to one another for so long that time literally would pass us by and before we knew it, it would be 4am and MacKay would have to get ready for work in just a couple of hours.

As our telephone chats grew longer and longer at night, it was hard for us to speak together during the day. I still wanted to let him know that I was thinking about him so I would write him emails throughout the day to let him know my day was going and know he was on my mind. Our day time emails soon turned into night time emails and little did I know would turn into a tradition we still carry on today.

Each night after we would get off the phone with one another we would write each other an email. I would read mine before I went to bed {because I was up much later than MacKay} and I would respond to it so that MacKay could have one to read when he woke up {he was up much earlier than I was.} Every night that we were apart from one another would mean another email with details of our lives and our future together.

After we were married and MacKay had to leave for his job in New York it was only natural to keep the emails going. Of course it was hard to have them in each other’s mailbox every night {I still had a newborn at home with me,} but we still did it. It brought the memories back from when we were young and our love was fresh. It helped strengthen our relationship even though we were thousands of miles from one another.

The email “love note” tradition still lives on in our relationship. It helps us know that no matter how many miles apart, distance cannot separate love.

I love this video from the Yahoo! campaign. It shows that you can still stayed connected no matter how far apart you are.