Make Romance Great Again: How Travel Brought Me The Love of My Life

I wanted to take up @SalomeSibonex's request to "Make Romance Great Again" by talking about how I met my wife from a simple conversation over traveling and how traveling helps our romance stay bonded.

I knew my wife's brother but my wife and I never really had long conversations until after her separation from her ex-husband. Later, she would claim that I was intimidating because I would always talk about deep topics that made her feel inadequate to take part in.

But one day we met at her brother's house and we struck up a conversation about her desire to travel now that she was single. She brought up how she had an interest in traveling to Barcelona & by that time I had been there a couple of times already.

When I got home, I sent her a message on Facebook saying it was nice talking to her but got no initial response. Coincidentally, as she had separated from her ex, I was attempting to get back together with an ex and that quickly fell apart (thankfully).

A couple of weeks later, I get a message from Michele apologizing to me because she didn't see the message I sent as she rarely uses Facebook Messenger.

She was weary of going abroad by herself, so I offered to have her travel with me since I was going around the same time she was wanting to. Initially, this was a platonic offer as I've traveled with a woman I had no interest in before. She accepted and we got to know each other.

From that moment on, we talked every day.

We were both lonely, had lots of free time, and would speak daily for hours on end. She lived in New York and I was in New Jersey but we eventually decided to meet up for dinner. Dinner turned into a movie and then a weekend together.

That was in September of 2019 when we officially became a couple. From the beginning, our relationship was easy, as in we just got along great. She, for the first time, felt comfortable in a relationship. We were able to be ourselves and laugh at how goofy we were.

One day we had a conversation about her wanting to go somewhere and how she couldn't wait till 2020 to travel. I said "Where do you want to go?" and she said "Paris". I said, "Let's do it!"

In December 2019, we went to Paris for a 4 night getaway and that was when I told her I loved her for the first time. As you all know, the pandemic hit in 2020 and it happened right when we had planned to bounce around Europe & see Barcelona.

With our plans canceled, we stayed together and had the best staycation ever. The pandemic was odd for us because while everything was crazy outside, inside our relationship we were flourishing and growing together. In September 2020, I proposed to her in Virginia Beach.

A year later, in September 2021, we got married in a church and took a midnight flight to Turkey. We wanted a small wedding and to spend our money on traveling for our honeymoon. She had the travel bug now and loved my free-flowing way of traveling.

In September 2022, our one-year anniversary, we finally had the opportunity to go to Barcelona together & she damn near fell in love with the place. We spent 2 weeks bouncing around Europe, meeting friends of mine that I met along my travels, and relaxing by the beach in Lisbon.

Michele is the best woman I could ever find to spend the rest of my life with. I'm incredibly blessed to have found her. She's supported me in every way in my life and believed in me throughout my recent success. Hell, she even helped edit my book.

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We now have plans to travel for 2 weeks in Italy and Greece this September to celebrate our anniversary. September is our month and traveling is an activity that we use to bond.

Traveling is what brought us together and now traveling is what helps to keep us connected.