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What would you do for the woman you love?

 It was a little into senior right after i had come out to my friends. My best friend (Who i have known for 8 years and consider my sister) tells me that shes in love with me and wants to start a relationship. Im sure you could imagine my reaction. it was quite a shock. At first i didnt know what to say but after i had some time to think about i realized that there was no one else in the world that i loved more ,and and enjoyed being around as much as i did her.Not soon after my revalation i asked her to be my girlfriend. Everthing was amazing except when I found out that her parents wanted to move to their home town in Tennessee. keep in mind that we where in Seattle washinton.Offcourse i was devestated beacause she had promised all her family there that she would return. And i knew that she is not one to break a promise. Not to long after the summer came and it was time for her to leave. Ive never cried so much in my life, it was the hardest thing i had to do. Offcourse i told her that i would move down with her, but she didnt believe me. So i proved it. I left my friends,my family, my home for a one way ticket to Nashville TN. Sofar its been a world of a difference compared to Seattle but i dont regret a damn thing! I love this woman and i will do anything for her. Im glad to say weve been together for almost 2 years now!I know this might not seem like a huge sacrafice to some of you but for me it was. I just wanted to know what some of you have done or wish you would have for someone you love/ed?

cristina's picture

Heather !!!

I think you did an amazing and loving thing....  I have never done anything that drastic... but i did have this amazing relationship with a woman when i was in college... she was older and married with 3 kids....  She had asked me if she left her husband, would we try and be together.??  i understand that she may have left him with or without me but i could not be the reason she left her husband behind or be the reason she caused whatever pain to her kids...  i ended it and i was heart broken... for a long time ->       that was 8 years ago and she is still married  !!

ps.. i wish you all the best... 

heather's picture

Thank you thats very sweet

Thank you thats very sweet of you. I think that was a very selfless thing you did.
Alice's picture

wowww!

I'll do whatever it takes to be with her... to make her happy.. cuz i will be happy too...  great thing u did.. u follow ur heart.... :D

Psynomi's picture

Anything and everything

For the woman I love, truly love... I would do anything and everything. You don't get a lot of chances for a thing like that, so you have to do everything in your power to hold on to it.

My best friend actually moved from Australia to Holand to be with the girl he loves and he says he would do it again in a heartbeat. So I would definitely follow in his and your footsteps, without a doubt...

 

Az's picture

*s*

nice post and question, good on you.

things done:

moved from "home" freinds/family twice (always seem to go with/to them *shrugs* and from south to north), first time was london (great place overall) to middlesborough, second was birimingham (hell hole) to Leeds (cross country pretty much), if they're worth you then they're worth "it" if not, what're ya doing?

there's some other stuff but less cheery, sometimes you have to do some dark stuff for someone you love.

 

would never do's:

change myself/pretend to be someone im not/go against my own standards, money is based on debit, its only the shifting around of whats owed from individual to individual it isnt really real, the only real currency is yourSelf, there's times youve got to sell something of that but if you do so to often with to poor a reason, you lose the only currency you really have, you.

 

 

"weigh each of your words with care, for they will betray "you" and are by which you are weighed."
"Freedom of speech is not an excuse to say anything you want carelessly and then the means to avoid an acco

Sabrie's picture

Good on you....

Awh fair play to you, that was a surefire sign of your commitment and glad to see you followed through with your heart and are still happy together. As for what i've done and what I would do, umm haven't been given the chance yet, I met a girl last summer and we really hit it off but turns out she was with someone but we were texting a lot, like a lot more than you'd text a regular friend, and I was really into her but never knew how she felt about me, then I booked a trip around the world, which I had always wanted to do. She broke up with her girlf then and we ended up meeting up and dating casually. i was and still am crazy about her, I started my trip in January and I think a lot of people were expecting me not to go, but if I'm to have any future with her or any other woman, I need to do this. I'm coming home in a couple of weeks and am so nervous about seeing her even though we've kept in contact. I feel like we have unfinished business.........
shabeana's picture

Same same

I was put in a similiar situation. My partner had to do her rural service for Teaching as she had taught in the city district since leaving uni. She got posted on Thursday Island, (yes i said an island) and position 2700km away from our families, in a remote indigenous community(2000 people live on the island). I was a manager of disability centre in the city (great job) but dropped everything to be with her. We moved 5 years ago, and are happy living in our island paradise together. The community knows that we are together and she has now made deputy principal of the school. There was no other decision to make. Where ever she does I will follow.  
LittlestBoom's picture

for her i would give her my

for her i would give her my all.

making her happy makes me very happy, she is my future and i know she feels the same x]]

we have 2 hours distance between us at the moment, but see each other as much as possible. i have moved away from home for a girl before and it was a mistake as i was young and stupid.

she is my one and only and im going to work so hard so we can get our own place and have our own life together. ive never been so sure of anything ever.

 

 

icanwaitforever.'s picture

stupid spiders.

I would move accross the world for someone i loved.. i would rather die then ever let harm come to her.. and i would spend my life trying to make her smile.. Nothings more amazing then making her smile..

 

I did once capture a HUGE hairy spider and set it free for my ex.. thats probably nothing to you all but i have aracanaphobia baaaad! i throw up and cry uncontrollably whenever im near a spider so catching it and setting it free was HUGE for me!

Personally I would have killed the bastard for coming into my house.

Nodame's picture

What wouldn't I do.. maybe a

What wouldn't I do.. maybe a better question to ask me ^.^
BoredCat's picture

I dont know....hmmmm

Currently i am with a very fabulous person but then again she is straight and things are getting complicated cuz she wants to settle down and have a family with a man soon (not too soon maybe in few years time)..though i love her damn much i know she wouldnt leave her normal life for me..so i wish her nothing but happiness and i pray and hope she will get married to a man who can love her and take care of her more than i did..until that moment arrives i am going take care of her and love her my heart out =) so that is what i am going to do for the one i love now.. btw what you did was no little thing! take care and have a happy life =)

sarky7's picture

I would do what ever was

I would do what ever was needed so that I could be with the person I love, move to where ever she lived, change my job, make new friends.... its easy really because that special lady, friend, lover, soulmate just doesnt come along very often.  I'm so lucky to have met my special someone yeah she lives 2 hours away and hell yeah its hard at times to see her go or leave her but she is worth it.  I would turn my life upside down for her and she would do the same for me in a heart beat.  x

oh linking to another thread I would sleep with a man for $5million dollars if u wanted me too baby...thats a lot of money ;o) !!    

the worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself

LittlestBoom's picture

please dont sleep with a

please dont sleep with a guy...uugghh lol! were not that desperate for cash!

mwah

x

sarky7's picture

hahahahahaha good answer

hahahahahaha good answer gorgeous!!  mwah too x 

the worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself

Ck's picture

The heart has reason reason knows nothing of

My GF LIVES 17 HOURS AWAY FROM ME. I would move there in a heart beat to be with her. We are both actually trying to decide now which one of us wants to move where. But we both know we would sacrifice leaving our homes for one another. I'm just trying to be patient saving up money to be smart about it all. It's very hard not seeing her everyday though. I think what you did was amazing and if you truley love someone its worth the risk because it's not something easily found.