Slay All Day

A lot of couple, myself included, had to go through the uncomfortable phase of long distance relationship. I can vouch that it was challenging, intimidating, but highly rewarding at the end of the road. When asked about this daunting phase, this was what Joshua and Theresia had to say:

“We would absolutely do it all over again. The promise of having bigger room to grow made long distance relationship appealing to us. Hearing the personal growth that we experience separately but simultaneously every time we skyped made it all worthwhile.”

Not only did they make it out alive. But they slayed!

Seasoned. That’s how I would describe Joshua and Theresia. Not because of their age, but because of the pungent sense of maturity that was impossible to miss during our very short conversation. Although arranging small surprises for our partners are important to keep the excitement alive, Theresia sees more value in Joshua’s willingness in making sure that Theresia and the rest of her family is well taken care of. It’s in the way Joshua always he always drives her family around, it’s in the way he genuinely delights in conversations with Theresia’s father, it’s in the way Joshua never complains about having to work over hours yet still fights his fatigue to call Theresia in the taxi on his way home. His love is spoken loudly through the smallest things in life, and that’s romantic to Theresia.

A lot of changes in the mind, the heart, and the language of love had to happen in order to achieve their level of maturity. Was it painful? Indeed. Theresia and Joshua are the perfect example of opposite attracts. One is fluent in expressing how she feels and often does big gestures to speak her love, but the other is more subdued yet does offer more energy through his acts of service towards her. The differences in expectation of what love should look like was a part of the growing pains that they needed to endure.

Once again they slayed! A couple that slays together, stays together. Joshua and Theresia’s relationship teaches us to see value in what we learn during the uncomfortable time of waiting, growing up and staying in love. Because at the end of the day real love always brings out the best in us, it always stays with us whenever, wherever, whatever until the end of time.