It's Complicated

I've seen a lot of people I know recently change their relationship status on Facebook to It's Complicated over the past few weeks, and sadly I can see a few more coming. I certainly am not going to judge - most of them I don't know well enough or know their significant other at all to have any opinion on their situations. But it makes me feel fortunate that even dispite the limbo I currently live in, I have someone - my significant other - that's complicated but not "this isn't working" complicated.

We had a nice chat today about feeling like we're in school when we watch other people's relationships - learning from both their successes and their failures and the lessons we can take away from it. We certainly have a challenge ahead of us with him uprooting is entire life and moving 8,000 miles away from everything that he's ever known, and me having lived with no one other than my cat for the past 14 years. But I look forward to the days where we can do the fun things like all the stuff I don't do now because I'd have to do them by myself (I'd love to take a cooking class), or all the mundane things that I get tired of doing by myself (grocery shopping). I know that we have our skeptics out there - that we're both too set in our ways and there are too many cultural differences that will be too much of a battle. And those skeptics are sometimes none too shy in voicing their thoughts. But all we can do is plug our way through the hard times, keep the lines of communication as open as we possibly can, and remember all of the struggling we've had to do to even get to that point. A wise woman that I admire told me recently "through adversity comes strength." I'm holding her to that one because we've already had more than our fair share of adversity. I can only hope that means that once we finally get this thing where we want it to be, we will be the most rock-solid couple you've ever met and it will never become "It's complicated."