A Fairy Tale?

I'm in a relationship that most of you won't understand. One of you knows exactly what we go through, but the rest of you are just as clueless about my relationship as I am about yours. I don't say that to be rude. It's true. I don't know your relationship and I doubt you know mine.

Some of you that happen upon here understand to a degree. Maybe you're in a long distance relationship while one (or both) of you is at college. Perhaps you're dating the military, too. Even if you're simply dating a boy some of this will make sense.

Our relationship is ours. You only hear and read what I want you to. You don't have the full picture. I once got "yelled" at about my relationship. It was through text message and I made the decision that not responding was my best option. She only knew my relationship through Facebook. Nothing that I had ever told her.

This lovely gal was going on about how I thought I had the best relationship ever and that I was just living my fairy tale life, but that I really had no idea what a real relationship is and the two of us were never going to make it because I was incredibly naive. It went on like this for some time.

Please note that this was while the Marine was at boot camp. Last I checked, boot camp is nothing like a fairy tale. . . What do I know?

We may not be living a fairy tale exactly, but we do choose to make the most out of everyday. We may not know everything about relationships, but we're learning. We are far from perfect and that's just the way we like it. We fight until we're blue in the face some days. Well I'm blue, at least. He's just quiet.

Through all of that, we love each other. I am proud of my Marine and I wouldn't trade a day of this crazy, hectic life with my frustrating, yet fascinating, Marine for a simple, predictable day with an accountant. He is my fairy tale.

I mean come on. He's like a Marine Burrito..