Hi Future Boyfriend,

I am pretty sure I haven't met you yet but I think about you often. I hope you are doing fine and that you will find your way to me. When you do, I hope you will stay for a while. No, I hope you don't ever leave.

We will have an imperfect relationship. I will not always be at my best and we will probably fight a lot but I will not give up on you easily so I hope you'd be more patient with me, too. Yes, patience. You need a lot of those because I can be stubborn sometimes and I apologize in advance. You can be stubborn, too. I think it's cute.

I don't expect you to be perfect because that's something I will never be either. I just want you to be the man who I can share adventures and stories with. I promise I will be that woman, too.

I can't wait to spend good days with you! One day, we will remember how we met and say that we didn't see this relationship coming but the world has always known we would be together. We will go on road trips. I plan to eat chocolate chip cookies and ice cream while I tell stories about anything I could think of so I hope you're cool with the driving part. We will watch horror movies on Friday night and make midnight snacks for 2. I will tell you about my day and listen to you whine about your stupid boss.

I will hug you every chance I get. You will hold my hand. We will spend time with my friends and they will think you're funny. You will play with my dogs and love them as much as I do. We will watch movies and I will keep the movie tickets because that's what I do.

When I am having one of those days, you will understand. When you are having a bad day, I will sit beside you and we will share comfortable silence until you are ready to talk about it. We will fight and then patch things up because we would realize we can't lose each other.

I hope you're as excited as I am. I hope you're looking for me, too.  Thinking about meeting you makes the future less scary. I will see you soon! For the meantime, take care of yourself while I'm not there yet.

Love Always,

Your Future Girlfriend

"One day, years from now I will be sitting with my daughter and she will ask me about the one that got away and I am sure you are the man I will tell her about. The man with expressive eyes and devilish smile. I will tell her about how you looked at me as if I was the only girl in the room and how you held my hand so protectively when we walk on the main road while it was pouring. How you watched me eat and not finish food I buy on the streets. How you hugged me when we sleep and pulled my head up from your chest in the middle of the night to kiss me. I will tell her about our morning conversations and how you made my day. She will ask where you are and why we didn't end up together. I will tell her that the timing wasn't right and that you had to choose. I will let her know that you didn't choose me not because you never loved me but because you followed your heart and the heart doesn't always have to go with what it wants, sometimes it has to go with what it deserves. I will tell her that you chose the woman in your arms right now because she understands and knows you better than I do. And I will tell her you made the right choice because I would just have ruined everything not because I didn't love you but because I was naive and selfish for I loved you too much. I will tell her that I love his father but in my next life, I will look for you and never let you go again."

She kept stirring her coffee that she'd been drinking for over an hour, "It never stops hurting, does it?" she said and smiled as if she had to to conceal the truth that she was falling apart at that very moment.

"What?" he asked even if he knew exactly what she was talking about.

She put down the spoon and diverted her gaze to the cars passing by the cafe, "Knowing they could have had you, but they chose someone else."

He looked at the traffic light, unconsciously waiting until the light turns red. He smiled when it did, "Yeah, it never does," he finally spoke, "I guess it never stops."

Surprised with what he said, "Ha! Did you just agree with me?" she sounded excited. "Are you in love? Spill!" she teased him.

He looked her in the eye, "Always have, probably always will."