Help Me Meet the Love of My Life for the First Time

Hi, my name is Phillip and I’m reaching out with the biggest hope in my heart: to finally meet the woman I’ve loved for most of my life — in person, for the very first time.

This story isn’t new. It’s a love story that began years ago, when we were just young adults who met online. We would text and talk every single night — falling asleep on the phone, just listening to each other breathe. Even back then, I knew I had found someone rare. Someone who felt like home.

But being young, with distance, parents, and life in the way... we never got the chance to meet. Eventually, the space between us grew too heavy, and we drifted apart. Years passed. She met someone else. Got married. I respected her boundaries, but we would talk now and then — brief messages, birthday wishes, little check-ins… the kind you send when someone still lives in your heart.

What I didn’t know then was that she was living in a deeply abusive marriage for nearly two decades. When she finally found the strength to leave, we began talking again — and it felt like no time had passed. Only now, it was different.

Now, there was nothing in the way.

She told me she had never stopped loving me. That I had always been the one. That she regretted everything that kept us apart — and wished she had waited.