too good to be true
My boyfriend and I were together since January 3, 2020. I was so excited to start a new relationship because I haven't had one in 10 years, and he was very promising. We are both teachers in China. In the middle of January we had our Chinese New Year holiday where we had our break for 3 weeks. We already made separate plans for the holiday (this was all before starting the relationship). However, we thought it would be fun to meet up in Vietnam on the last week. After 2 weeks of traveling solo around Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, I was so excited to reunite with him. We had a fairy tale experience taking a cruise on Halong Bay and had a romantic getaway to Da Nang. This was during the time China was in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak. Our school kept pushing back its start date, and the government talked about strict quarantine rules for travelers coming back into the country. We didn't know what our next step should be, but we also knew we didn't want to deal with the chaos going on in China, so we both decided to travel to Bangkok and take things day by day. What we thought would be a week in Bangkok, ended up being 40 days. The total time span of our relationship was 2 months, and for half of that we ended up living together unplanned. In Bangkok we were both unaware of the whole circumstance, adjusting to this new lifestyle of abnormalcy, while still getting to know one another's strengths and flaws. In Vietnam we were in the "honeymoon phase." But that feeling quickly disappeared. In Bangkok we talked about how our relationship would still be solid if things were just normal. I'm usually someone who is extreme and impulsive, therefore I fall in love too easily. When I first started off this relationship I kept all this in mind and dove into it with a mindful heart. I wanted to take things slowly to see whether or not we were meant to be and if this is true love. However, due to the COVID-19 outbreak everything shot at me all at once, and I didn't have time to ask myself these questions. I decided to come back home to the U.S. and stay with my parents. I decided to leave before countries started shutting down borders. He decided to remain in Thailand. As of now we are broken up but still keep in contact.