Love Wins.
“Love wins”. We have all heard this slogan before, right? Here I am to give you a real-time testimony on how that can look like.
This is how me, and the man I can happy refer to as the big love of my life, met. From two totally different background, cultures and even countries but yet so similar. Get cozy and let me bring you back.
It was by chance: Me, Lucas, got invited by my friend Josh to join him and his friends to a party. It was after the covid restriction just had eased in Madrid and you could touch the excitement in the air of people finally getting back to normality. I was single, in my early twenties, and completely new in a big city. My feelings where mixed, as a gay man growing up in a conservative christian family on the country-side of southern Sweden, I was beyond stocked to now live a life on my own conditions. Away from the resentment of my family. On the other hand I was frightened. Frightened for the unknown. How would this new life look like? Would I finally find perfect peace after years of struggling with my identity as a gay man?
And then there was Burak, Turkish born boy living in The Netherlands. Also he coming from a world where resenting who you truly are had been a battle, similar to mine. Here is where it gets tricky, one would think. But from the moment they glanced eyes on each other, they knew they where meant to be together.
I met Burak on the 28th of September, 2021 at that party in Madrid. And we laughed and danced endlessly. Burak later returned to Madrid with a one-way ticket to explore more about what this could be, we both knew that this could be something very unique. After months of long-distance courtship, I came to settle with him in Amsterdam. And amids whatever worry about how the future for us would look like together, I look at Burak and think, “Whatever the unforeseeable future brings, I know I want him in in. No matter the cost.” We would love, meet new people, travel, laugh, and gather more air miles than any couple could have. And when the tides were rough, we squeezed each other tighter. From here on to forever and the everlasting knowing that, above all, “love wins”.
“Love wins”. We have all heard this slogan before, right? Here I am to give you a real-time testimony on how that can look like.
This is how me, and the man I can happy refer to as the big love of my life, met. From two totally different background, cultures and even countries but yet so similar. Get cozy and let me bring you back.
It was by chance: Me, Lucas, got invited by my friend Josh to join him and his friends to a party. It was after the covid restriction just had eased in Madrid and you could touch the excitement in the air of people finally getting back to normality. I was single, in my early twenties, and completely new in a big city. My feelings where mixed, as a gay man growing up in a conservative christian family on the country-side of southern Sweden, I was beyond stocked to now live a life on my own conditions. Away from the resentment of my family. On the other hand I was frightened. Frightened for the unknown. How would this new life look like? Would I finally find perfect peace after years of struggling with my identity as a gay man?
And then there was Burak, Turkish born boy living in The Netherlands. Also he coming from a world where resenting who you truly are had been a battle, similar to mine. Here is where it gets tricky, one would think. But from the moment they glanced eyes on each other, they knew they where meant to be together.
I met Burak on the 28th of September, 2021 at that party in Madrid. And we laughed and danced endlessly. Burak later returned to Madrid with a one-way ticket to explore more about what this could be, we both knew that this could be something very unique. After months of long-distance courtship, I came to settle with him in Amsterdam. And amids whatever worry about how the future for us would look like together, I look at Burak and think, “Whatever the unforeseeable future brings, I know I want him in in. No matter the cost.” We would love, meet new people, travel, laugh, and gather more air miles than any couple could have. And when the tides were rough, we squeezed each other tighter. From here on to forever and the everlasting knowing that, above all, “love wins”.
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