Its been a long time

slandgrave

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So I've been away from the TP for over two years now. I guess I'm back now and wanted to say hello to everyone again!

I used to do a lot of customs, and I've even built Ponyville miniature villages as a giant playset for my daughters but they don't have it anymore.

I still have my collection, or our collection so to speak. As I have two little girls, my children, I'm saving it for, if they ever get to come home again.

So there used to be a time when I believed in true love and in soul mates. I was so sure that one day I'd meet this wonderful man who would sweep me off my feet and we'd live happily ever after.

Real life hasn't provided me that, would it be possible for those of you who found true love to share your stories with me? I could use some hope.
 
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Hi there, and welcome back to the forum! :winkpony: I only joined in February this year, so I've never met you before. But now you've met me! :LOL:

You asked for personal love stories, so here's mine...

I never had boyfriends when I was in school. I was always picked on by guys, and the ones that I had crushes on didn't want to get involved with me, not even the ones who I knew liked me back... Then in 7th grade I had a bad experience. I was trying to be with a boy in 6th grade, which was apparently an enormous faux pas. The boys in my class got their friends together, and then at least 20 guys came after me in front of the classrooms one break, pushed me against the wall and shoved me down on the floor with the bags, laughing and jeering the entire time. Then when I told the younger boy I didn't want to be with him after this, he turned around and started telling degrading lies about me to the other boys behind my back, and insulting me to my face whenever I saw him.

From there I went to a girls-only high school, so for years I never had contact with the opposite sex. I had crushes on a few of the girls in my class, and discovered that I may be a little bisexual, but I never acted on those feelings because I was still more attracted to guys. For a long time, I turned to fictional couples to fill my relationship needs, through reading, writing and roleplaying. By the time I was in my late teens to early twenties, I was desperately lonely. I met or was introduced to a few different guys, but they didn't take any interest in me. I thought I'd never find anyone who'd ever love me. I felt like I was defective and nobody wanted me.

Then when I was 21, I went with my best friend to a manga/anime society meeting at her university. Like always, I asked her about the guys who'd be there, and she listed a few names. I remember thinking to myself, "Zander, I like that name... maybe I'll like him, maybe he'll be cute." Then when we got there and he walked in the room, he was the exact opposite of what I'd imagined. I pushed the earlier thought aside and carried on. I noticed that he was very quiet and he sat in the corner behind everyone else, and I thought, "he's introverted like me, I could be friends with this guy." Then at one point everyone had to go fetch something, leaving the two of us alone in the room together. So we talked, and he was very restrained and stared at his feet a lot, but he was nice to me, he complimented me, and I told him he was sweet. He told me thank you, but that my perceptions were "misguided".

I thought that was the end of it. But little did I know the confusion that went on behind the scenes after that. He'd apparently asked my best friend if I was seeing someone... and my friend, who is a lesbian, somehow gave him the idea that I was a lesbian too. Then a few days later he discovered that I was in fact NOT a lesbian, and asked her to give him my phone number. Eventually I got a text from her that said he wanted to get in contact with me, and asking if that was alright. Obviously I said yes. Then the two of us began texting each other back and forth for a while, discussing games and music, and we found that we had a lot in common. Then 4 days after we met, he decided I HAD to play this one game, so he wanted to know if he could come by and lend it to me. I said it was fine. Then he asked his friend to help him get directions to my house, which led to him getting lost in the backstreets of my neighbourhood... Finally he arrived, but my mother and grandmother were too embarrassed by the messy state of the flat to let him inside, so I had to go stand outside in the parking area with him.

I talked to him for hours, about life, family and hobbies, and the longer we chatted, the more I felt myself falling for him. I remember sitting in the front seat of his car while he sat on the grass, and I looked at him and just wanted to go sit in his lap. We talked until it got dark. Then before he left, he hugged me, and just held me there, not wanting to let go... and he said "I don't know why, but this feels right". I dropped very blatant hints that I wanted to date him, but he didn't pick up on any of them... Then after he left, we continued texting each other, and I made another very obvious "I really wouldn't mind going out with you sometime" comment. He then started talking about how if I was with him it would have to be exclusive, and he is very possessive, and I had to know what I was getting into blah blah blah... I said yes, obviously.

That was back in 2007, and we're still happily together, over 6 and a half years later. :ponylove: Not yet married or living together, but eventually I hope we'll be.

I only got back into MLP this year, and I was embarrassed and afraid to tell him at first, thinking he'd find it childish. But he was totally accepting of it. He watches FiM with me even though he doesn't like it that much (Applejack is his spirit animal, and he likes Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie), and he supports and feeds my pony addiction. I'm truly the luckiest girl ever.
 
....I have found my soul mate, my best friend, practically a male version of myself~

We have so much in common, from looking alike, his name is my name spelt backwards, our personalities are almost identical, our upbringings are identical and our Birthdays are 5 days apart~

These things are all coincidence yes but our bond is something I've never felt before and never expected to have~

We met unexpectedly, interacted for a bit and were pretty much just "random people with little interest lumped together just because".

Some months later our paths were lumped together again... we're part of group that's like family~ so he and I figured we should start talking to each other more to get along.

.....we fell in love 4 months later... after we got to know each other quite a bit~ it was a mutual love, both of us scared to admit it.
....scared of being rejected~

slowly yet surely, we revealed it to each other... he wanted to hear it from me, first~

Best part is, he's into ponies~ and enjoys receiving gift customs from me. :smilepony:
 
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