Currently on my way to the airport and extremely excited, nervous, stressed, all the emotions. Thought I'd write here as a bit of catharsis and share our story.

I was a regular streamer on twitch.tv a few years ago, my then-future SO a lurker, just watching the streams without much interaction. Towards the point where I stopped she engaged more, I had a fair few regular viewers so she didn't really stand out to me at the time, another friend to the stream as everyone else was.

After I stopped streaming I eventually got a message from her on a game we both played asking if I was the same Psycho she knew from the stream. She was just making sure I was alright, we talked for a while and she gave me her number so we could talk more.

We talked daily, pretty much for the next 2-3 years. Broke down the barriers slowly, pictures, and then voice chat, and then video chat. Mostly for her because my voice and face had been on twitch for years already, she was quite shy at first.

We built a relationship on a foundation of honesty and open communication, 2 things that are very important to me but came quite difficult for her because of a family where habitual lying was both normal and necessary to get by, but we got there, slowly and with many mistakes and arguments along the way, each of which we used to make our relationship stronger.

Fast forward to August 2018 where I visited her for 2 weeks, the most amazing 2 weeks of my life. Leaving again was the hardest thing I had to do and we both knew the relationship was going to get so much harder now that we knew what we were missing.

So I made a decision. Being from the UK - Brexit loomed. The uncertainty meant it was now or never, so I made arrangements to leave the following year and not come back again. And that's where I am now, on my way to the airport to spend the rest of my days with the love of my life.

We won't be moving in together immediately but a 15 minute walk is basically in the same room compared to the 3 hour flight that separates us now. I am ecstatic, I hope I can look back on today some time in the future as the day that made me who I am and changed my life forever, for the better.

I hope you all get to feel what I do right now, some day. I know how hard LDRs are, we've been through it all in the last 3 years, but stay strong. Some day you'll be the one on the way to the airport, or the one eagerly waiting for the love of your life to arrive.

I've got a few hours before my flight so, AMA.