There are a few types of love in the world. There’s the type that is expressed on Valentines Day with long-stemmed red roses and a decadent box of chocolate-covered strawberries. There’s the love when two good friends recognize they’re so gosh-darn compatible they might as well collaborate on happily-ever-after together.
 
And then there’s the type of love when two people meet and automatically come together as if they’ve known each other for all time.
 
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This sort of immediate commitment is rarely seen, but whether we observe this encounter or experience it for ourselves, it’s straight-up awesome. My closest friend just got married in Sea Island, Georgia after a long-distance courtship of four years while living on opposite coasts. She epitomizes the idea that you may need to sacrifice for your partner once you've found the one for you! If you’re wondering how to find love this February, read on for the lesson my best friend taught me about finding love.
 
Three years ago, my best friend (and bona fide rock star) met her now husband. Their story is so exceptionally sweet and rare that it got me thinking, how did these two people find love so easily? The answer is simple - ironically, neither person was consumed with how to find love, rather they focused on living their life in the same manner they hoped their significant other would choose to live.  Before meeting each other (followed by long-distance dating and then tying the knot), Carter and Ellison Glenn embodied the idea of being like the person they hoped to meet.
 
It gives me chills to think about their courtship - his honest pursuit of her, and her overjoyed reciprocation. Meeting at an all girls’ summer camp wasn’t ideal, but it was a sweet place where the fabric of their relationship began to knit - like their heartstrings delicately intertwined and their hands tightly held. Limited to early morning runs (before campers woke at sunrise) and late evenings patrolling the campgrounds, Carter and Ellison valued their short amount of time spent together. When their first summer together ended, the reality set in of a long-distance relationship on opposite coasts for four years.
 
 
Driven by the happiness that comes after you find love, this pair continued to thrive. He went back to school in Charleston and she returned to her small college in Santa Barbara. Google Hangouts became Friday night dates and their lifestyle shifted around each other’s needs and schedules.
 
What have I learned from my close girlfriend, loved by so many? To find love you must first live like the type of person you want to be with and then commit wholeheartedly to that individual when you find him or her. Maybe it does take time and effort and an inconvenient lifestyle, but if love is the one special gift we have to receive in this lifetime, then why don’t we cherish it as much as possible? As I sit down and outline the path taken to Carter & Ellison’s happily-ever-after, I realize it was also their full throttle, awe-inspiring commitment to each other, and their ability to enjoy this commitment that successfully took these two to the chapel.
 
I strongly believe that everyone is doing his or her best (at whatever it may be). My takeaway from their story, homies, is to live your life how you would want your significant other to live and be like the person you’d hope to meet. Keep doing your best and once you find that rockin’ dude or dudette, take care of them, commit to the special bond you share, and just keep doin’ you to find love.
 
Below are some pictures from Carter and Ellison’s kickass love story in Sea Island, Georgia and here is a video of their beautiful wedding weekend. I hope you enjoy!!
 
 
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