004 | The Wait（Modern Love Bonus Episode）

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004 | The Wait（Modern Love Bonus Episode）

A couple of weeks ago on the podcast, actor Taissa Farmiga read Hannah Selinger's story, "Friends Without Benefits."  We asked you for your stories about waiting for love and you answered — from all over the world.

Let's start with Courtney from Baltimore.

I have spent 4 years waiting in the room next to my housemate for him to realize that he loves me or me to realize that he doesn’t. Every weekend we go out together, sleep with someone else, and call each other in the morning to get breakfast. I am moving away in a week and a half and even that isn’t enough for me to forget caution and tell him that I love him. He’s my best friend. He’s had ample chance to say something if there was something to say. But, then again, so have I.

So, Courtney is about to move. Many of you told us that moving was the big event that made you take that leap of faith — for better, or for worse. Lucas from Gold Coast, Australia, shared this story.

There was a girl I really clicked with, we were really good friends. But, we never defined our friendship, and I had made plans to go live overseas for a couple of years. I thought about just giving up my whole time overseas and moving back to Australia to be closer to her and work out where we were at. But I didn’t hear from her for a while, I kind of moved on with my life. And eventually I actually found the woman who is now my wife, while living overseas. And the girl from back home, she emailed me, and said, "I’m thinking of you.” And I wrote back and said, “Listen, I’m in this new relationship." And I never heard from her again. And I always wonder whether what to me was an undefined relationship to her was something more.

I hear something in Lucas' voice there--all the unknown possibilities crowding into the spaces between his words. That's the overwhelming power of the human imagination: we can imagine so many possible outcomes if we act and that can be paralyzing. And even when we do take that leap of faith, we're still looking back over our shoulders wondering all the things that might have been. But the truth is, whether we wait or we leap into love, out of all the infinite possibilities, our lives follow only one path — even if it leads somewhere we never imagined, such as Uppsala, Sweden. Erin sent us her story.

I waited for love for a few years. I met someone while I was studying abroad. Between me here, and then I moved back to the States and he followed me. And then, when we split up, it was kind of, where are we, will we ever see each other? And so I waited for 2 years and then I moved to Sweden last year for him. But he had moved on. I don't regret the move, ever. I fell in love with him, and though that didn't work, I fell in love with this place. And today, I still live in Sweden, I teach elementary school. Overwhelmingly, I really like my life here, and I am thankful that he and the relationship that we did have prompted me to take this leap and to live here and move my live in a direction that I never saw, or never could have fathomed before.

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