Perspective

I think it's time to let you know about some of the real life plans and facts. We want to do this but you might wonder "how?", which is normal, considering the fact that he is American and I am Romanian. And as awesome as we are, we are still mere human beings.

The thing is that during all this time we really have thought about it. We will absolutely live together in Romania or wherever we will be and we will try not to kill each other. Nah, we're good together, but we're both very stubborn so sometimes that makes us clash. The making up is always fabulous though. So, anyway, as I was saying, we are planning to live together. The job part - well, since he returned to the States, Brett already had two job offers coming from Romanian people. The shitty part was that they were paid to Romanian standards (which are significantly low compared to the American ones when it comes to wages and paychecks) and he needed to make money to live there and to save for coming back, so it kind of was out of the question to spend time working for a Romanian wage while still living in the States. This is why we decided to make this blog. With your help, and with what he's going to make extra it's impossible not to work.

It was crazy because one day I decided to get him started on a Romanian job hunting site. It was purely curiosity, spontaneity and me being stubborn again. And lo and behold the very same day he got a pretty nice job offer, and those people were fucking ready to hire him, he just simply did not have the money to get his ticket and just come...they made it clear that it would be kind of illegal, not to mention kinda nuts to pay him a Romanian salary while he was still living in America. The second chance was with my ex boss. He was ready to offer him a job too, but made it clear that he cannot possibly pay him more than he would pay a Romanian person just because he lives there.

So it's pretty ironic. And quite shitty, if you think about it. He is struggling with work there and he is being offered nice jobs here but he just doesn't have the means to come here right now. Oh, I forgot to mention that they didn't even have a problem with him not speaking the language. Which is another thing, I would love to teach him Romanian. It is kind of hard doing it online though. It is always just easier if you are surrounded by it and you get to hear it all the time. He knows the important things though, he knows how to say "hi" and ask for a beer, so he would be just fine :)

I am not worried about him coming here and maybe at first not having work. Once he is here and we're settled down I'm pretty sure we can handle everything. And I really do not think that I am being unrealistic, precisely because we are so damn stubborn and we have overcome a lot of hard stuff since we met. To me it's like this: we are a team. It's kind of hard to see our relationship through that perspective right now because we are so far away from one another, but once we will be close to each other it will turn into that - a team. And trust me, my team always wins.