Dianalorena

I haven't updated this since 2019, and what a whirlwind the past years have been. 

Summer of 2018:

* Finally moved in with my Husband to our house in Hyde Park, in Austin

*We traveled together to a few places, spent time with his family. I thought things were great.

* We started having some issues, part of them dragged from the two years of long distance

January - May 2019 

* He had a meltdown and drunkenly drove us after a new year's party, I thought I was going to die. 

* We tried to work on things.I thought we were heading to therapy, he headed to Tinder instead 

* He felt guilty and told me he cheated, he left and I later found out he moved in with her right away

* He pretended to care but asked for a divorce  got engaged to her within 3 months of moving out. 

* He turned aggressive when I called him out on his lies and pretending. I saw his true colors, finally. 

* His family was left equally dumbfounded, I keep a good relationship with his twin brother to this day. 

*Heartbroken, I moved to my own apartment, kept working hard on my craft, building credit and a life

in a foreign country by myself. The rest of 2019 was a blur and it almost got me. I was so depressed. 

2020

I started to feel like I was almost out of the woods, and bam, global pandemic. But in March of 2020

I met the amazing man of my dreams. We took some COVID-conscious trips around Texas. We

moved in together in the summer, I met his family at Christmas. I finally had a healthy relationship. 

I've worked so hard to get myself where I want to be, and I am so grateful for the lessons learned. 

2021

I opened my first tattoo shop in March! It's so cool to have my own space. 

I made cool friends, I traveled to some U.S cities, adopted a new dog named Bruno. 

2022 

I got engaged in Costa Rica! It could feel like it's too soon, but I truly have never felt this way about anyone.
After I got my heart broken in 2019, I never thought I'd want to be married again, but he makes me

want to have everything I didn't have.  

Now my immigration interview has been assigned, and even though I have all the paperwork,

that I know the relationship was real, I am terrified. I haven't been able to fully grieve or move on,

so I truly cannot wait to have that chapter behind me, so I can focus on myself, my new relationship

and the life we've built together.