Surprising Your Long-Distance Spouse (Subtitle: Lying Liars Telling Lies)

Posted by on May 9, 2018 in Articles, Long Distance Marriage, Travel

Surprising Your Long-Distance Spouse (Subtitle: Lying Liars Telling Lies)

We both surprised each other in the last year, our first year as a married couple.

I’m not bragging, but I’m pretty sure my surprise was better.

Last November, I was in Atlanta for a conference, and caught a cheap flight: Atlanta-Boston-Dublin-Glasgow, and then back to D.C. about six days later. I kept the surprise for weeks, even with J. asking in the loudest stage whisper ever during an evening facetime if “Mark knew you were coming.” I hardly ever keep surprises. But I DID.  I did it. And it was worth it.

I told exactly one lie during my travel: That I was home safely when I was really sitting in Boston waiting for my flight to Dublin. I facetimed Mark when I was leaving Atlanta and said I was getting on the road (true) and texted him when I landed in Glasgow and told him I’d just woken up (also true).

I was just texting from across the street. The fact that he works at the airport is really handy. And that I’m friends with some of his colleagues, who helped me get into the building.

THIS FACE

 

THE SHOCK. He spent a good day being completely quiet, which is rare.

In return, Mark surprised me in April, for our first anniversary. I had just been in Scotland in March, and Mark had concocted a story involving work travel to D.C. in April, and I was going to meet him up north.

Unlike Glasgow and its international airport, I don’t live anywhere close to D.C. and its cheap airport, and jet lag makes for a really difficult drive south when you’ve been traveling all day already.  Through the help of a bunch of wonderful friends, one of whom actually drove from Blacksburg to D.C. AND BACK in a day to pick Mark up at Dulles, he walked in during a Saturday brunch a mile from my house (there’s a video of this too, but I don’t have it, so I’m going to have to get it).

I called him a Lying Liar about fourteen times because unlike my easier surprise, he had to set up a bunch of roadblocks to get me. And he did. And we got to spend our first anniversary together, in Blacksburg and Alexandria.

We may not be able to always spend our anniversaries together, but the first one was important. And surprising each other was too much fun. I don’t know if we’ll ever get the chance to do it again (especially now that we’re tracking each other’s locations on the iPhones, heh) but it was worth it.

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