I never believed in soulmates until I met him; the connection between us was instant and uncanny and nothing like either of us had ever experienced. We understood each other perfectly, bonding over our respective traumas, our longstanding mental and physical health problems and our desperate attempts to treat them, our lengthy experiences with the ruthless healthcare and social systems, dismissive doctors and the people in our personal lives who just couldn't seek to wrap their heads around the fact that there were no easy solutions to our problems, and our common desire to leave all of this behind and be at peace. Despite the endless cycle of turmoil in our individual lives, the genuine care, support and affection that we had for each other was the only constant, and before long we fell madly in love with each other. We knew that our time in this world was limited, but we also knew that what we had was special and that we needed to be together, and for the next few months after meeting each other we put absolutely everything we had left in us into preparing for my arrival (as we lived on opposite sides of the world). The actual journey to get to him was hell due to my physical illnesses, the incessant noise, the cramped airplane seating, the multiple plane transfers, the (very strong) turbulence and the fact that I couldn't sleep the whole flight, and by the time I arrived in his country I was so exhausted and in so much pain that I felt like I was dreaming, but the second I first saw him actually standing right in front of me and felt his arms around me, it just completely solidified for me that no matter where we are, whenever I'm with him, I'm at home. We've been married for over 2.5 years now and he's the best "thing" that's ever happened to me.
Of course, there's a LOT more to the story; we went through absolute hell with the system (and we were even forced to be separated for some time because of it) and we ultimately sacrificed ourselves in order to be together, but as far as we're concerned, there was no other alternative. Life has been nothing short of sheer torture for the both of us – we're perfectly compatible together but not with our own bodies and definitely not with the world, and unfortunately love does not fix or change that and it would be unrealistic and naive to expect it to – but the love that we have for each other is immeasurable, indescribable and unbreakable, and we're in this together until we can finally get the hell off this planet and leave side-by-side.