I'm currently in the first relationship I've ever been in. Maybe I would have found a boyfriend much earlier if it were generally easier than it is for guys to find other guys to date. We've been seeing each other for just under a month now. In many ways, it's just like the relationship I've always wanted and envisioned for myself. So it hasn't felt really strange or anything; it feels totally normal. Like I said, we've only been seeing each other for a few weeks, but the relationship has been moving pretty fast in that time. There are many aspects of being in a relationship that are pretty much just as I imagined them being, but there are some other feelings I've been having that I didn't anticipate. For example, we both have busy work and school schedules, so we try to see each other as often as possible, but that's only on weekends, including Friday, with a few times I've skipped classes to go see him during the week, too. His house is also about an hour drive for me. And it's just that the time away has been bothering me a lot more than I expected it would. I know that with my living arrangement (college dorm), it really wouldn't be possible to see a boyfriend more than just on weekend more or less, while we could just text or chat online the rest of the time. But it just doesn't even come close to cutting it for me.
I'm quite excited for the future of this relationship though. He currently lives in his parents' house, which isn't the ideal location for us to spend time together not only for the compromised privacy but also because his parents will get cranky if I spend too much time there, or any nights there. So he's been looking at moving out and getting some sort of apartment, which would be super amazing because even if I don't move in right away (and I'm graduating in May, so if this continues to go well, I'd like to move in by then at the absolute latest), I'd at least be looking forward to spending more time with him than our schedules currently permit. And eventually I would like to move in, perhaps sooner rather than later. We've already slept together: not this past weekend but the one before. He works at a hotel and had a couple shifts scheduled close together, so he just got a room, and I came along, and it was amazing. I really wish we could do that more often, every night even.