Our First Married Valentine's Day!
... and we're 6 hours apart! Alas.
As an actor, working almost always equals travel. I'm currently on a contract in Kentucky, and my husband (who works a more normal job) is back at home in NC with our cat (who's my real Valentine, let's be honest).
It's tough to be apart for weeks at a time, but we both agree that I should take as many of these opportunities as I can now. Someday, we'll have kids and more responsibilities to tie us down, so for now I'm performing as much as I can and working on building a career that's more locally sustainable.
We've also never made a big deal out of Valentine's Day - our dating anniversary is February 1st, and we quickly found that it was much easier to do a fancy date night for our anniversary and then just stay in on V-Day! I'll miss our traditional Chinese takeout and pajamas, but we made sure to do that before I left town!
Anyone else have a long-distance Valentine this year?
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