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I thought this week I was going to write the post I’ve been waiting to write for 221 days. I though last Monday we were going to have our visa approved and I was going to be thrilled to announce that I was going to be reunited with Mr. Poodle in just a week. Well, that is not happening, and we won’t be reunited in a week.

Maybe my expectations were too high, but there was a no reason to get any answer but an approval, and even though we were not rejected, after the interview, I felt like we were.

Trust me, I’ve done major research about every aspect of what they ask during the visa interview, so I was pretty confident about it. But to my surprise, I got the answer I was not ready to hear: we have to keep waiting, waiting to know if we get approved (in my head I was screaming at him, saying, “Are you kidding me???” Is 221 days of waiting not long enough or something?).

I was so frustrated, sad, mad, and I felt like my heart was breaking, but I kept my head up, took a deep breath, smiled, and ask him about how they’ll contact me. Later, when I was home, I had to let everything out and I broke to tears. I felt our wedding plans were being trashed away by an Immigration Officer, and more than ever I wished I knew how to build a machine to teleport myself into Mr. Poodle’s arms.

So, yeah… after hours feeling like it was the end of the world, I realized how much of a baby I was because:

• Yes, this adds some extra weeks on to our long awaited reunion.
• Yes, it’s going to take longer to move to CA.
• Yes, I will need to put some of my DIY projects on hold.
• Yes, I probably wont see Mr. Poodle as soon as we thought I would. But, hey! I will be sharing the rest of my life with him, so every single tear of frustration over this process is so worth it if at the end I’ll walk down the aisle to the man of my dreams, right?

Each little bump in the road makes me appreciate Mr. Poodle more and more, and I know I will never take him, our love, or our relationship for granted because we have being fighting to be together for so long. And every single time things got tough, he was my rock. He always gave me the energy to raise my head up again, to look beyond the gray cloud, and to realize we have a wonderful future ahead of us. Our love keeps growing, and all of this will just make us and our relationship stronger.

We had everything so well planned, that it was a timing masterpiece. But I now I need to let it go, relax, and focus on the half-full glass. Sometimes in timing out a wedding, things don’t go as planned.

Have you faced a sudden change in your wedding timeline? What have you done to keep a positive attitude about it all?