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As I mentioned before, a mere eight months into dating I got a job offer across the country. The reason I even applied for said job was due to the influence of Mr. Cannon. You might recall that Mr. Cannon had just returned from a year of travel when we started dating. His traveling had started with a job at the Grand Tetons National Park. Before I met him, the idea of working in a national park had never crossed my mind. However, it had always been a dream of mine to see the Grand Canyon. With the idea that I could not only see the Grand Canyon but live at the Grand Canyon, I started searching for accounting jobs in the area. Luckily there were a few listed, so I applied and waited to hear something. After some phone interviews, I found out I was hired!
While this was great news for fresh-outta-college-into-the-crappy-job-market me, it was confusing for Mr. Cannon and me as a couple. We hadn’t even been together for a year yet. Should I ask him to come with me? Did he even want to come with me? We were having a lot of fun together and had declared our love for one another, but were we ready for the massive step of moving cross country together?
We talked about it and he admitted that he really wanted to come, but was worried that I didn’t want him to come! Basically we wanted the same thing but didn’t want to seem needy or pushy or otherwise freak the other person out. We discussed what we hoped would happen and what we would do if things didn’t work out between us as we hoped. Feeling confident that we were ready to make the journey together, we got everything (which amounted to pretty much nothing), packed into Mr. Cannon’s Ford Taurus, and road-tripped to the Grand Canyon, where our love continued to grow. All of our very sensible concerns ended up being for nothing, but I am glad that we were both thoughtful and mature about our decision to move so far together for our relationship.
Us at the Grand Canyon
Have you ever taken a big chance on your relationship?
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My now-fiance and I did the exact same thing! We’d been together about 4 months when I got a job in Oregon (we lived in Wisconsin). As the time to leave got closer we discussed plans and had practically the same type of conversation. My fiance finished his degree in Wisconsin while I moved out to Oregon and he joined me before the end of last year. He proposed shortly after we were both safe and sound in our new home!
I packed up and left my kick-ass accounting job at an amazing company and moved cross country after dating long distance for only 4 months. We had met in HS, went our separate ways and reconnected years later on FB. All I have to say is moving was the best decision I ever made. We will be married in 4.5 months, I have a great job and wake up every morning with the love of my life, my best friend!
Aww, what a big decision that worked out so well! It was smart to discuss everything beforehand, including the not so pleasant if-it-doesn’t-work-out details. So glad they weren’t needed!
Sometimes a big step really solidifies a relationship, and it sounds like it was a great decision for the Cannons!
My cousin moved from Ohio to Florida after knowing her boyfriend for a few months. They had the same conversation (or lack thereof) before she moved. Then she moved from Florida to California with him (this is where they finally got engaged). Now she lives in Virginia with her husband and three kids.
I moved to CT and now I’m moving to CO with my boyfriend. We’ve been dating 4 1/2 years,
That’s what I love about Wedding Bee…it’s so reassuring to hear about other couples who took similarly unconventional paths, just when you’re starting to think you were the only ones who did it that way! 
I am a Canadian who was living abroad in New Zealand for a year when I met my FH, and six (blissful) months after we met I got offered a full ride to do my PhD at my dream school on the other side of the world. Even though it was quite early on, we both already knew that what we had was something pretty significant and we simply didn’t want to end it, so we had some huge decisions to make together. He had just begun a good career of his own (one that he wouldn’t be able to do abroad), but, for us, a long distance relationship between NZ and the UK for 3+ years just wasn’t realistic… so it was a matter of one of us making a career sacrifice for the other. So here we were, less than a year together, having to lay all of our cards on the table and discuss in frank detail the future we wanted for ourselves, and the role we wanted each other to play in that. Heavy stuff, but we realised through that process that we were even more compatible than we even suspected, and that we were able to navigate big life decisions together. It didn’t happen overnight, but in the end, we realised that my opportunity was such a once-in-a-lifetime thing that it would be crazy to pass up, and by coming with me he would be able to fulfill some of his travelling dreams at the same time… but most importantly, I think, we realised that we wanted to spend our lives together. :) Flash forward to now, and we are rather insanely planning our trans-continental wedding while I simultaneously try to write a Phd…hopefully our stellar teamwork/decision-making powers will once again help us pull this off!
Great post
Such a monumental decision! I’m glad you two had such open communications and that all worked out in the end.
sounds like the risk paid off perfectly for you two!
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Mrs. Cannon, Toledo, OH Age and Occupation: 27, Financial Analyst Fiance's Age and Occupation: 28, Assembler Engagement Date: February 28, 2011 Wedding Date: September 2011 Venue: Epworth UMC & Ward Pavilion About Me: I'm the curious combination of being a go-with-the-flow, laid back, obsessive planner. I try desperately to stay as busy as possible at all times (and am succeeding big time right now!) My biggest loves in life are Law & Order: SVU, Community (the show, not the concept, although I like that, too), ice cream, white cheddar popcorn, beer, hiking, knitting, decorating, writing, being outside, spending time with friends and family and musical theater. Mr. Cannon is pretty sweet, too. We've had a lot of fun traveling and having adventures all over the country, but have finally moved back near our hometown to settle down. We're planning a low-key, colorful, fun wedding and an awesome-to-the-max reception.
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