We met online in 2007 while I was learning English and he was learning French, we stayed pen pal for a while and became friends. We kept in touch during the following five years and in 2012 our friendship started looking a lot like a romance. He visited me in Paris. He was supposed to leave after two weeks but stayed three months after which we visited London and Dublin and then I left with him for the USA for another three months. Since that we have been visiting each other back and forth.