Prison Love

I wrote this back in high school. It’s one of my favorite even if things have changed. It was a big lesson to learn. I and this dude (not saying names) wrote each other for about four years and during those four years, I got to meet his mother and father and even his sister. In 2016 I and he started to fall apart and we started to change and see thing different, or at least I did. We tried to fix it but when thing seemed to get better two females got a hold of me and told me what he was telling them which was the same exact thing he was saying to me so I stop writing and he kept on writing. He found out that I knew about the other females so he wrote and apologized and to tell me he really loved me and what not… but I was hurt and I didn't want to hear it so I stop writing and ever since then I haven't heard from him.

Prison relationships are hard and sometimes they don’t work out. Love can go even further than just the typical relationship hugging and kiss and see each other every day hanging out or just not do anything but chill. Prison love is something way different you don’t hug you don’t kiss and you can only talk on the phone for less than 20 minutes a letter that takes one to three weeks to get to the letter destination.

I believe in prison love.

A letter every two weeks and phone call twice a day for 20 minutes isn't enough. Being in love with an inmate isn't easy. This guy and I went for about seven months without talking on the phone since he was still working on going back out to general population. It was hard because a letter was always on how he felt that day how sad he was and how he missed me and I always ended up getting that letter two weeks later when he feeling way different. Our love has gotten stronger each day that goes by yes we don't hug or kiss or go out to the movies but just the fact that we don’t do all that makes our bond even stronger. Our love isn't just hard because he's in prison it's hard also with 1,728.8 miles in between us. I can't just hop in the car drive for one to two hours to go see him on visitation day, it's hard for me as much as it is for him. I'm trying to save up for a car and an apartment so when he comes home we have what we need without asking anyone for help but how do I save up when I have to put money on the phone and on his commissary, as hard as it is on me so it is on him when he's trying to stay out of trouble when the guards in there harassing him and not letting him do his time in peace. We both have to be strong for us to keep our love alive even if it's a prison love.

I have learned a lot from this experience in being in a relationship with an inmate because it not easy we can't just text and hang out after school. Our relationship isn't like any normal relationship. Nothing more than to just counting with a letter and 20-minute phone call that is better than having no communication. I believe in prison and I believe it is possible to keep the love alive even with the short communication.