There are approximately 8 billion people on earth. How easy is it then to meet the right one? Kenneth Karijord and Victor Sotberg talk about their journey in the news podcast “How you met”. – I didn’t believe in that. It’s such a cliché – something you see in films, says Sotberg about his first meeting with his partner Karijord. Before the two met, the love life of the popular YouTuber and presenter had been a rollercoaster, according to him. How do you actually succeed as a young couple in a long-term relationship? You will get good tips and advice further down in the matter. The splicer?❤️? – Before I met Kenneth, I was not emotionally present. I didn’t know if I should be with boys or girls. I was probably not a very good boyfriend at the time. But even if the feelings were “all over the place”, as Sotberg describes it himself, there were others in the family who believed. Namely Victor’s cousin, who was also Kenneth Karijord’s best friend. She thought the two should definitely meet, and after acting as “Kirsten’s wedding knife” for a year, she got her wish fulfilled. Wow feeling? – I had heard rumors about a bisexual boy from Steinkjer, who lived in Oslo. It’s a bit typical when you have a mutual friend who knows two queers – then she has to splice them together, says Karijord with a laugh. But it would turn out that “Kirsten poison knife” had a clue. The first meeting between the two takes place at the National Theater in Oslo. Karijord and Sotberg’s cousin are on a weekend trip to Oslo. – I got a wow feeling when I saw him. His stomach was tingling, and he was very handsome. I think it’s what they call love at first sight, says Sotberg. Karijord felt exactly the same. But there was little in the way for the two to become a couple. Karijord had plans to travel around the world, while Sotberg was focused on his acting education. They also lived then in different cities. How was this supposed to go? We want to hear how you met your partner. Share your Valentine’s story here ? Hello! Welcome to dialogue at news. Since you are logged in to other news services, you don’t have to log in again here, but we need your consent to our terms of use for online dialogue Hell i uhell ? Kenneth Karijord was working on an oil platform when the two met. – There I sat in a dirty office, in the middle of the night, chatting with Victor. I tried to find out if he wanted me to come back to Oslo. I had rented out my apartment in Trondheim, so I really needed somewhere to be before I went on a trip, he says. And so it was. The two went on their first date during the next visit. Both felt that the chemistry was right. There was only one small problem, because the next day Karijord was going on a longer journey. But Kenneth manages to sleep through on the plane, which meant that the two got a couple of extra days together. – It was luck in an accident. For the last two days, we actually agreed that this was something to bet on. Kenneth was going away for two months, then we were supposed to meet when he returned, says Sotberg. And now the two have been a couple for almost nine years. – People’s jaws drop when they hear how long we’ve been together. This is how a relationship lasts? Marius Stavang is a psychologist and research fellow at NTNU. He says a good starting point for making a relationship last is that the parties feel understood, valued and recognized for who they are. You must be confident that your partner will be there for you. – A couple consists of two individuals who are fundamentally different in several ways. This means that conflict and friction will inevitably arise, and it is not a goal in itself that a relationship should be conflict-free. There will never be relationships. The couples who manage to resolve conflicts in such a way that they preserve security and recognition for each other, have a better starting point to last, says Stavang to news. He goes on to say that even though there are over 8 billion people in the world, we form relationships relatively quickly. – Two people coming together and forming a relationship is about the corners of what we call the love triangle falling into place. The triangle consists of friendship, trust and desire. When these three factors are present, we quickly form relationships. Marius Stavang is a psychologist and research fellow at NTNU in Trondheim. The celebrity factor? When Sotberg and Karijord got together, Victor had not yet become a household name in Norway. The celebrity status has come during the relationship. The two themselves believe that there is a simple answer to why they have made the relationship work. – We fit into each other’s lives, even if we do different things. He is my security, and together with Kenneth I can breathe. I’m a bit bad at breathing in general in life, but here I’m safe, says Sotberg. Both agree that the time together has gone very quickly. – All the choices we have made during this time have brought us together. There have been many crossroads, but we have moved in the same direction, says Karijord. In the first episode of the podcast “How you met”, you can hear about how news profile Nicolay Ramm met his Josephine – at his in-laws’ home.
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Victor Sotberg and his girlfriend Kenneth Karijord have been together for almost nine years – news Trøndelag
