Yip said she "feels like the luckiest girl in the world" to be with someone that others have deemed a relationship standard or "goal," but she advises everyone to define what that is for each unique relationship. "Everybody is different," she said.

Paola Pentón González, 25, and her 24-year-old boyfriend, Gabriel Martinez Rivera, were also shot into a spotlight in August when people noticed just how far Martinez would quite literally go to capture a photo for his girlfriend.

Pentón told BuzzFeed News Martinez takes the majority of the scenic and posed photos in her Instagram feed. But earlier in July, Martinez shared a photo their mutual friend had secretly taken of him hanging off a boat with his arm fully extended — all to frame the perfect shot of Pentón in the water.

This impressed and amused Twitter user @_KingNeek so much she shared the photo, and it was retweeted over 20,000 times.

"He must really love that woman," someone commented. Others thought it was extremely "self-indulgent."

The couple is still dating today. Pentón said shortly after their story was published, she received calls from local and international media outlets. MTV even flew them out to New York City for a photo shoot.

"The experience was hectic," she said. "We were also going to be interviewed at the most popular local TV program [in Puerto Rico] but as you probably know, two hurricanes struck Puerto Rico so that didn’t happen."

"Gabito being named the ‘best boyfriend in the world’ on the internet affected our relationship positively by making him live up to his title," she joked.

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