If you’re not really the Valentine’s loving type, I’m probably driving you crazy by now, but bare with me, the time for less mushy stuff is almost over.
I wanted to share with you how I met my husband, the handsome goofball in the picture who is making me laugh my head off. That wasn’t staged by the way. I asked my mum to take a picture of us for instagram, we were both supposed to be looking at his new gift, The Book of Everyone, which is an absolutely epic personalised book that gives him a plethora of little facts about his life such as how many times his heart has beat since he was born, what happened on the day he was born etc, and with it being a Valentine’s Day edition it allowed me to share dates about our lives together – our song, our first dates, what I love and loathe about him. You know, the mushy stuff. Anyway, I was doing my best Instagram face, staring what I thought was lovingly at him and he suddenly turned to me and announced that I was “going full out stalker”, at which point we both couldn’t stop laughing.
So, here goes, how I met my husband.
When I was 18 years old, I was young and foolish (what? A young, foolish 18 year old? Never heard of one of those…) and I fell in love with a man a lot older than me who had a lot of problems and was all round a bit of a tit. He wasn’t cruel or abusive, just very introverted and had issues with keeping his trousers zipped up… something I didn’t know until after I married him. Yep, at the age of 18 I decided to take a leap and married someone who wasn’t right for me and who I wasn’t right for. At the time I wanted to have the princess wedding and chose a beautiful venue, where a certain events coordinator would enter the picture: Adam.
Now before you cover your mouths in shock and think ill of me, there is a lot more to the story than that.
Adam was the event coordinator at the venue of my first wedding and that is where we first met. Unbeknownst to me at the time, he’d told my mother that he thought I was beautiful and my groom wasn’t the one for me, that one day he would be. He said he’d just got a feeling that one day our paths would lead us together – bizarre right?
Anyhoo, fast forward 8 months later and my then husband decided to move out and shack up with his friend’s girlfriend. You couldn’t make it up really could you? Think Emmerdale levels of drama and your getting close. It was a hell of a shock, I had no clue at all that they had been having an affair, and like most young girls who thought they’d settled down for life with the ever elusive “one” I was heartbroken. My best friend was determined to cheer me up and took me out to party away the blues, dance my sorrow away and over time it worked, it really did. I felt like I was normal, a very a-typical teen again and I started to really heal. I remember being out with friends one Halloween weekend in 2007, boozing it up and dancing the night away when I bumped into a familiar face – Adam. Being local, we were both likely to cross paths at some time or another and even now a decade on, Adam will still bump into people who remember him running their wedding, family member’s funerals or even birthday parties. He came over, politely said hello and asked how married life was treating me. I replied “It’s not. He left me”, and I will never forget him looking me dead in the eye, smiling and saying “Well, he’s a fool then.” I still can’t think about it without smiling.
We danced, we drank and we went home together, just like a lot of clubbers do. The difference was, Adam never left. He moved in 2 days later, sorted his affairs at home and the most we’ve ever been apart is two/three nights since, ten years on. Three kids, countless career changes, one mortgage and 2 dogs later, we’re still here and he still looks at me the same way he used to.
I guess I wanted to share this because, like one of the quotes in my Book of Everyone for Adam says, Life is can be a fairytale. We don’t live a fairytale life, we’ve had terrible lows and we’ve had heartbreak, despair and hate filled moments that have really tested us. We didn’t ride off into the sunset on a magic carpet so much as work together to push our slightly buggered skoda circa 74′ up the hill. Marriage is work, marriage is hard but I do truly believe that love can be a fairytale, and I do believe in “the one” because he truly is mine.
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Beautiful thanks for sharing x
Aaaah the bit when he said your ex was a fool!! Very Love Actually!
Love your blog xx
What a gorgeous love story indeed hunny good to hear how you met and started your lives together.
Laughed out loud of this and wondered whether I dare to write a post about me and the other half met. We worked for the same organisation and initially he was my union rep, always getting me out of various pickles. Years later when we got together, people asked whether he knew what he was letting himself in for. He said ‘Yep’ and he actually did 😀
Wow, what a lovely story! I wish mine was that romantic hehe 😛
Thanks lovely x
What a lovely love story. I enjoyed this. Marriage is work indeed.
This is adorable! The beginning was a little familair to something off the soaps – I will agree – but it really did change for the better for you! Awww, just too cute!
Kayleigh x
I loved, loved, loved reading your story! It goes to show that no matter what drama might ensue, what is meant to be will be. Thanks for being so open and sharing! xx
Thanks Yaya!
Your ex-husband is a tool but without him you wouldn’t have met your now-husband. You two look so happy together too!
Thanks Daniella – we are I think 🙂 x
This is such a beautiful story and truly made me smile. I love it how he had that gut feeling about you and dared to say it even on your first wedding!
Love is truly magical and finds its way no matter what! Keep your love strong for each other and you will overcome the challenges of life and will grow ever stronger together :))
Ahh thank you lovely x
What a fabulous story, i love hearing how people have gotten together 🙂 you guys look so incredibly happy and made for each other, life always hits us some curve balls but you have gotten through them 🙂 x
Thank you x
I LOVE THIS. This is/ was your fairytale, it just reminds me that if things are meant to be they’re meant to be. It gives me hope that to just keep going and when you least expect it the one comes along xo
Thank you lovely – very much a fairytale I think!
Lovely photo of yourselves and what a fabulous story of how you met.
Thanks lovely x
Made my day. Not only do you do hilarious awesome Insta stories but you have a romantic side too… who knew 😉 love this! xxx
Haha thanks lovely! Jack of all trades over here 😉
That story is amazing! I’m sorry you had a shit fiancee but also I’m so glad he left because it meant that you got your true fairytale and the right man for you. I’m not even a romantic or mushy person and I’m at my computer smiling away going awwwww
Ahh thanks Tanya 🙂 x
What am absolutely beautiful fairy tale story! It literally brought tears to my eyes. Clearly you were soulmates xx
I think we were Tanya xx
oh this is just utterly cute and I love the picture – Its a perfect love story as it shows that mistakes happen and we can change
Exactly Emma xx
This is such an amazing story, it definitely sounds like it should be made into a movie.
Haha that would be crazy!
Sounds like you and Adam were meant to be! Glad you get your happily ever after! x
I think we were lovely xx
Ahhh that’s so lovely! I want a romantic story <3
I hope you get one xx
What a lovely story! I love hearing stories like this, a real life fairytale with a happily ever after which are hard work but so worth it!
Ahh thanks lovely xx
I loved reading this! I’m so pleased you’re happy now. Nick and me have been together for 10 years, but we met when we were 17/18 when we worked together… he hadn’t a clue who I was and I really fancied him… lucky for me we crossed paths years later when I had grown up because I always looked much younger. Now we are married and planning the next steps of our lives.
Oh how lovely Annie!
Awwww thats so sweet. My mummy met daddy on millennium eve and hasn’t looked back since. They went to the same uni, worked in the same bar and did the same course…..four years apart….spooky!
Awh how lovely!
Awww this is such a lovely story. It sounds like a movie! <3 xxx
Thank you xx
What a beautifully romantic story.
Thanks Franki 🙂
What an amazing story!
I really enjoyed reading this blog post 🙂
Dani x
Thanks Dani!
Aww what a beautiful romantic love story, its the sort you expect a movie to be made of.
Ah thanks Nayna x
awwwww this post brought a smile to my face 🙂 Loved it! Thanks for sharing 🙂
Thanks Kristina!
Wow I can’t believe that story! Sounds like fate. It’s great that you managed to bump into him again later on and that you’re still together 10 years on!
I really think it was fate x
I enjoyed reading this. It’s a great story about how you met him
Thanks x
That is a great story! It sounds like a good movie actually. Much better than my husband and I’s story of meeting online! lol
Ahh thanks Carmen!
Lovely story. Not that different from mine – except I’d had a baby with the wrong man before he left me. Mr Right waited in the wings for 7yrs before I realised he was my lobster. Xx
Ahh I love that you call him your lobster!
So enjoyed reading this! What a fab meet story!
Thanks lovely x
I married at 16 it didn’t last he was also a tit. I love your love story it is a modern day fairytale. I would love to win one of these and I’d probably make this for my boyfriend if not myself because he is bound to forget Valentines day x
Ahh thank you Jade x
I’m not a romantic person, but reading your story gave me goosebumps. This is incredible! What a lovely story x
Ahh thank you Jodie xx
What a fabulous story, and no you could not make that up! I love hearing everyone’s love stories and how they met their loved ones! I LOVE the photo of you two laughing, that’s exactly what my husband would do and say too ha ha
Me too Evija, it’s lovely to read them. Thank you x
I would give this to Russell – we met at playgroup aged 2 now 24 and going on 4 years! Small town life 😳
That’s lovely!
What a lovely post! Thanks for sharing, gives me hope that ‘the one’ for me is out there somewhere! x
Thanks lovely x
That is such a cute story. I am very much a believer in if something is meant to be it will be, and your story proves this. If I won the book I’d get it for my other half as I truly believe we both found each other for a reason and even though I wasn’t looking for a relationship at the time, or even to spend that much time with someone it just felt (and feels) right x
Thanks Rhian x
I love this story! Such a crazy way to meet, but totally proves that fate is real, right?! This book sounds awesome, I’d love to win one for my husband. Definitely going to do one for my mum for Mother’s day too!
Thanks! Yes mother’s day is a great time to do one!
Amazing meet up story
My husband was my student….don’t worry I’m not a school boy catcher he was a fully grown adult taking English lessons in Italy!
Haha How cool is that one!? The looks you must get 😉
That is an absolutely fantastic love story, it actually sounds like the plot of a book or movie! Your mum must have thought him mad when he told her that one day he would be the one for you. I’m so glad you shared this.
Ah thank you!