On September 11th, 2012, one of my greatest blessings re-entered my life. We all know social media is a great for a lot of things when used properly. Its a wealth of information it can bring people together, inform you of all the latest news, some good, some bad. Then sometimes its a great tool to connect you with people. Or in my case re-connect you with people. Let me back up a bit and tell you the story from the beginning. My husband and I dated in our teens, back in 1997 we were engaged for about 2 months. We broke up when I was 18 and he was 22. He was ready to settle down, he wanted to be with me constantly. At the time I thought this is a very suffocating relationship. I was young at the time, and lets face it what 18 year old is really ready for marriage?! I thought I was for a moment, but one day there was an argument between him and I. An argument that very quickly escalated into me telling him "I cant do this anymore we are over". It was a decision I made without thinking a very hasty decision. As we all know the worst time to make a decision is when we are upset . Well the decision was made, I felt at the time I did the right thing. I remember thinking "good no more being suffocated by him constantly wanting to be with me", and now I can be free. Well years and years went by and yes I did marry someone else during that time. A relationship that was not good, oh it started out good but it didnt stay that way. That is a story for another time, but not for today. I will say my first husband left, so now to get on with the good part of the story. I was on facebook one evening months and months after my husband left, and I couldnt stop thinking of that guy (Henry) that I broke up with all of those years ago because I thought he was too suffocating, too clingy. I wondered is he married now, does he have a girlfriend. Should I even bother looking him up on facebook or just let it go. I decided oh just look him up see what you find. So thats what I did. His page was private at the time, so not much to go on there,I could only see certain pictures he posted. There was no relationship status visible to me. So what did I do, I sent him a private message. Just a general hello how are you..you know just an ice breaker to get started. Well that little hello how are you turned into a full blown conversation and I found out that he in fact was not married after all of those years and he currently did not have a girlfriend. I was beyond happy, because I never stopped loving him I was young when we got engaged and didnt appreciate his loving kindness, his desire to be with me more than he wasn't, and the fact that he wanted to just settle down. One thing led to another before we knew it we were out on dates, then built a house together, and got married May 17th, 2014. This was one of my greatest blessings in my life. He even kept the ring that he gave me all those years ago when we got engaged that I gave back to him when we broke up. That is my wedding ring today. Its a special story that I wanted to share. God works in mysterious ways after all of those years he brought us back together ..its a love story worth sharing.
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