True Love Emotions

An Awkward Meeting

A few years after my husband and I had started dating, he was asked by some friends how we had met. For many, it had always seemed strange since I was from British Columbia and he was from Ontario, with over 2500 miles between us and I think it was for that reason that people would ask us.  Those questions finally led to our friends saying, “So you stepped off the plane and saw her on the corner?” and him replying, “Yeah, then a light shone down on her and I knew she was the one.”

It sounded pretty romantic but there were two things wrong with it.  First, I often wondered if our friends thought I was working on a street corner when James happened upon me.  Second, that wasn’t exactly how it happened. In fact, it was nowhere near what happened and I’m pretty sure that no light shone down on me.

The simple fact was that my husband met me at his brother’s house.  I was only 16 at the time but I was close friends with his husband’s girlfriend, who had just had a baby and was several years older than I was.  That little baby, with his cute little coos and smiles, was the reason why James had come to BC.  He wanted to see him and the opportunity to take a vacation was all the reason James needed to land in Vancouver.  I knew he was coming, just like I knew his mother and sister had arrived a few days before, but I hadn’t given it much thought.  He was older than I was by three years and I wasn’t looking for any relationship even from someone the same age as me, let alone three.

I didn’t have any expectations from the meeting and my only goal for the day his plane touched down was to throw my friend her baby shower. It was going to be a small event with her mother in law, sister in law,