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As its approaching Valentines day i thought i'd share with all the many friends i have made on Ciao since joining my own very true Love Story with a very happy ending. I wasnt sure where to post this and wasnt sure whether to get so personal at such an early stage but freedom of speech and all that.....its going to be a long one so apologies in advance.
In August 2001 i lost my beautiful God daughter after a 2 year battle with cancer, she was only 4 years old and i was heartbroken, i still am and writing that sentence has bought tears to my eyes. Two months before she died my then boyfriend went on a weeks holiday and never returned. I moved in with a psycho house mate and life was bad. My sister decided that i needed a break and convinced me to go on a girls holiday that summer. We went to the travel agent scoured brochures and decided if we were going to go on a girls holiday it would be a major one so we opted for Aiya Napa in Cyprus. We booked up for September 24th for 14 nights at the Green Bungalows.
At that time i was drinking heavily and lost 2 stone in weight, i suppose i was trying to block out the grief and pain of losing my godchild, i will admit i went a bit wild and my parents despaired of me.
On to the holiday: My sister (Amy) my friend Helen and I arrived in Aiya Napa at midnight after a 4.5 hour flight, exhausted and in need of food and drink. We were checking in to our apartments at the same time as two loutish looking lads, i diddnt take much notice of them but thought they looked a bit 'dodgy'. After dumping our cases the three of us decided to go to the bar at the apartments and a get a drink,and have a game of pool - the loutish guys had decided the same and we inevitably got chatting.
We learned that they were from Birmingham (the accent gave it away!) they were named Richard and Terry both 32 and werent loutish in fact they were really nice guys.
Romance was the last thing on mind but we bumped in to Richard & Terry everyday and we all became great friends. My friend Lucy joined us in Aiya Napa for the second week she really hit it off with Terry and they kind of got it on together much to the amusement of Richard who was left on his own! Richard and I got chatting one night and realised that we had so much in common, we got on really well and i started looking forward to seeing him. In the meantime Terry had confided to Lucy that Richard really liked me but had sensed that i wasnt interested. To cut a long story short Lucy poked her oar and kind of forced us together.
Nothing happened on the holiday we were mates, i knew Richard wanted more but i couldnt let myself get involved with anyone, i was hurting so much but i felt very drawn to Rich. I opened up to RIchard on holiday about losing my godchild - a complete stranger had me blubbing my eyes out and talking about my inner most feelings that was the first time i had spoken about it and from that moment i felt something for Richard but I dismissed it afterall it was a holiday, the sun the booze the feelings you feel are different i wasnt going to let someone make me like them only to end up getting hurt again, no way. He opened up to me too and i discovered that he had lost his mum when he was 2 through cancer, his dad died when he was 14 and his grandparents had bought him and his sister up, he had a bad life too so we had a mutual understanding of pain.
The last few days of the holiday Richard told me he had fallen for me, i diddnt believe him and thought he was looking for an easy lay but we exchanged numbers. I got back from Cyprus on 8th October feeling very confused but 100 times better than i did before i went, that was mainly down Richard i couldnt stop thinking about him and told my mum i had met him, she said he sounded nice but warned me to be careful. Richard left a message on my voicemail as soon as he arrived back in Birmingham, he text me 10 times in two days and he was phoning twice a day.
Still i knew nothing about him only the stuff he had shared with me and yes he seemed nice on the surface but he could have had a wife or a girlfriend or anything. He turned up on my doorstep the friday we got back - he drove 200 miles just to see me only for me to be rude and turn him away. Still he persisted and i finally agreed to go out on a date with him, we went to Brighton and had a marvellous day, i fell in love with him that day and i just knew that he was the one.
Three months later he uprooted his life and moved in with me in London, a huge risk but it just felt so right. My family werent happy with it all but i knew this was the right thing to do. Our relationship got better everyday but it took another 6 months before i could trust him enought to have a physical relationship with him. I loved him more and more with every second we spent together, he made me laugh, he made me feel good about myself and more importantly he made me feel that life was worth living again.
Richard proposed to me New Years eve 2001,i accepted and we are getting married next year.
So two years later (almost) and we are stil together. Our relationship gets better every day and of course we have our ups and downs but every couple does. Rich is my best friend, my lover, my confidant he is everything to me and i believe that fate bought us together. If i hadnt have met Rich i dread to think what would have happened, he made me feel good about myself again and taught me what REAL love is.
I cannot envisage my life without Rich now, if anything happened and we were parted i know that i would never meet anyone like him again.
So there you have it, i dont know what the future holds for us but i do know that what we have is very special and nobody can ever take it away from us.
gives you a bigggggggggggggggggggggggggggg hug.... then whips out a stock of choccie and ice cream.... getting out a dvd of steel magnolias... and turning the ringer off the phone... hehe... girls night out... hehe... take care... 'peaches n beans'
18.03.2003 21:37
gives you a bigggggggggggggggggggggggggggg hug.... then whips out a stock of choccie and ice cream.... getting out a dvd of steel magnolias... and turning the ringer off the phone... hehe... girls night out... hehe... take care... 'peaches n beans'
19.02.2003 17:15
Congratulations! And a big "ha!" to all those people who say that holiday romances never work! Em x
18.02.2003 20:05
What a great story, glad to see everything worked out in the end. Andy.