True love’s path

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When I was 16 years old my older sister left home and moved to Sydney. When I was 17 I braved the big bad world and caught the train up to visit her in the school holidays. I stayed with her and her boyfriend in the same suburb I live in now. Back then it seemed too jam-packed and overwhelming. I remember being so awestruck by the traditional Jewish people in the streets and the amount of traffic on the roads.

One Saturday night, on the way to dinner, we stopped outside a club. Big Sis and her boyfriend had to run in to see some friends who were celebrating their engagement. I sat in the car as they took in the present and their well wishes.

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On my 19th birthday I started a new job as a live-in nanny. It was my second nannying job. I remember feeling so melancholy that I was moving into my new home on my birthday. It wasn’t as exciting as the three parties I’d had the year before. The family were young with a small daughter just 11 months old. We lived in a brand new mansion by the harbour and I had the whole bottom floor, an apartment of sorts, to myself.

The little girl had a few nannies before I arrived. She was the sweetest little thing, with the bluest eyes and creamy olive skin. A few weeks into my new job we celebrated the little girl’s first birthday with a party. The nanny before me came along with her fiance.

A few months after the party I babysat one night while the parents went off to the wedding of the nanny and her fiance. It was a sweet wedding in some gardens in the City. I remember the parents coming home with some wedding cake for me and stories of how beautiful the wedding was.

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On the day after my 22nd birthday I grabbed my closest friends, my flatmates and my Big Sis and headed down to a local bar to celebrate. We ate dinner and then went to the pub to dance.

I made my way from the dance floor to the bar to grab a drink when a guy, standing with his friends, stopped me in my tracks to say hello. I said hello back and then laughed. His lips were blue from the blue drink he was holding. Things are funnier when I have a few drinks under my belt. I continued on to the bar to get my own drink, leaving the guy behind. {Back then I didn’t realise when people were trying to chat me up. I had no idea. Seriously.}

Minutes later, when I was dancing with my friends on the dance floor, my sister came running towards me. “I need you to meet someone,” she yelled over the music, a grin across her face.

I walked off the dance floor and over to the table, and there was the boy with the blue lips. I smirked. “This is Shane,” she introduced me, “He’s Kirk’s {her ex-boyfriend} good friend.”

We started talking again, and never stopped. We chatted all night. He made me laugh. He gave me butterflies. He made me smile.

My sister went home to her two flatmates and shrieked, “My sister just met the man she’s going to marry. I just know it!”

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Today my beautiful husband celebrates his 40th birthday. We’ve been together for 10 years this year. We were meant to meet, us too. He was the guy {from the first story} that was celebrating his engagement party {to Miss. Not-quite-right-for-him} as I waited in the car outside. He was the best man at the wedding that my employers {from the second story} went to while I babysat back at their home.

There are a handful of other stories where our paths almost crossed in the years before they finally did. My sister had never talked to me about Shane, even though she’d known him for years. She’d never thought about us together. It was just in that moment when she saw him, she knew we were meant to be together.

I believe in soul mates. I believe in fate. Someone, somehow, was trying to get us to meet. A girl from the Country and a boy from the City. And when we did, it was magic.

Happy birthday to my lovely husband. My life is so much better, richer, fuller and funnier with you in it. I love you. Happy Birthday. xx

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104 thoughts on “True love’s path”

  1. What a beautiful story. I'm so glad your paths did cross and brought with it all the magic that had been working so hard on making the meeting happen x

  4. Best love story I have ever read! Love it and congrats on the long lasting marriage. Oh, and Happy Birthday!:)

  12. Oh my lord, that is such a beautiful piece of writing. Thank you for sharing… and Happy Birthday Shane!
    Elise

  13. Happy Birthday Shane! Fatmumslim, thank you so much for your awesome blog!! And the cutest little pics on Instagram.. Hope you guys have a Great Day. Take Care.

    Ps. LOVING THE MARCHPHOTOADAY!
    “My son said to me yesterday, My word why are you taking all these pictures”.. ha ha ha. He's 9 going on 30.. haha.

  25. What a sweet story! My husband and I have a similiar story where certain things had to happen and line up in order for us to meet… and we did! We knew from the moment we met that each other was our forever. 🙂 Thanks for sharing and happy birthday to your soulmate 🙂

  31. Happy Birthday to your Shane! This was such a lovely post Telle – lots of similarities to my story. My Shayne and I have been together ten years this year as well and met when I was 22. I was never good at realising someone was trying to pick me up either (and he wasn't much good at making it obvious!) – thank goodness his friend introduced us and the rest is history.

    Thank you for sharing the story of how you met – I'm glad fate got you together!

  32. I've had a similar thing to happen to me with my love <3. It's all those little moments that make you appreciate the person who keeps coming back into your life when you lease expect it. 🙂 Sometimes it is like fate really does exist.

  41. Awwww goosebumps. Such a serendipitous meeting. Definitely meant to be. Happy Birthday to your Shane xx

  42. Sounds crazy, like a chick-flick movie and yours was the happy ending. Kind of like our story too. Happy Birthday to your man, Shane.

  44. What a great story. I too am with my soul mate – we celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary this year. I can't imagine life without him.

    Happy birthday Shane !!

  53. You have given me goose bumps all over what an incredible story. True love like that doesn't happen all the time, you are one of the lucky ones that fate shone down and (and still does I'm sure!)x

  54. Awww, what a lovely personal story, thanks for sharing. Hubby and I have a similar story (I was a city girl, he is a country boy) where, if we'd crossed paths at any other time, our relationship wouldn't have worked. But we were on a tour of Europe, both in the right place at the right time and, the rest is history … I'm now a very proud farmers wife and we celebrate 9 years of marriage next week.

  57. Nawwww…. What a beautiful piece of writing filled with everything that makes true love grand! So very lovely, and reminds me how lucky we are to finally meet these people that we are meant to spend the rest of our lives with. I have a very similar story with my hubby and this gorgeous post has reminded me to hug him that little bit tighter tonight.

  63. Wow what a great story… Brought a little tear to my eye and I'm not sure why, but it reflects how excellent of a writer and story teller you are. So glad you finally met each other! 🙂

  64. The was the best damn love story! And as my marriage falls apart more and more each day… edging SO close to the day that i come home to assume my role as “single parent”… YOUR story of such pure happenstance happiness makes me smile.. and gives me hope and faith that our paths take turns when needed, stop when we need to take a breath, and fast forward when we need to catch up.
    Thank you so much for sharing, and enjoy your special man!!

  66. One of the most beautiful blogs. I hope you and your husband have many many more memories to share. My husband of 40yrs and I met when I was 8yrs old in primary school and he was a 15yr old boy in the senior school. We were made to sit and eat our school lunch until we had finished it, as I was so very slow I was often still in the dining hall when the big children came in for their lunches. He remembers the table of slow little kids but not me in particular.

  78. Waauuw, that's really a lovestory! So funny how you guys ALMOST came together that much! Actually my fiance and I also had some “almost meet each other” moments too. Makes me believe we are ment to be together too.

    And he also use to tell me this:
    Before he met me, he was on a holiday with his sister who lives in another country. And one evening he was laying in the fire bath (bath with a fire underneath to warm it up) in the open air watching the stars… and he saw a shooting star. When you see that you are supposed to make a wish and so he did. He wished the girl of his dreams came by. When he was back in Belgium, he met me… And after 7 years we are still together and getting married. I'm his shooting star.

    And it may sound a little stupid, but I actually believe in it! 🙂

    Grtz, Linsey
    LINS Photography

  89. Gorgeous that's the best story of what was meant to be … love to read the book or watch the movie! Hope you Both enjoyed a Happy Birthday together.
    It's a special day for me too … my beautiful Grand Daughter's birthday is same day as your Darling Shane … I'm blessed with a perfect Piscean plus we're born and bred in your area too … Ahhh memories 🙂

  90. Wow! What a sweet story! Things like that really happen!

    I met my husband at work. He was married. We were nothing more than good co-workers. I quit my job because I was going to live abroad for a while. I ended up not going. In the meantime he got divorced. I came back to my old job. And then it happened! I guess we were really meant to be together. Our first anniversary will be on June 22nd.

    Thanks for sharing your beautiful story!

  91. Oh this gave me the goosies! What a beautiful story, can't almost see a music video on it haha! Wishing you guys a lifetime of happiness and togetherness and more such serendipity.

    xx

  93. Oh my… Your story is so similar to mine… I feel the same way about my marriage…

    Would you believe that my husband and I went to the same primary school…? He was my brothers peer support leader and his cousin and I used to be in the same class during my first 2 years of high school… We knew the same people and our families used to socialise in the same circles even though we never met… We even lived a couple of streets away from each other both in our primary school years and then later in a new suburb in our high school years…But we never met until he started to work in the same place I was working in during my uni days… I can say it was love at first sight…
    It is stories like yours that re-enforce my belief in destined meetings…Thank you 🙂

  94. Your story is a gorgeous one, love reading about people whom find each other, realise how lucky they are that it happened and cherish it – cheers to you both, may you continue to be happy together forever more

  96. What an amazing tribute to your husband. My eyes are cloudy with tears. This kind of love, nothing beats it, nothing like it.

  99. Such a beautiful story. It's so cute that you know the few times your lives crossed before finally meeting and falling in love.

    Happy Birthday Shane! (Trust me, you're going to LOVE 40!) xx

  100. I know by comment 100 there isn't much left to be said. But Yay, and WOW, and Naaaaaw. I loved every minute of this tale. Thank you for sharing.

    And happy belated birthday to Shane. A blog post like this is the BEST gift ever. xo

  101. What a beautiful story!! 🙂
    I have one similar which you have prompted me to share on my blog… I never did believe in soul mates but I do now 🙂

  102. Your story is beautiful. I loved it. I also love the fact that your paths were always meant to cross … it was fate. Cassie xx

  104. Thank you for your story.. Hope has been restored in the oh-so daunting and seemingly slim-of-pick world. Love your work!

    Madison

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