"I was raised in a conservative home where dating wasn't allowed, and life followed a very specific roadmap: meet someone through church, get married young, stay married, and raise a family. I followed that plan for as long as I could. At 22 years old, I married the first boy who ever took me on a date. Six years later, I was divorced and had a 1-year-old son. At the time, I felt like a failure."
"After my divorce, my sisters, Angelina and Michelle, planned a trip to Seattle over my birthday weekend in May 2009. Angelina's longtime boyfriend had a childhood best friend named Mike who lived there. Since Mike was out of town, my sister arranged for us to stay at his beautiful condo in the Seattle neighborhood of Queen Anne, without ever meeting him."
A conservative upbringing prohibited dating and prescribed an early church-centered marriage and family life. The narrator married at 22 and divorced six years later, raising a one-year-old son and feeling like a failure. Two supportive sisters organized a reset trip to Seattle where they stayed in a friend's condo, unknowingly sleeping in the future husband's bed. Months later a chance phone call at a bar led to a playful 20-minute conversation, immediate chemistry, and subsequent texting that sparked a relationship. The unexpected sequence of events reshaped life direction and led to marriage.
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