Paths Cross in Perfect Time

15 years later, here we are.

We met when we were teenagers at that Summer camp our parents decided to send us to. You asked me out on the last day of camp and I said yes over text. You went back to Newcastle and I went back to Johannesburg. Our lives went in different directions. You went to Cape Town for university and I went to Sydney. We dated different people: we broke hearts, had our hearts broken and 15 years later as fate would have it - we reconnected. It was untimely.

We both weren’t looking for relationships, but found comfort in one another - we found comfort in our long, night chats. We learnt to laugh again, we learnt to be vulnerable and most importantly learnt to open up. I was scared to fall in love again only for it to not work out. To go through the entire process from meeting the friends to the family - only to realise how incompatible we were after 2-3 years of dating.

Thank you for reminding me how simple love is. How fighting to make it work is worth it. You’ve loved me since I was 15 and married me when I least expected it. You are everything I have ever wanted in a partner, thank you for all that you do for me, for us.

I love you, Kev.