Once I made it home I was quite self conscious about working with children again so I decided to take a break from that work environment. I started working at a gas station/car wash. It was a completely different job than I had ever done before but I enjoyed it. I lived with my grandparents and it was so wonderful to be close to them and still have my independence.
I was quite lonely for companionship though. All my friends from high school and college had moved away and I was left in the area with not a lot to do or people my age to hang out with. I started hanging out with a guy that I knew from high school. He had asked me out off and on for 7 years and each time I responded with a resonate “no”. Now, however, there was no one else to talk to and he was willing to spend time with me. He was dating someone else at the time so I knew it couldn’t be serious.
Over a few months it became serious and when we talked I believed he had broken up with the other girl he had been with. Only later I found out he had been dating both of us. I told him to make a choice and he said his choice was me.
We dated for about a year then got married. It was not the marriage I had envisioned, but as hind-sight is 20-20, it’s one that should have been expected. Even during our honeymoon he wasn’t the man I thought he was while we were dating. Things changed very quickly in the relationship but I choose him to be my husband and I was going to do my best with God’s help to make the marriage work!
Matthew 19:4-6 “And He (Jesus) answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.”