Coming back together

We had been apart for 34 years when we found each other again. It was 2019 and we had come full circle since 1985,who knew that we were destined to find ourselves back in each other's arms again after so many years.

We met the summer of 1985 and we were introduced by my foster brother Gary and little did we know what was in store for us that year. We were fiery hot blooded American teenagers that couldn't get enough of each other.

We had just broken up when I found out that I was pregnant with our daughter and my mother said that I didn't need Kevin to raise my daughter. She had decided that statutory rape was what she would call our not being able to see one another and it worked too. I wanted him to come get me but my mom made it so that if he did he would go to jail.

I spent a lot of years waiting and hating both my mother and Kevin because of all the crap that went on. As time went on we didn't talk and he never saw our daughter. By the way my name is Samantha (Jodi) and I am telling you that forgiveness is good for the soul.

Twenty-seven years went by and I had been hurt by too many people especially my two ex husband's. Cheating and abuse scarred me by now and I was in another wrong relationship when I decided that it was time to make things right with Kevin and that wasn't easy for me by no means.

I got on Facebook and started a conversation by saying that we needed to be able to talk about Amber and that she needed more than me in her life. So, we made a decision to meet and get everything out into the open. We talked about the old days and our first date.

My brother Gary had talked Kevin into coming to our house to pick him up for the Alabama June Jam. Together they talked my mother into letting them take me with them,something that momma didn't do because of my epilepsy. What fun we had,it was my first concert and I was so excited I could hardly contain myself. I sat in the front seat with Kevin and Gary. There was a girl friend of theirs from school with us as well. I don't remember her as well as I do the three of us having so much fun together.

After that night we were hardly ever apart that summer. It was either all three of us or just me and Kevin. Kevin would sneak into my room after we all had gone to bed. I wasn't going to school because I had been in the hospital and it wasn't easy for me to be in a classroom and throwing up most of the time. I didn't eat very much because of the cyst that was on my ovary but I still tried to work when I could.

When I got pregnant it was a surprise because they weren't sure if I could even have children. Well our Amber was conceived and she came early on May 13,1986. Kevin and I moved on even though there were still feelings there that we could not work out. My mom, Amber and I moved to Tucson Az in 1991,and I was married to Al,and found out not only was he cheating on me but he was an alcoholic that liked to hit. Long story short that only lasted a couple of years but took me 10 years to get my divorce.

Next came Shay,who was mentally, emotionally and physically abusive. But I stayed for 20 years because I had our son by then. My son was 18 years old when we finally split up. I am now in Texas by this time, so,Shawn and I decided to move back to Tennessee. Amber and I were both born in Nashville at different hospitals. I had met someone and yet I was not happy with this person that's a whole another story but I figured it out after I saw Kevin at the door to go talk.

Kevin and I talked for hours just like we used to do when we first met. We were becoming friends again and I felt the old butterflies in the pit of my stomach. I felt like I had truly come home.

It was crazy after all the years of being angry and the disappointment of his not coming to get me, him marrying someone else that he and I knew that he didn't love. Here we were looking into each other's eyes and feeling that love that took us so long to find again. I wasn't sure if I was right or not but I knew what was in my heart.

I had decided that I didn't want to be with the person that I was with and started making an attempt to get my son and myself out of their house. I had locked the bedroom door and had Kevin come over. It was just like when we were young and he was sneaking into my window at the house. Although we weren't doing anything wrong just talking like we did when we were younger the guy had taken the keys to the bedroom and had his gun with him. Now I ask you what was his reasoning behind having those two things if he was planning on letting me stay in the room alone?

Well, that night Shawn and I went to the hotel and stayed there until Kevin got his income tax money and got us a place for us all to live. On Valentine's day in 2019 Kevin asked me to marry him and I said yes after a few days because I didn't want to either one of us to get hurt.

It's been two years now and we have been through some rough times this past two years but we are still in love if not more now than we were before. How can you possibly know what is going to happen to you when you think that love is not going to happen to you ever again. Be forewarned never underestimate true love and that you can always find it when you least expect it. We will be getting married in October of 2021 and I can hardly wait until I get to walk down the isle to his awaiting arms and love. His eyes glisten when he says I love you and I can feel my whole being in a frenzy with the fact that I get to marry my greatest of best friends.

We are a testament that true love can come full circle if you are willing to stop trying to find it on your own. I attribute this to the insight of God 's knowing that we belonged together all a long. We can't stand not to love on each other, holding hands,kissing, saying that we love each other. I call him Papa Bear and he calls me either Pooh for Pooh Bear or sweetheart. We complement each other and my son likes him.

They do butt heads on occasion but that's to be understandable considering that they're strong willed men. This is the start of my love story but only the beginning and the end is yet to be written. How else can you describe such a strong and true love than to say that God's got to be in the mix of it and you have to let Him do the guiding at all times. We were the first loves and now we get to be the last loves with the ring on the finger loves. I hope that you enjoy this story because it just so happens to be a true story of love and hurt,but it turned back to love in the end.