Our love story will always be my favorite

Last Saturday afternoon while we were on the way to the cemetery I opened up my youtube account on my phone. I searched this particular song that my husband and I both like. We are both born in the 80's though he is 4 years ahead of me our types of music is quite similar. We both love the 90's boyband back in the days and this song entitled " The day we find love" by 911 is on the list of our all time favorite. Now upon listening to the song, it gives me an inspiration and idea to share to you all the not so typical love story of me and my husband.

I met my husband back in 2004. We were both working as a production crew in Dunkin Donuts in Pasig City. I was a newly hired then, while Anthony was on her 4th month already. I could exactly remember the first time I saw him, he was coating the donuts with butternuts mixture. That is why up until now, whenever I saw butternut flavor donuts, it always reminds me of our sweet love story. Char! I got a little crush on him because of his physical looks and another thing was that he was very accomodating most specially to a newbie like me. We've been together in the morning shift for a week then his scheduled was changed. By the way, on that one week together, he already mentioned that he got a long time girlfriend and showed me her pictures. Ouch, I am busted that fast.😁 I settled being a friend then after two weeks of not seeing each other, he was back at morning shift. However though, his contract has ended after a week. We remained as friends and we talked to each other via text and telephone calls even after that.

After his contract has ended, our communication stays. As fas as I can remember we exchanged few text messages from time to time. Then there was one time, my crewmates decided to have the usual gathering. When I say usual gathering, its having fun with your colleague while drinking and all. We decided to do it on the house of my co worker who happened to be Anthony's schoolmate in college. Little did I know, to my surprise he was also present on that gathering. Until it was followed by another one. We didn't notice that we were getting closer by that time and he started to get touchy too. However I know he was on a relationship so I decided to stop whatever feelings I had for him because in the end I will be the one who will get hurt.

When I finished my contract on Dunkin Donuts that is the time that we haven't seen each other anymore. Although there were times that I sent a generic text messages to him, most specially that time, unlimited text messages and unlimited call at night was a trend. Sometimes I also received text messages from him asking me how I was doing since that year I decided to go back to school. Then on my second year in college, I got myself a boyfriend so that my growing feelings for him will disappear. I know it isn't a nice thing to do it that was why we broke up only after months of dating. He knows about it and he distanced himself from me. But after he knows that we broke up, we started communicating and seeing as friends again. We have set of friends from Dunkin Donuts and from time to time we set a date to see each other.

It lasted for more than a year, until he slowly showed interest in me. We set a date almost every week. Until he started to fetch me at my work and at school. He visited me most at my auntie's house where I stayed back in college days. During that time he was working in Shangrila Hotel Makati as a waiter and after his duty, that even though it was late he would dropped by at home just to see me. We stayed at home just watching Spongebob Squarepants on tv which is our favorite cartoons by the way. Our usual simple dates lasted more until we had a mutual understanding. (Marupok ako guys, sorna!😄)

I asked him about his recent relationship and he told me they haven't seen each other ever since we started to hang out. According to him, for some reasons the girl stopped contacting him and he assumed that they had broken up. After that, we took our relationship to the next level on March 7, 2007. We started celebrating our monthsarry every month. Every month feels special with him. I always felt the butterflies in my stomach whenever I received a text that he is on the way to fetch me at school. I actually felt proud because my classmates would always tease me how good looking my boyfriend is. Teehee. 😍Like I had mentioned earlier that was the first thing I noticed about him, but upon knowing him through the years, I found out how thoughtful he is. From our monthly celebrations, we started counting years and I can't believe this year marked our 15 years being together.

Truly it wasn't easy, we've been through major hardships and misunderstandings. We almost broke up because we took our pride lead the way. Glad our love for each other still prevails. Now I am looking for more years of happiness. We may not have a perfect relationship but who cares, no one is perfect duh! 😆 Our flaws, and imperfections make this relationship a little special. And most of all our love story will always be my favorite.

Thanks for reaching this far lovely friends. See you on my next blog.

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