25/06/2026
I finished national service, got a job, and started building a life from scratch. All I really had was C. While she was still in school, I kept telling her, “Let me save small, small, then when you’re done, we’ll marry.” I rented a place and began furnishing it bit by bit sofa today, curtains tomorrow. I’d even send her pictures to ask what she thought, because in my mind, it was our home.
Not long after she finished school, she got pregnant. I thought we could figure it out, but she didn’t see it that way. One day she came over and told me it was gone she had ended it. After that, things between us just changed. We were no longer the same. We could sit together the whole weekend and barely talk.Then one weekend, we had a serious argument. In anger, I blamed her for everything. I said things I shouldn’t have said. I left to clear my head, but when I came back, the house was empty. Everything I had worked for gone. She left a note saying she had taken it as payment for the years and stress.I tracked her down to her national service station, but she didn’t even want to talk. She made it clear she wasn’t coming back, and my things were gone for good. That was how it ended.
I went back to work completely broken. I couldn’t focus, couldn’t even hide it. That’s when O stepped in. She was supposed to just cover my role, but she became someone I could lean on. She kept checking on me, talking to me, helping me get through each day.Slowly, I started to feel like myself again. She brought some light back into my life. We began spending time together, and before I realized it, something real was growing. When I asked her to marry me, she didn’t rush. She just smiled and said, “Let’s see how it goes.”And that’s exactly what we did one day at a time.Today, we’re married with a child. Life isn’t perfect, but we’ve built something real. Looking back, I went through a lot, but somehow it led me to the right person. And for that, I’m thankful.