Our Story...
Her Story
We met at my best friend's birthday party in 2002. I knew I recognized him as the kid in "sando" and shorts playing "jolen" back when we were tots. I alienated myself outside where it was quiet and the sky was looking lovely. He walked past me and the next thing was- we were conversing under the starry night, for 5 hours tops! When I got home, I got a message on my phone and it was from him. How did he get my number, I thought to myself... and so I slept that night smiling like The Cheshire cat.But in every fairy tale, there is always a fall. When he went back to Ottawa to finish school, it started to get ugly. Luckily with God's grace, the drawbacks of the long distance has been dealt with. In 2004, He went home to me and I guess that period was "the" painful state of challenges and tribulations. God is so good! He has helped us both interminably to get through our million differences- including our faith & differing perspicacity; and resolve whatever shortcomings and conflicts that have brought us hurt and pain. Getting to know each other by the day has made us embrace each other's flaws and support the other's feebleness.
It was not easy for him. Going back and forth to Toronto was a big burden because each and every time he leaves, his job gets placed in jeopardy. Finally in March 2010, just before my Mom's birthday, he finally asked me to marry him. There was no fancy candlelit dinner, no romantic scenery involved- but a mature proposition of amalgamation coming from a mature adult who has kept his love and loyalty to me after all these years.
I'm very grateful when I am reminded of how much he wanted to be with me and how he wants to live his life with me by his side.
Through the years, I have learned to trust and be positively optimistic with everything that comes in between. We've been together for 5 long and beautiful years and I have never regretted a single second of it. Nonetheless, I've never expected anything this wonderful to happen to me in any day. It's so beautiful how God has done everything perfectly at the right time.
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His Story
​Getting married may be the logical next step in a long term relationship but it's not. We've been together forever and I love her but trust me, there is more to it. Rfa has been more than my other half. She is my friend, my partner, my accomplice, my confidant! We're a team! There's no Stephen without Rfa and no Rfa without Stephen! In life, there is no such thing as a perfect relationship and we are living proof of how true it is. Surely we have fought countless times over things that do not matter (she tends to react exaggeratively over little things), or plain bug me and just be such a pain in my arse, but she still makes me miss her and care for her. It's how we managed to withstand the test of times and still feel strongly for each other- that solidified my faith that she was the one I was supposed to be with for the rest of my life.
