Nick and I have known each other since we were 7 years old. So that is 25 years of knowing each other! It almost seems insane to say. We met at our elementary school in First Grade. We have gone to school with each other every since, we lived In the same neighborhood growing up, and hung out with all the same people. Of course once you enter Middle School, your crowd changes etc. So although I knew Nick and was always friendly, I wouldn’t say after elementary that we kept in touch. We went our seperate ways like most friends do in school, and eventually it had been 12 years since I had seen or heard from him. Well fast forward to us having children with other people, a failed marriage on my end, and us starting our 30’s, you can thank good ol’ facebook for getting us reacquainted. December 27th 2018, Nick popped up on my “who you may know” weeks prior to this I had seen him pop up a few times but didn’t think to add him, until December 27th, I saw him and added him. Within a few short seconds the friendship was accepted, and I received a waving hand from him. I had been out of my marriage for three and a half years at this point, stayed single all those years, but I never thought this was a potential person to date, we immediately started chatting, not thinking anything about it. But that day grew into another day of talking, and another and another, and before we knew it, it had been almost a month of chatting on facebook, that lead to phone calls, and those wonderful good morning texts that you start looking forward to. I wasn’t sure what exactly could happen to us, given I was still living in Texas at the time, and he was living in Oklahoma. We fell hard, and quickly, we quickly realized that our views on parenting alone drew us into each other, learning that he had the same wants, and beliefs as I did when it came to strictly parenting, I was in awe at the passion he had for his children and how important raising them right was to him. It made me fall before I even realized what was happening. We said I love you to each other March 1st 2019, I remember it like it was yesterday, a accidental slip from him first. I had been fighting for a week or so not to say it when getting off the phone, so seeing him slip those words out was a amazing feeling. A trip to Oklahoma to visit later that month, and him meeting my son for the first time, and that was pretty much a wrap from there. It was the most amazing weekend of our lives and we both just knew right than and there that we wanted to do this forever. How could he have been under my nose for 25 years, and I never expected he is who I would end up with, it’s amazing. I remember my trip back home, I had stopped in Wichita falls for the night before heading back to Lubbock in the next morning. I walked into that hotel room, dropped my bags, and I weeped…. I felt crushed, having to leave and not know when the next time I’d see him, it was such a sick feeling. I quickly made plans to move back to Oklahoma which I had been trying to decide for a year prior if I should move back home, that one weekend was all I needed to tell me okay, let’s do this. I moved to Oklahoma three months later, and now here we are two years later, raising all three of our children together, and having the time of our lives being crazy, silly and happy! Our story is funny, to think you can know someone so long and never know that that’s the person your supposed to be with. If your single and long for a relationship, don’t get discouraged, love will find you when you absolutely least expect it, and apparently with the person you least expect. Our story we are still building it, still constructing it, and I’m so excited to share our love with the world!
Welcome To The Dukes Family! 