At times, Love can be very complicated. Based on a popular song back in the early 2000s, some might say “Love is Wicked”! Love is sometimes seen as being strange or having no will of its own; Love goes wherever it is being led. However, for James and I, I believe the Love that we share is not of our will, but of God’s will. It is something that we knew we wanted, but as our relationship grew, we realized it is something that we actually needed. To start off, James and I met in the middle of chaos; sorry to disappoint, as we don't exactly have a "love at first sight" story for you. We met in a season where I, the bride-to-be, was hurting, lost and confused; in that, James became the person I was drawn to talk and explain my frustration. He was in his own world dealing with his own relationship. With everything that was going on, God knew it was not the right time for us to be together, so a horrible dispute erupted between us, breaking our friendship apart. We stopped all communication for the next two years. It wasn’t until the end of the year of 2023 when our friendship rekindled, now with a newfound outlook on life and how we viewed relationships. This time was different; this time we were both available emotionally. For so long, we wrestled with the idea of being more than friends, but it was inevitable. Somehow it naturally moved from friendship, to courtship, to relationship, to now being engaged. There's a running joke, an insider we have between us that says "Se we mwe we nou la" translating to simply “we don't know how we got here”! We may not know how we arrived at this point, but one thing is for sure, we love that we are here. The love that we share with one another has filled us with so much joy, so much peace and fullness that a life without each other seems to be incomprehensible. So, to reiterate, we don't exactly know how we got here, but we are here and loving it.