A very unromantic love story lol.

Back in May 2011, I had been going through a very rough time in life, was a single mom & had gone thru a rough breakup to man I had been with for 2 years & was generally over anxious & not sleeping right. My doctor put me on a sleeping med called Ambien to help me get some rest a night. It was later found that this sleeping med had caused people to do "weird things" in an unconscious state & eventually stricter rules were placed on its miligram distribution. So long story short, I had been placed on a way too high dose of this medication & after taking this pill one night, unconsciously I decided to drive to the store & on the way back, I ran my car into a telephone pole going about 5 miles an hours a block away from home.<br /> Although no illegal drugs or alcohol were found in my system, I was none the less charged with a DUI. What makes this story even more strange is that I had never even drank & drove once in my life!<br /> When I was 4 years old, my mother was in a motorcycle accident with her then fiancee in which a drunk driver collided into them. The accident took my mom's fiancée's life & rendered her permanently disabled with permanent brain damage. Since then, my mother has been a dedicated MAAD advocate. So the fact that I grew up aware of the dangers of drinking & driving first hand & had made a conscious choice to never make that mistake, made the fact that I of all people ended up with a DUI more than a little ironic in itself. </p> <p>Fast forward to after my DUI, I was sentenced to probation, part of which required me to successfully complete a drug & alcohol class. I had a year to enroll & complete this 12 week course. Out of plain resentment, I put off the course until the very last minute. There were at least a few dozen places across my town that I could take this course at & several different times I could take it, but I eventually settled on a location close to my mom's home on Saturday mornings (my day off) so that she could watch my daughter during my class. A couple weeks into the course, I came into class one day to see a somewhat familiar face. It turned out to be a guy I went to middle & high school together with! At 1st completely embarrassed to encounter him under such circumstances, I soon remembered he must have done something he was not too proud of either to land him there as well lol. </p> <p>We had graduated 11 years previous to this encounter & although we knew each other because we went to a small school & had similar friends back then, we personally were never friends. After class we sat & talked for a couple hours on where we had gone after school & of course what landed us in the unfortunate situation in which we both found ourselves. He told me that he had recently gone thru a horrid divorce from a horrid marriage, & towards the end of his relationship, had turned to drinking pretty hard from all the stress. One day, he ended up drinking a bottle of taquilla & wrecked his work van, leaving him with a DUI & no job. He had since gotten sober, gotten a new job, & was taking his DUI class on Tuesday nights at that location because it was in walking distance from where he lived. However, he had to work late the previous Tuesday & therefore decided to make up the class on his day off: that Saturday! </p> <p>We bonded over our similar recent rough bouts in life & relationships & formed a quick friendship. He eventually switched to Saturday classes permanently & having each other in the class made the class less unbearable lol. </p> <p>5 years later, we are now engaged to be married, live together, & are still very much in love. Although when people not close to us ask how we met, we simply say we went to school together, went seperate ways, & then happened to meet up again in a "class we were both taking", we both secretly know how our chance reunion was way more magical. </p> <p>The fact of the matter is, many things had to fall into place for us to have been at the same place at the same time for it all to happen. Starting with years before, I came from a different state all together & somehow ended up in the same town, in the same small middle school in the same school district he went to his whole life. Then we both had to be going thru bad relationship break ups at around the same time to lead us both to similar circumstances one night around the same time. Furthermore, had the doctor I was seeing never prescribed way too much of the sleeping pills I was on, chances are, me getting a DUI was pretty slim per my past corcunstances. And then we had to both be sentenced to the same type of course, my mom had to live where she did in order for me to choose to take the class where I did so she could look after my daughter (despite the dozens of places I could have taken it) & he had to live where he did to choose the location within walking distance of where he was to end up taking the class at the same place I was. And finally, if he hadn't had to work late that previous Tuesday night, forcing him to miss his class & having to make it up that Saturday (his day off), or if I had chosen to miss class that Saturday for whatever reason, we would have never ended up in the same room at the same time to be happily engaged today 5 years later. All of this is not even to include the many similarities we share from being raised in similar families to have as much in common as we do, but that is a whole other set of coincidences lol. </p> <p>I know a lot of analytical people will find ways to statistically prove such "coincidences" away as not being so chance or "magical", but to us, it was this blessed turn of fate disguised as a burden to which we both will always be grateful :) Thank you for letting me share our story with you!