By NICKY CHAMP
Growing up in the 80s and 90s on a stable diet of cheesy family sitcoms like The Cosby Show, Family Ties, Valerie and Full House I had a firm idea of how those Significant Life Moments would go.
For example: girl finishes school, goes to uni, finds fabulous job, gets married, has kids, subsequently lives happily ever after. If things get rough a family conference would be held, a discussion would be had, some milk would be drunk and all would be right in the world again.
Except that’s almost never how it goes in real life.
Just as an FYI, you should know that this post is sponsored by THOMAS SABO. But all opinions expressed by the author are 100% authentic and written in their own words.
When I was asked to write a post about those Significant Life Moments like getting engaged, graduating and marrying the ‘one,’ I thought about how I expected them to go down and crazily enough, they never mirrored rom-coms. Let me take you through them and feel free to add yours in the comments below.
1. How saying ‘I Love You’ isn’t always a Hallmark moment.
The first time my now husband told me he loved me I thought he was going to break up with me.
We were sitting in my first car (a 1988 Nissan Pulsar) in the driveway at his parent’s house when he had a major case of Cat’s Tongue.
His silence and nervousness only further convinced me that he was trying to work out the words to tell me he wanted to end our relationship.
I angrily demanded, ‘Just say it, for God’s sake’ to which he replied, ‘I’m falling in love with you.’