We are launching our new feature, In Touch, which highlights real life stories about relationships from people like you. It’s meant to inspire, encourage, and uplift each of you as you read through the person’s life experience. This first story is called Life’s Turns, and it tells the love story of Meredith Orr & Scott Thompson …

About a year ago, my life took a turn. A turn that I was not anticipating nor was I prepared for at all.  Had you asked what this turn was nine months ago, I would have said, “A turn for the worse, a nightmare, loneliness, sadness, etc.”  I had been with someone for several years, and it came to an end. In my heart I knew it was coming, but nothing could prepare me for how it happened, when it happened, or why it happened.

I had seen the posts on Facebook from Little Wifey, and there was the connection of Ashley being from our small hometown. I would read through them here and there, but when I felt as if I had hit rock bottom, lost faith in myself, confidence in love, and my dreams for a marriage and future with “the man of my dreams,” I turned to these articles. Day in and day out I would read and reflect.  I then messaged Ashley, sharing parts of what I was going through, and Ashley being the caring, honest, faithful, devout woman that she is … she instilled the smallest faith back into my life, that “he” was out there. She would message me now and then to touch base, and not much had changed in about a month or so … until April.

Scott Thompson “requests your friendship” (on Facebook). Now I should tell you that Scott was my high school crush.  I used to go to his basketball games to watch him play. I would cut out his newspaper clippings and hang them in my locker.  I would use his basketball number as my lucky number for EVERYTHING! (He had no clue any of this was going on…) We had run into each other a few times throughout high school, but he was two years older, and once he graduated, my crush sort of graduated too.

We obviously lived our own lives … until April 12th. That is the day that I see as the day God answered my prayers, dreams, wishes, everything. So, Scott “friended” me on Facebook. I accepted and immediately messaged him when I saw that he was not married or in a relationship!

He responded, and then I gave him my number — so out of the ordinary for me, especially because hours before this I was wondering if I’d ever love again!

We talked for hours and hours for the next month.  He conveniently would be coming to Baltimore (where I reside) from Pennsylvania (where he still lives/works) for his friend’s bachelor party. We agreed that it would be a perfect time to see each other after having these incredible conversations of our dreams, passions, and desires for a life that seemed to fit so perfectly together already. Among our conversations we actually both mentioned reading Little Wifey. Yes, he reads it! And so each day we’d kind of do our own summary to each other and reflect on that day’s article or topic of the week. It became our little “thing” among many little “things” that made us realize even more how “meant to be” we really are.

I knew what he looked like, and he knew what I looked like, but nothing could prepare me for the incredible feeling that I felt the night he walked through my apartment door. I had butterflies or “shootings stars” as we like to call them 😉  Then he hugged me, and I literally knew that this would be the man I’d marry.

Long story short…here we are almost a year later. Absolutely in love, we still talk about our dreams. We plan to get married and Scott and I are now living in the same town.  He truly is my prince, my best friend, my angel, my dream come true, and most of all the answer to my prayers.

So how does all of this reflect on Little Wifey?  Well without the compassion and true spirit of what Ashley is doing in helping to guide us all to healthier, more meaningful relationships, I do not know that I would have found Scott. My heart was broken, my soul was tired, and I was losing all faith and hope in love until I started reading about the REAL thing. Then it came to me. Someone who had once been a crush, (and who still is) but he is now my life and my world. J

Thank you for taking the time to read our unique love story!  I saw this as an opportunity to thank Ashley for her amazing dedication to the world of love and happiness.

Best,

Meredith Orr

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