Life’s Unforeseen Turns: A Journey of Love, Loss, and Resilience

We all have a story, and my story has changed the direction of my life. Some events in life can change our lives, as events just simply take over and we have no choice.

The story begins when I met a gorgeous Cook Island man at Training College when we were both 19 years of age. We went out once with a group of others and did not see each other for another 27 years. 

When we bumped into one another again, it was in a school staff room and he was a maths teacher, while I had a business then working in Secondary Schools. He reminded me that we had met once before when we were young, back in 1978. A year later I returned to the school and we fell in love.

We were married in 2009. Steve had been married before and had two wonderful children. This was my first time being married at 50 years old............

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Written for d'connect by

Shona Hurndell

(Mindfulness Coach, Tapping-Emotional Freedom Technique facilitator, Reiki Master, Psych K Facilitator, Eden Healing Energy Work)