As fairy lights twinkled, Christmas was in the air. And so was love!
It was December 2014, and after chatting to a man on Plenty of Fish - a dating website - we’d decided to meet at a local pub.
Tom, then 29, was 6ft 3in and so handsome.
I told him how I worked with children with learning disabilities, and he talked about being a data engineer.
I couldn’t help thinking he was a catch.
‘You’re beautiful,’ he said. I had two young daughters, and after we’d been seeing each other for six months, Tom moved in with us.
The girls loved him and he slipped straight into the role of being A perfect family unit.