Joanne Sophie Ellis, 25, Northamptonshire
Opening my front door, I was greeted with a huge bunch of flowers.
‘They're beautiful,’ I gasped.
‘So are you,’ my friend Carlos, then 19, said, from behind the blooms.
I blushed.
It was October 2019, I'd known Carlos a few months.
We'd met through friends, but I wasn't looking for love.
As a single mum, my kids Olivia, then 3, and Jack, 2, were all that mattered.
But Carlos was charming, and his persistence paid off.
No one had bought me flowers before…
I told him I'd been treated badly in the past.