TRUE_LIFE
Stephanie May-Hills, 38, Billinghurst
P lodding down the stairs, I called out to my partner.
‘I'm in here!’ Martin, then 25, yelled back.
Following his voice into the lounge, I stopped.
Martin was sitting on the sofa with my daughter, Hollie, 5, on his knee, a small box in his hand.
‘Will you marry me?’ he asked, grinning.
Hugging them both, I tearfully accepted.
It was December 2014, we'd met through friends three years earlier.
Both single parents, we'd initially bonded over our kids.
Hollie, and his two kids Scarlett, 5, and Preston, 3, got on so well.
But we soon knew we wanted more than
