Sometimes, what you are looking for comes when you are not looking at all. Often times, I imagined myself telling the story of how we came to be, and I always wondered how much I would share.😆

In my opinion, our story is a unique one, it wasn’t love at first sight because how could it be? He was just another Customer who came to the pharmacy from time to time. We had known of each other’s existence for about a year but we barely spoke beyond prescriptions and consultations, until one faithful evening when he walked in and decided to hold a proper conversation with me. He stayed a while and kept me company while I worked. He came back the next evening and lots of evenings after. The Pharmacy soon became his spot, because he came everyday after the close of work to gist, make me laugh and take pictures of me while I worked. After a while, we decided we should hang out outside my work space, so we scheduled a date but we had to cancel on each other multiple times because of our work schedule. Eventually, we were able to go on a date and it was beautiful, so we went on more dates. As amazing as our hangouts and friendship was at the time, I was not interested in being in a “committed” romantic relationship so I had to inform him to avoid stringing him on, and amazingly, he wasn’t interested in one either and he was also vocal and honest about it. We had an agreement that if either of us developed feelings that they would inform the other, and we also agreed to check-in with each other from time-to-time to ensure that we are still on the same frequency😉. Our honesty with each other set the tone of our “friendship” and needless to say, things didn’t work out as planned because we are getting MARRIED!!!☺️☺️😊

I was so sure I didn’t want to be in a relationship but ironically we spent a lot of time together because we really enjoyed each other’s company, hence we got to know ourselves without the pressure/expectations of an ideal romantic relationship. After seven months of ‘friendship’, we decided to go all in and make the relationship official.

Unknown to me at the time, our relationship began on a sad note. After we got closer, he revealed to me that the reason he stayed back at the pharmacy to converse with me that first night was because I looked very sad. It was a few weeks after I lost my brother, and that day was particularly difficult for me and unknown to me, he observed it and decided to stay back to lift my spirit. He had lost his Mother a few months back and could empathize so he took it upon himself to come to the Pharmacy everyday after work to cheer me up even though we weren’t friends. I guess this what I love most about him; his intentionality towards to me and his kind heart. We helped each other get through an extremely difficult time in our lives and we have been through a lot together ever since. We are grateful to God that something beautiful came from our pain. We weren’t searching for Love but it walked right in on us and God gave us the wisdom to build upon it.

I call him “Mi Cielo” which translates to “My Heaven”, because the way he makes me feel, is what I imagine heaven to be; absolute peace, warmth, wrapped in love and care and without a shadow of doubt that you are loved. I always thought I knew how to love, but experiencing Osato’s love made me realize that I was more selfish than I thought. His love taught me to love better; a love so big that it extends to my family and friends. His love is an embodiment of 1 Cor 13:4-8 and my goal is to ensure he gets back in folds all the love he pours into me.

No relationship is perfect and ours isn’t an exception but by His grace, we were able to prioritize communication which is at the center of our relationship.