Met my husband because of fate-driven coincidence!

My senior year at Brookfield High School (CT) my girlfriends decided to take a tip to Cancun. A trip in which I didn'​t go. While they were there, my friends met a bunch of Army guys and hung out with them the whole time.

A year and a half later this same group of girlfriends decided to take another trip. This trip would be to Myrtle Beach, SC and this time I was not going to miss it! On our long drive from Connecticut to Myrtle we passed a sign on the highway that read "​Fayettev​ille."​ My friends were screaming that the guys they met in Cancun were from there and that they should call them to meet us in Myrtle. That they did and the guys met us there the next day.

Four guys walked in the door that evening and right away I could not keep my eyes off one of them- Ben. Ben, like me was not on the Cancun trip with the everyone else. We clicked right away and have been together since.

Now, five years later, after a cross country long distance relationship (for four years) and 3 deployments (to Iraq, the Philippines and Afghanistan)....I am happily married to my soulmate.

Who would have ever thought that my crazy 18 year old girlfriends on spring break would lead me to the man I would later marry? Life Changing Coincidence...I think so :)