From the beginning to now

From the moment I met Bella I knew she was special and that there was a connection between us that I had never had with anyone else before. The first date which in most instances is an hour or two lasted for 4 days with us, and when I said goodbye to her as she got the bus to the train station I knew that I had just met the person who made me feel special and that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with.

In a matter of weeks, she had moved from Liverpool to Manchester so that we could see each other with ease. Our days would be spent talking on Facebook messenger during the week and the weekends would be spent together at her place on the bed binge-watching things on Netflix and chatting about nonsense things.

Life felt great, the connection we had was amazing, sitting in silence together or talking there was never a time where we felt awkward. In the early days of being together, I spoke to her mother once on messenger and she could tell that I was smitten with Bella and that I would do anything to make her happy.

I then got the date to have my surgery, and we had only been together about 6 months at this point and Bella offered to come with me while I was there. I didn’t hesitate to say that would be great so she booked a hotel for two nights and was then planning to go to her mother’s for the rest of the week to work. Unfortunately, my mother…