“I want to be in my own house.
I want to make myself.”
So says Sharon.
But there’s a lot of other stuff that needs to happen.
She’s a teacher, a mother of three.
She has a new husband and a new daughter.
“I don’t want to go back to the past.
I’m just going to make it through it and make it work.”
The couple has been together for just under three years.
“We don’t know when it’s going to end,” says Sharon, a nurse.
“It’s been really hard for us to find time to be together.”
Sharon says she’s not afraid of what she’ll face as the couple’s marriage comes to an end.
“When you’re not together, you have to be ready for that.”
The idea for this story came to Sharon and Randy in April, when they were walking their dog together in the middle of a busy road in New Brunswick.
“As we were walking, I thought, ‘What am I going to do with my life?,'” says Sharon.
“I was thinking about things that would be more fulfilling than having a relationship with a person who I couldn’t be with, or I couldn’t have a relationship,” says Randy.
“And so I thought about a story where I could go home and have some time with my family.
And I think it just hit me.”
For the next three months, the couple worked on the story, from the moment they first met.
“The story is about love, but it’s also about the power of the human heart,” says Scott.
“Sometimes, you just can’t resist something that’s so strong.
And that’s what it is.”
“We’re in love with a story that is about the human spirit and the power that comes from that,” says Sandi.
“What you’re seeing is the power, the goodness, the strength that comes out of your heart.
And it’s a story of redemption, because you’re going through the most difficult times of your life, and you’re able to find someone who you can truly fall in love and be with.
And you can find a person that will understand your heart and give you that strength to go forward.”
A lot of the time, stories like this have to do more than just telling a good story.
“People have a really hard time getting to know the other person, because they’re so self-centered and so self‑absorbed,” says Todd.
“They’re always going to be looking for something in their partner that they think they need, and then they’re going to go into a deep, dark place.”
“When they meet someone who is genuinely interested in them, they want to fall in with them,” says Craig.
“But that person is always going be a threat to them, because their partner’s not in the picture, and it’s always a very difficult time for them.”
It’s a process, says Todd, who says this kind of story is the one that he’d like to tell his kids.
“These stories are all about people, but they’re all connected.
It’s really important that people who are experiencing these kinds of emotional difficulties don’t feel alone.
What if we can tell this story more than a few times a week? “
That’s the message I want my children to hear when they come to school: When you’re in trouble, people will always be there to help you, no matter what.”
What if we can tell this story more than a few times a week?
That’s what Scott says, and that’s why he’s taking a stand.
“My goal is to have a regular monthly column for this,” he says.
“If we’re doing this a week, then that’s one month.
If we’re going on a three-month anniversary, that’s two months.
And so what we want to do is to continue to tell stories that are true and true-to-life, that really are about love and about love stories, and about what it means to be a true lover.”