In the begining

We met in February 1995 and it was love at first sight. After a month of fighting our feelings we finally gave in and opened our hearts to each other. It was, we believed, our destiny to meet and we knew from the beginning that we wanted to be together for the rest of our lives.
Si's Mother, or 'The dragon' as she later became known, hated our relationship, we never understood why. She said we would never last and as the first year passed we celebrated that we were still, and would always be, together.
I had two children, K and L from previous relationships, and Si had one child, Ki. Si loved K and L immediately and always treated them as if they were his own. They loved him so much that they wanted to called him Daddy and vehemently challenged anyone who would disagree! Si's child, Ki, lived with us for the first year of our relationship as her mother didn't want her full time but she was desperately unhappy, she just wanted her Mum.
In 1996 our family was completed by little J.
Within two months of J's birth The dragon disowned Si, and never tried to see J. She caused an extraordinary amount of difficulties in his relationship with Ki. Si said that she never really cared for him and that his grandparents were the ones who raised him, he felt as though he had lost his parents when his Nan and Grumps died. So very sad.