Unknown Speaker 0:00
Welcome to honor your true story. This is Antonia Nelson. And today our guest is Erin . Erin is a woman I met at a workshop online a few weeks ago and she shared a story that was I thought was really cool. And I asked her if she would please come on and share. Share that story with all of you. So I’m going to read Erin’s bio so you have a little information about her. Erin is a firm believer that you are always exactly where you’re meant to be. Her life has been full of experiences which have shaped her existence, profound loss, world travels and chance meetings have all played a part in the unique stories she has. Erincurrently lives in Ohio with her husband and her two children. So welcome, Erin. So glad you’re here.

Unknown Speaker 0:52
Thank you. Thank you for having me. It’s an honor and exciting and I’m excited to share just a little bit about myself.

Unknown Speaker 1:02
Awesome. Awesome. Well, I would love if you would share to start out anyway, share that story that you shared in the workshop that we were in together.

Unknown Speaker 1:11
Yeah, absolutely. It’s actually very, very appropriate timing as it was. So my husband Mike and I, we met in Vermont on a snowboarding trip 10 years to the date. You know, we always joke around because it was actually a leap year. That year. That we met so February 29. So we tend to celebrate the last day of February with which we did we both took the day off yesterday and went snowboarding

Unknown Speaker 1:42
So yeah, that was really good timing. Yeah, and I you know, just by chance, ended up meeting in Vermont. So I’ll take you back a couple of years. I’m originally from Florida. Born and raised. I lived there for 20 years. And a fellow that I was dating for quite a significant amount of time. We were had been together for 10 years. You know, he he had grand aspirations and so I just sort of followed him wherever he went and, you know, work brought him to New Jersey. So I subsequently went with him. And we learned how to snowboard and started snowboarding up in Vermont, which is how I sort of met people there and learned about Vermont and started going back pretty regularly. As fate would have it. We were we were engaged to be married. Back in 2010. A week before the wedding. There’s just your situation that happened and we had a friend over and there was just an argument broke out and I remember standing there in the kitchen. I’m thinking you know, I can’t like what am I doing? Like this is I just saw my life flash. You know, this, this grown man and yelling at me and in front of our guests who really couldn’t leave because we had picked him up and I just remember that moment I said, I can laugh. I can cry or I can yell back. And so I just started laughing because that seems the most appropriate in the moment I said I’m leaving you let me know when when you’ve brought in our friend home calling home and I’ll come back and and that we did and I just it just you know we just like to say I can’t marry you for this not happening. And so we didn’t we didn’t go through with it. And we went our separate ways. But I continued to snowboard in Vermont. And so it was, you know a year and a half later. does. You know I was scheduled to go on this trip to Vermont. My almost didn’t go it’s a nine hour drive. I was by myself this snowy conditions. I guess I really don’t want to drive to Vermont right now, but I had already paid so I said what the hell I’m just gonna do it. I’m just gonna go skin to dry. If I did, you know, I arrived pretty late at night. like 9:10 pm and because a lot of people are already showed up, they’re already there. And you know just casually said hi to people I’ve known and you’re just making small chit chat and hanging out with people and I looked over into a corner and I saw Mike you’re sitting at the bar, this purple hat his gray hoodie I just remember going wow. Wow, go. I don’t know him. He’s new. He’s new and he’s really rea