From Heartbreak to Husband: How I Met the Love of My Life
A few months ago, I shared the raw, real story of how I met my husband on the Issy Living podcast.
Tomorrow—June 16th—marks two years since we met. In that time, we’ve bought a house, gotten engaged, planned an intimate wedding, honeymooned, renovated our home, and weathered a few real storms together—like when I was in the ICU with a cardiac effusion and Trace slept in a chair beside me for nights on end. I needed an emergency pericardiocentesis and had a tube in my chest. He never once left my side.
I truly believe the heartbreak and loss I endured before meeting him were part of the path—so I could feel everything, write about it in my novels, and share it with others. That pain became the soil for something richer: stories worth telling, lessons worth learning, and a kind of gratitude I don’t think I could have known otherwise.
Without the exes who broke my heart, I wouldn’t have the depth of appreciation I carry now. My husband is good in ways that I’ve never seen before (besides my father). He is constant, true. He never lies. He never lets me down.
He was worth the wait.
I know many people who are searching for this type of love and marriage, and I would love nothing more than to inspire them to find it.
I am candid in my episode about:
How I met my husband
My experiences dating
The big breakup that led to me meeting my husband
How I tried to break up with Trace a month after we met (true story!)
How we got engaged within nine months of meeting and married just a little over a year after meeting
If you’re nosy and want to hear the story, or if you are looking for love yourself, I hope this episode inspires you:
I’m grateful to Issy for being a guide as I dated and truly her content is unparalleled. Her writing is original and stellar. I recommend checking her out on Instagram if you have an intuitive side that loves outside-the-box, magical ideas:
