{"id":156602,"date":"2021-08-19T12:05:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T00:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/togetherjournal.com\/?p=156602"},"modified":"2021-07-19T10:11:09","modified_gmt":"2021-07-18T22:11:09","slug":"christa-todd-by-benjamin-wheeler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/togetherjournal.com\/christa-todd-by-benjamin-wheeler\/","title":{"rendered":"Christa & Todd by Benjamin Wheeler"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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On paper, we are different in most ways. Todd is a gin distiller; I am a lawyer. Todd is patient, laid-back, lives in the moment, is never one to over-complicate or over-analyse. He loves the ocean and the snow and wears flip flops all year round. I am a thinker, a daydreamer, a worrier, a talker. I always over-analyse. I\u2019m driven, and I\u2019m often planning and organising something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

I was born and brought up in Finland, and lived in Norway before moving to England. Todd grew up in Surrey. We met when we were 15 years old in true 90s style, on MSN messenger. Todd\u2019s close friend Gareth was at my school, and we were chatting on MSN one evening when Gareth added Todd, his friend from a different school, to our conversation. We clicked immediately and carried on talking for hours, and most days after that. I remember running home from school so that I could log onto MSN, hoping he would be online. We spoke for about six months before we decided to meet by the river in our local town, Guildford. After a few dates, we went to watch the turning on of the Christmas lights, where Todd asked me to be his girlfriend. Our relationship just felt right from the very beginning. It was new and exciting, but it also felt like coming home after a long trip. There was a familiarity, a warmth and an instinctive trust that was there from day one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n