Name: Reba and Daniel Copeland

Story: We fell in love in a modern-age way but our love story is far more classic. Three weeks after ignoring an online message from a stranger with a dog for a profile picture, I messaged a man back that would forever be in my life. It was a short 4 months of dating when he would ask my dad to have permission to marry me, but I would have said yes on our third date. There are some people who enter your life and you know in that instant you will never be the same. He would ask me to marry him just 5 months after meeting and less than a year later we were married in a traditional Catholic ceremony surrounded by family and friends. I was on top of the world and we thought we had it all, nothing could bring us down, and then one night everything changed.

Not even six months after we said “I do”, we newly-weds were sitting in an ER when my husband, my prince-charming, my world, collapsed to the floor with no heart-beat and wasn’t breathing. He suffered a massive heart attack. I sat and thought I knew how much I loved him, but in that moment I realized our love was deeper than I could ever imagine. I was asked if I wanted a priest called or someone to come in. All I could do was hold his t-shirt that I picked up from the hallway that they had cut off and think I should have fixed the hole he asked me to sew so long ago. When he woke he immediately looked for me and all I could say is, “you can’t leave me, I just got you”.

Failure wasn’t an option for the doctors and I told them that, I wasn’t ready to be a 28 year old widow. It’s our love that got us through. It’s our love that got us through that week of immediate recovery. It’s our love that got us through the first month of knowing all the statistics of this reoccurring again. It’s our love that got us 5 months post heart-attack and fully functioning with no side-affects. But it’s our love that also has us 20 weeks pregnant and expecting our first child in February, a miracle with slim odds after everything we had been through. Our love found a way for us to make it through and celebrate our one year marriage anniversary coming on October 24th. Our love is timeless, it can’t be broken, it can’t be swayed and in one-year we learned how to live all of our vows with all of the meaning we said standing blissfully in front of our family and friends.

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