We took months off from work to spend time together, making up for lost years apart, rebuilding me as a person and us as a couple.
In 2010 we moved in together, both got jobs, I began applying for a Masters' degree and we took our first holiday together, to Skye.
Each day we'd drive around a different peninsula in his old MX-5, as often as possible with the roof down.
On one of those days, he proposed, on a headland overlooking the sea.