We met two years ago and I still think about him and wish things had been different. He’s my favourite match in four years.
Why? We just clicked from the moment we saw each other. We must have really similar personalities and sense of humour because we just vibed and it was totally easy being in each other’s company.
Jamie is a marine. We matched and chatted but he wasn’t free to meet for about two months, and only then because he was leading an exercise up the road from me and snuck off for half-an-hour.
He said he’d have to text the minute he found out he could ‘escape’ and then we’d have to meet up straight away. The text came through at 6.25pm, so I drove up to a pitch black car park on the common to meet him. I know, I know. Don’t do this.
He parked up and we hugged in the complete darkness, then he got into my car with the light on and, wow! Scrummy! We had a cheeky chat and I took his face in my hands to kiss him on the cheek, but he said ‘come here you’ and we had a lovely snog.
It was then another two months until he was free again, and only because he was driving an injured recruit back to camp from exercise in Wales and snuck off again.
He brought a bottle of Bombay Sapphire over (which he insisted on leaving for the next time he came over…) and we had a great time chatting and giggling. He kept saying he didn’t want a girlfriend and was I OK with that, and we didn’t have to ‘do anything’ more if I didn’t want to.
But of course I did. I found him gorgeous in every way. He is one of the few matches who’s actually taken an interest in the fact I have a son.
After the fun bit, we went to sleep with our palms aligned a burning sensation – an energetic connection – seemed to bond our hands together, for what seemed like ages.
He’d told me that he was due to find out any day now if he was going to be posted to Scotland or Plymouth.
In the morning, he messaged shortly after he got back to camp to say he’d been called in for a meeting and he was really nervous.
When I didn’t hear anything, I messaged a few hours later and he said he’d been posted to Scotland for two years and would leave in the next few weeks.