Finishing work early, I headed home to surprise my boyfriend, Simon, then 40.
We’d met at school, both aged 13, and years later, in 2007, we’d become Facebook friends.
Married at the time, my love and attention was focused on my daughter, born a few months earlier. However, that first marriage ended only a year later.
But in 2014, Simon – a dad of two girls, then aged 13 and 11, and recently separated himself – and I started messaging back and forth.
Finally, in 2015, we met up to take our kids to the museum. Sparks flew
