“Love conquers all” is a pretty common saying, but what would you do if you found out that the person you love and trust is not who you think they are? Marriage is a bond between two people, who promise to be always there for each other. They try their best to protect each other from problems. However, in the case of Rebecca Logan, she was in a marriage that will surely astonish you. After seven years of marriage, she discovered some really nasty surprises. While there may be things in life that will devastate Rebecca, there are also some that will be mesmerizing.
A Hard-Working Woman
This story is about a hard-working woman named Rebecca Logan. She had gone to graduate school and earned her postgraduate degree while caring for her newborn baby. After she finished her school, Rebecca got the opportunity to pursue her dream career. All of this happened after she worked her way through nursing school. Needless to say, Rebecca had a lot on her plate but she was still able to power through everything.
A Hard-Working Woman
Her Family
It had been seven years since Rebecca got married, and at that time, she was a mom to a three-year-old girl. Rebecca lived with her family in a house located in a lovely gated suburb area that was just four miles from Jacksonville Beach in Florida. She had always dreamed of a place like this. A beach person, Rebecca said, “I could cross highway A1A at work and eat lunch on the beach. My Jeep always had sand and seashells in it.”
Her Family
A Seemingly Perfect Life
Rebecca seemed to be living a perfect life. In terms of her career, she had landed her dream job, which was working as a pediatric nurse practitioner. As for her personal life, she was married to a loving husband and was a mom to an adorable little girl. They also had a lovely home. However, she had no idea that everything was about to come crashing down. She did not know that the dream she was living was soon going to turn into a nightmare.
A Seemingly Perfect Life
The Love Of Her Life
Rebecca had always thought husband was the love of her life. In a way, it can be said that she is lucky. Not everyone finds their other half and gets to have the forever kind of bond that Rebecca thought she shared with her husband. However, one fateful Monday afternoon, everything changed. Needless to say, Rebecca was not the least bit prepared for it and she was completely caught off-guard.
The Love Of Her Life
A Happy Celebration
Rebecca, along with her husband and their young daughter, had a grand celebration on Friday evening because it was the birthday of their little princess. The little girl turned three on that day and her parents throw a party for her with the theme of Luau, which is a traditional Hawaiian party. Their daughter got many presents for her birthday. However, something happened after the occasion that was truly unthinkable.
A Happy Celebration
Like Trash
A catastrophe happened just two days after the party. When Rebecca got home from work that day, she was greeted by a truly upsetting scene outside her house. She felt numb when she saw all of the presents that her daughter received on Friday crammed into a bin. However, that was not the end of it. Every little thing that Rebecca owned had been tossed out in the yard, as if they were all trash.
Like Trash
Locked Out
When Rebecca tried to go inside their house, she found out that the locks had been changed. Rebecca said, “I wasn’t allowed back in our own home.” She could not understand anything. She had no idea what was happening. She tried to find her husband, hoping that he could offer her a bit of support and calmness. She thought that he might know what was going on and could explain things to her.
Locked Out
The Reason
When Rebecca asked why she was being evicted from her home, she learned that their family had fallen behind with the rent for three months. However, this did not make any sense to her at all. She was a really responsible person and she always gave her husband money for their rent on time. So, what was going on here? Surely, there was a logical explanation for all of this.
The Reason
The Confrontation
Since she was working and had earnings, Rebecca made sure to set aside part of her own income to pay for their living expenses. She had been giving that money to her husband. Naturally, she wondered where all the rent money went. She wanted to know what her husband had to say about it. however, when she confronted, he was completely silent. The man did not have any answer to her wife’s questions.
The Confrontation
Feeling Hopeless
Rebecca felt hopeless. She could not process anything at that moment. She could not understand the things that were happening and had no idea what to do next. She wanted to talk to someone but she could not think of whom to talk to. “It was like I had been stabbed over and over and I was moving too slow to stop the bleeding,” Rebecca said about that point in her life.
Feeling Hopeless
Taking Control
Rebecca decided it was time she took matters into her own hands. She sensed something was fishy about the whole situation. Her husband’s sleep habits had been erratic for a really long time. She had thought the reason for it was some work-related stress. Aside from sleep changes, he had recently lost weight and was always running off to some place for work or the other. He did not want to take his wife or his child along with him.
Taking Control
His Car
When Rebecca began thinking about things carefully, she noticed one thing that was quite weird. Her husband would not park his car in their driveway. He always made sure to park it in the neighborhood guest parking spaces. She knew what she needed to do next. She had to search the car. She decided that this would help her understand what was going on. However, she was not prepared for what she was about to see.
His Car
Searching The Car
As she searched her husband’s car, Rebecca found several empty pill bottles and cans scattered inside the car. However, she found something else – something even bigger which would end up becoming a nightmare for her. Perhaps she already had an inkling then that it was going to change her life forever, but even if she did not, the search she did was actually the start of the destruction in her life.
Searching The Car
His Secret
“I did some digging and found empty pill bottles and many empty beer cans in his car,” said Rebecca. She found out that all this time, her husband had been keeping a secret. He had a substance abuse problem. What was even more worrying for Rebecca was the fact that her husband used his car to hide his problem – the same care that he drove to take their young daughter to school.
His Secret
Searching Further
Rebecca came across several horrifying things, and the pills were just one of them. She had always been kept away from the car, so she did not know if she would find other things aside from the cans and bottles. She decided to search in the car further. After looking under the seats, she opened the car’s trunk. As soon as she did this, she was surprised by what she saw.
Searching Further
Another Secret
There was several years of mail in the trunk, and all of it was addressed to Rebecca. There were letters from collection agencies, different bills, birthday cards and many other things. Her own husband had kept all of those items from her, but what was his reason for doing this? She wondered why he had been keeping secrets from his family. What was he thinking when he did all of this?
Another Secret
Confused, Hurt, And Angry
“Confused, hurt, and angry were my only emotions for the next few days. I was running on fumes and couldn’t eat or sleep. I felt so stupid for not seeing the signs. I had been so busy with raising a child and building my practice at work. I was married to a drug addict,” Rebecca said. However, this was just the beginning of the list, and she had to face so much more.
Confused, Hurt, And Angry
More Hurtful Things
There was the lying, the addiction, and the stealing. As if all of that was not enough, there was something even more hurtful that happened in Rebecca’s and her young daughter’s life. Soon, the picture was going to uncover itself. All of a sudden, the man that Rebecca had married would be like someone that she has never known. It was as if she was married to a complete stranger.
More Hurtful Things
More Problems
Rebecca had tears in her eyes when she related this: “He had been lying to me for YEARS, and my credit was unfortunately ruined because of it. I had no idea how easy it was to open credit cards and take out personal loans in your spouse’s name. I thought I had stayed on top of my bills, but had no idea he was secretly hiding things from me over the course of our 7-year marriage.”
More Problems
His Lies
Rebecca did some further investigation and found out that he basically lied about everything. He had lied about the money and he even lied about his whole character. Rebecca said, “He lied about being in the Marine Corps, he lied about his education and his job. I had been living nothing but lies for almost a decade of my life!” She must have been shocked to find out all of this.
His Lies
Taking Advantage Of Her Love
Rebecca felt that her husband made a fool out of her. She had been completely ignorant about who he actually was throughout their married life. He had been taking advantage of the love she had for him. He had been using the money she worked hard to earn for his own personal and selfish needs. However, this was not the most painful thing that unfolded yet. There was something even bigger than this.
Taking Advantage Of Her Love
Earth-Shattering News
Rebecca was not her husband’s first wife. He had been married before. Aside from that, he had another daughter. Needless to say, Rebecca was completely unaware of all of that. She recalled, “I thought to myself, ‘How could life be so cruel? How could I be so dumb?’” At that point, Rebecca knew she had to confront her husband. She needed to hear what he had to say about all of his secrets and lies.
Earth-Shattering News
Abandoned
When Rebecca confronted her husband about everything he did, he just left without giving her any answers or explanations about anything. Rebecca and her daughter were abandoned while they were still dealing with a crisis. However, if there is one thing that is true about life, it is that life is unpredictable. It had something in store for the mom and her young daughter– a really big and drastic change.
Abandoned
On Their Own
When Rebecca realized she and her young girl were on their own, the mom became strong. Coming back to her senses, Rebecca rented a hotel room and went to a supermarket in order to buy some clothes and toiletries which would sustain them for a few days until she could figure out what her next move will be. It was mentioned that Rebecca was a hard-working woman, but she proved that she was strong as well.
On Their Own
Protecting Her Daughter
Even though Rebecca was hurt, she did her best to hide it inside of her and be happy for her little girl. “My daughter and I tried to make the best of our ‘vacation’ as I called it, while I cried over the things we had lost, wondering how in the world I would sort through this mess. My sweet baby girl lost everything, and we had no support there,” the mom said.
Protecting Her Daughter
The Next Step
After much thought, Rebecca made a decision to go back to and live in her parent’s house. This was the only solution that she thought was feasible at that time. She was heart-broken at the fact that she was already 32 years old but she would need to live in her childhood bedroom together with a daughter. She thought that this was not supposed to happen to her and her little girl.
The Next Step
Her Hometown
Rebecca recalled, “I left the beach and moved back to crummy ole Tennessee. To make things worse, it was SNOWING when we moved back. It was March and snowing in Tennessee. How could this situation get ANY worse?!” With the situation that she was in, however, her childhood home was the only place that she could go. Some may say that she was even lucky for having somewhere to go to, but Rebecca still felt depressed.
Her Hometown
Crying At Night
Rebecca would cry silently at night. She missed the life she had built with so much affection and effort. She also felt like a part of her heart had been taken away when her ex-husband left, and she missed it. It is not hard to understand why she would feel this way. Anyone who would be in her situation would probably feel the same way. However, things were going to become beautiful very soon.
Crying At Night
Moving On
After several days of crying and blaming herself, Rebecca reached a point where she decided it was time to move on. She made a conscious effort to look at things more positively. She pulled herself together and began working extensively in order to pay off the debts which her fraud husband left on her name. She decided to stop feeling sorry for herself and to start taking control of the situation.
Moving On
Catching Up With Old Friends
Rebecca was happy her parents and her daughter could spend some quality time together. She and her daughter used to live hundreds of miles away, so the young girl did not get the chance to see her grandparents that often. As for Rebecca, she herself felt a bit lonely in her hometown. Then, she thought of something. She would catch up with old friends in town. Little did she know that this decision would change her life forever.
Catching Up With Old Friends
The Text Message
Rebecca said, “I desperately needed to find some friends. I finally texted an old guy friend from high school… I jokingly asked if he knew any hot single dads. This wasn’t even relevant in our conversation, just a random thought that popped in my head. To my surprise, he said yes and immediately gave me a name.” Rebecca did not really mean it, but now that she had a name, what would she do?
The Text Message
Searching For Him
Since her ex-husband had betrayed Rebecca so ruthlessly, she was not sure whether she was open to date another guy so soon. In spite of this, she decided that she would do a Facebook search of the name she was given, so he looked up Steven. Rebecca recalled, “My Facebook detective brain got to work. This single dad had a daughter, who appeared to be the same age as mine.”
Searching For Him
A Connection
Rebecca showed her mother photos of Steven. When her mother saw pictures of Steven’s daughter, Rebecca’s mom suddenly shouted in excitement, “I KNOW THAT LITTLE GIRL!” It turned out that the hairdresser of Rebecca’s mother was the sister of Steven’s ex-wife, so there were photos of the young girl in the salon. Perhaps it was simply a coincidence or something more like fate, but it seems Rebecca already had a connection with Steven.
A Connection
A Sign
With such a coincidence, Rebecca’s mother insisted that Rebecca should meet Steven. After much convincing, Rebecca agreed to it because she felt somewhere deep inside that perhaps this was a sign. She was hoping that something magical would happen in her life. Maybe some people would say that she was naive to think her life would change because of some guy. This idea might have crossed Rebecca’s mind too, but she chose to take a leap of faith.
A Sign
Getting In Touch
Since she had already done a Facebook search, Rebecca decided to send Steven a message on the same platform. To her surprise, he replied right away and from that day on, the two talked through texts and calls. After doing this a few times, they decided to meet. Rebecca might have needed much convincing at first to meet Steven, but after she started talking to him through different platforms, she felt she was ready to meet him in person.
Getting In Touch
Feeling Nervous
Rebecca was 32 years old, a mom and had been married before, but she still felt nervous meeting Steven. It had been so long since she last met someone new. It felt really different. Aside from that, having to go through a really hard time contributed to the nervousness that she felt. She definitely had the jitters! However, it is not hard to see why she would feel this way.
Feeling Nervous
Meeting In Person
After Rebecca spent one whole night wondering what meeting Steven would be like, the day finally arrived for the two single parents to meet each other. Talking about the experience, Rebecca said, “I had the biggest grin all day, and I was smitten. I could not stop thinking about him!” It was clear that she had a good time during their date, but she tried not to get too excited about things.
Meeting In Person
Damaged Goods
Rebecca wanted to be happy but she did not want to be selfish and pretend like she was someone else. “After all, I was just damaged goods. With my awful credit and all the baggage I had, surely this guy would just move on and there was no reason to get my hopes up,” the mom said. She reminded herself not to get too attached to Steven or she might end up with a broken heart.
Damaged Goods
God’s Plan
Rebecca may have been skeptical about Steven, but God had other plans. Steven was just as smitten by Rebecca as she was by him. As days passed by, the two secretly fell in love with each other. However, Rebecca did not say anything. She wanted Steven in her life. She was scared that if she said something, he might run away. Sometimes, their own fear can keep people from being happy.
God’s Plan
Difficulty Trusting People
Rebecca had been betrayed in the past, so she found it really hard to trust Steven. Steven did everything that he could to help her move on from the traumatic experience she had faced. He showed her his up-to-date mortgage payments, credit scores, bank statements and everything else that she needed to see to gain her trust. Steven did not just tell Rebecca to trust him. He made sure that she could see it for herself.
Difficulty Trusting People
Energy And Affection
Steven did his best to help Rebecca out of her traumatizing experience. He put in all of his energy and affection on letting her fall in love with him. Rebecca was glad that she had Steven and said, “I was slowly letting him into my heart and he was helping me rebuild, piece by piece. I certainly didn’t need to be saved by anyone, but he swooped in and saved me.”
Energy And Affection
Becoming Inseparable
Spending as much time with each other as they could, Rebecca and Steven soon became inseparable. However, they were not only ones whose bond got stronger. Even their daughters became best friends. The girls would spend all day together. Soon, there was going to be another big change in Rebecca’s life. This time, however, it was not something that would be traumatizing to her. Can you guess what the change was?
Becoming Inseparable
The Proposal
One June morning, Steven got down on one knee and asked Rebecca to marry him. When he proposed, she had no doubts about her answer. She said yes. She knew what she needed to do. “At that moment, I knew my intent to move out of Tennessee just wasn’t part of the plan right now. Something brought me back home and love was going to keep me there,” Rebecca said.
The Proposal
The Wedding
On August 15th, Rebecca and Steven had a small and intimate wedding ceremony. The two lovers said their “I dos” to each other. Now, that they are married, their families have become one big, happy, family. Rebecca had suffered immensely, but she did find love in a place where she least expected to. She moved in with her new husband in a small house, which they have made into a loving home.
The Wedding
Love Wins
Rebecca and Steven later moved out of their small house to live in a bigger place, and they remained happy with their two daughters. In spite of meeting so abruptly and not having a longer courtship period, the couple have been set on beating the odds. Needless to say, it has not always been easy for the two and there have been challenges along the way, but so far, they have been making it work.
Love Wins
Their Story
The couple knows that people will be asking questions once they find out the details of the pair’s relationship. “People are always curious to hear our story, so we just look at each other and smile. Usually, our story goes, ‘We met on a blind date and got married 4 months later.’ In the end, love wins,” Rebecca says. For some people, the idea of getting married four months after meeting for the first time may sound ludicrous, but the couple thinks love conquers all.
Their Story
A Growing Family
Soon enough, the family welcomed a new member. In 2017, at the age of 35, Rebecca gave birth to another beautiful baby girl. Now, the couple has three lovely daughters. Rebecca and Steven may have started with a blank canvas but they continue to paint it slowly with love. They both suffered from a heartbreak but they did not allow their awful experience to stop them from finding love again.
A Growing Family
Something To Prove
Rebecca and Steven have heard many people say negative things about their marriage. The couple was told they would not last and that their marriage was doomed to failure. They both have extremely stressful jobs, so on some days, it does become pretty hectic, but the couple makes things work. They are adamant about proving those people wrong. Negativity had no place in the couple’s relationship and in their family.
Something To Prove
Fighting Together
Rebecca and Steven are still fighting their legal battles with the exes. They are both fighting for their little princess’ custody. The drama may not have ended yet, but the couple is not giving up. They are willing to do everything they can to win all the battles that come their way. While we are not sure whether they will come out of these battles victorious, we are confident Rebecca and Steven will have each other’s back.
Fighting Together