Credit: SWNS / Monica Millington
A woman married her childhood sweetheart 12 years after they met in a hotel lobby aged just 14 - while on holiday with their families.
Monica Millington, 33, met Tom Millington, 33, when they were on a family holiday in Playa Del Carmen, Mexico, in 2005 when they were both in their teens.
The pair bumped into each other in the hotel lobby and Monica "thought he was cute" and went over to him in the pool later on.
American Monica said she fancied Tom as soon as she heard his British accent and they hit it off - with romance blossoming during their week-long holiday fling.
On the last day of the trip, they swapped numbers and stayed in contact.
A woman married her childhood sweetheart 12 years after they met in a hotel lobby aged just 14 - while on holiday with their families.
Monica Millington, 33, met Tom Millington, 33, when they were on a family holiday in Playa Del Carmen, Mexico, in 2005 when they were both in their teens.
The pair bumped into each other in the hotel lobby and Monica "thought he was cute" and went over to him in the pool later on.
American Monica said she fancied Tom as soon as she heard his British accent and they hit it off - with romance blossoming during their week-long holiday fling.
On the last day of the trip, they swapped numbers and stayed in contact.
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00:00I have a really crazy love story.
00:08I'm Monica Millington. I'm 33 years old. I'm an American living in Singapore.
00:15Parents were checking into a hotel in Playa del Carmen, Mexico,
00:18because I was just 14 at the time, and I saw a really cute boy in the lobby.
00:24Lo and behold, a few hours later at the pool, after we'd checked in,
00:27we see the guy at the pool again. So I swam up to him and introduced myself,
00:32because I was feeling brave. When he introduced himself to me and he said,
00:36hello, I'm Tom, I swooned, and yeah, the rest was history. We fell in love and had
00:42a week-long romance, but it was pretty instantaneous.
00:49When we parted ways in the hotel lobby, it was devastating. I mean,
00:53I was only 14 at the time, but it was the love of my life, and we couldn't say goodbye.
00:57We couldn't even kiss because our parents were watching. So we were keeping in touch a few times
01:01a year. We had never FaceTimed each other or seen each other on video chat before.
01:04So when I picked up that FaceTime call, it was shockingly electric. I picked up the phone,
01:10and it was immediately like no time had passed. It was like we had spoken yesterday,
01:14and within about the first 15 minutes, he just kind of came out with, by the way,
01:18I've never fallen out of love with you since Mexico, and unexpectedly came out of my mouth.
01:23I said, oh my god, me too. I'm so glad I'm not crazy. And that's when the wheels started
01:28turning. We're like, we have to see each other. We have to see each other in real life.
01:36So I scheduled this big trip, kind of my eat, pray, love moment. And so I was like,
01:42I'm going to go out to Asia. Obviously, if we're going to do this, and I'm going to be with him,
01:46I want to see what that part of the world is like, see if it's someplace I'd want to move.
01:49At the end of that trip, I met up with him in Hong Kong, where he was for work.
01:53Friday comes, and I'm supposed to leave the next day. And he was just like, I don't want you to
01:56leave. And I was like, I don't want to leave either. And then we were like, we're adults.
02:00We can do whatever we want. I'm changing my flight. And so I changed my flight for the next
02:04week. And we did that on repeat for a month. We were sitting there having dinner. And he said to
02:13me, he was like, well, I'm going to marry you one day. And I was like, well, yeah. I mean,
02:18to me, that wasn't even a crazy comment from him. That was a given. I just knew that this was my
02:22person. And at the end of it, he was just like, well, when? And I was like, what do you mean,
02:27when? When are we going to get married? And he was like, yeah, what day do you want to get married?
02:31And so we kind of played around with dates and picked a day. And then he's like, good,
02:36it's done, deal. And I was like, wait, are we engaged? So we found a cute little boutique
02:41hotel in Singapore with a gorgeous rooftop overlooking the city. And they had an availability
02:46in three weeks. So we said, OK, we're getting married in three weeks.
02:54We got to a certain point. We're like, OK, I think we're ready for a baby. We recently,
02:59a year ago, welcomed our baby boy, Cruz, to the world. It's wild seeing the person you love most
03:05in the world in this little cute baby hybrid of you two. Being with Tom feels like I'm home.
03:11And it's always felt that way from the beginning since I was 14, 26, and today.