Ironically, it was Jane who suggested Mike come and stay with me for six months, due to a work commitment away from home.
But when, after six months of dating, he proposed, I knew his salary would mean I could ease off with work and focus more on Jane.
Jane shrugged off my ‘antiquated’ views, condescendingly telling me no self-respecting modern man would ever act in this way.
It helps that my daughter and I live in different countries – the reason Mike needed somewhere to stay in the UK in the first place.
Aged 30, I had my own marketing business and when Jane was eight we moved out of mum’s and into a rented home.
