Love, Don't Judge.

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I was really struck by Melissa's story today. It is the epitome of what you can lose by misjudging people, and this pin came to mind when I read it.

Source: weekendattire.tumblr.com via Janna on Pinterest

Hello there! My name is Melissa and I write over at Scribble-N-Dash. I have been such a huge fan of Janna's blog for some time now & reading her Perception is Everything posts every single week has made me want to share how one very important person in my life, at one point, I wanted nothing to do with {& respectively, wanted nothing to do with me... Someone I completely & utterly misjudged}

Cue seventeen year old me...

A girl who wanted nothing to do with a part time job. Who wanted to go to school, socialize & spend all her free time with her boyfriend.

I took the job at Subway to please my parents & get them off of my back about being "lazy"... Creating a social life was not lazy in my mind, it was a busy busy time being seventeen! They obviously did not see it that way.

I hated working there, I didn't make any real connections with other employees & in fact had a major disliking for my manager. He & I did not see eye to eye on anything, and I received a lot of the "not-so-fun" jobs to do when he was there. If I saw his car when I pulled into the lot before work, I would sit there & wait until it was a few minutes after I was scheduled, it limited the amount of time I had to be around him. I seriously considered quitting many times; he considered firing me as well.

I saw him as a stuck up, arrogant guy on a power trip because he was the manager. Unfortunately I thought very little of him & never took the time to get to know him. He saw me as a spoiled little girl who had everything handed to her & who did not take working seriously; he was not entirely wrong at the time either.

See today, that manager that made my life a living hell for over a year, that guy that I drove crazy, as probably one of the worst employees out there, is now my wonderful, loving husband, Andrew.

We look back now & both can acknowledge that we did things to strain that Manager/Employee relationship in hopes to get me to quit & him to fire me. A little after a year of working there I did make friends, which is how Andrew & I started hanging out. One thing lead to another, I broke up with my boyfriend, and started dating Andrew.

We have definitely had our ups and downs, transforming our relationship from one of distaste to one of sheer infatuation all while working together was intense {I officially quit a week after we got married!!!} We were around each other all of the time & it took its toll. I began to understand just how stressful his job was & still is. He wasn't arrogant or on a power trip, he just had a low tolerance for anyone who made his job more difficult or stressful for the sheer purpose of just wanting to, but I really wasn't as spoiled as he perceived me to be.

Seven years ago, had someone told me that this is where I would be, I would have never even considered their statement remotely true or even probable.

I misjudged the most important person in my life & when I realize just how close I came to never even realizing this, how that whole first year could have gone either way, I thank God every single day that I stayed & he gave me chance after chance.

You never know where you will find love, the person you cannot stand today may just be the person you are meant to be with for the rest of your life.

Thank you so much Janna for letting me share my story! Love ya girl!!! :)

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Seriously, can you imagine almost missing out on the love of your life?

I am SO happy that they grew past their issues in time.

Love, don't judge!

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