A couple who got engaged after six days of knowing each other and got pregnant two months later say they have proved doubters wrong.
Jenny Koos, 36, and Lovemark Boadu, 44, met at a party on July 9, 2021, after their mutual DJ friend set them up, The Sun reports.
The pair said they were “drawn” to each other and knew they were each other’s person by the end of the night and discussed wanting to have a child together.
Six days later they found rings in one of Jenny’s drawers and decided to get engaged.
Knowing starting a family was a priority, the couple began trying for a baby after just two weeks of dating, and after two miscarriages they fell pregnant in September 2021.
They were told their baby had heterotaxy syndrome at the 20-week scan – a rare syndrome where organs in the chest and abdomen have abnormalities or are in different positions.
But the couple said the worries surrounding it “propelled” their relationship and their little girl was born completely healthy on June 7, 2022.
“His face was the first face I saw,” Jenny, a fertility awareness educator, from Malmö, Sweden, said of Lovemark.
“I was just drawn to him. We were talking, and then we were dancing, and then nothing else existed.
“We put together our children and make this family within weeks of meeting.
“It may seem crazy, but we had all these friends in common, vouching for us.
“It wasn’t a random stranger.”
“I felt the same way she felt,” Lovemark, a teacher, said.
“I thought, ‘Oh sh*t, who is that?’ It was a deeper connection at first sight. I knew this is the one.”
Both Jenny and Lovemark had been divorced and had four children between them from their previous relationships – aged six, nine, 10 and 13.
They had both been working on “personal growth” and knew they didn’t want to get into anything “messy”.
“Our friend told me to come to this party he was DJing at,” Jenny said.
“He told Lovemark, ‘Jenny is going to be there, and you guys are going to vibe’. He knew we would like each other. But I don’t think he knew how much we would click.
“He probably didn’t expect the call the next day saying, ‘Oh, we’re going to get married’.”
After meeting, the pair spent the night talking and dancing together – covering all topics and eventually working out they were both single.
“We talked about everything that night. We really went through everything,” Jenny said.
“The financial aspects, history, breakups. It wasn’t silly love.
“After we had all those important conversations, I just told him, ‘I’m just going to give you a child’ and he said, ‘Yes, you will’. This is for life. That was it.”
Jenny met Lovemark’s family three days later and he met her relatives two weeks later when they came back from a holiday.
“In my mind we got engaged the first night because we said, ‘This is it’,” Jenny said.
“We found a couple of rings in a drawer after five days – that were my grandmother’s old rings – so we put them on.”
They started trying to conceive a baby after two weeks of dating and, following two early miscarriages, they found out they were expecting in September 2021.
When they found out about their unborn daughter’s condition, however, the couple had to decide whether to terminate the pregnancy or not.
They decided to go ahead with scans every week for the remainder of the pregnancy, but didn’t know how she would be impacted until the birth.
“They were pretty crass and dire about it. We were extremely worried for her,” Jenny said.
“It propelled the relationship even deeper. Miraculously she isn’t impacted.”
Their daughter was born last year, and spent a month in neonatal while they ran tests to check she was OK.
“She’s a love child,” Jenny said. “We went headfirst into being parents. It’s been very intense. It’s a very blissful state.”
The parents “haven’t had a chance” to tie the knot but hope to have a proper big wedding in the next few years.
“We got married on the day we decided to keep her. There is no ceremony that could be bigger than us,” Jenny said.
Their family and friends have been mostly supportive of the relationship – as the pair have lots of mutual friends who could see their connection.
“Some people were like, ‘Are you sure?’,” Lovemark said.
“But they saw how I was behaving.”
“We’re showing that it is possible. Happiness and love doesn’t have to be polished,” Jenny added.
“It’s not luck. It’s lucky we met, but we did a lot of mindful work on ourselves to get here.”
This article originally appeared on The Sun and was reproduced with permission