Thanks to their two daughters pulling off a real-life Parent Trap, a divorced couple in Ohio received again collectively after almost 10 years aside!
For some time, social media customers have watched the love story between Julie Shore and Scott Gaede play out as their 24-year-old daughter Rachel Gaede documented their journey of falling again in love and getting engaged once more on TikTook. Now, followers will see them enter their subsequent chapter of life as a married couple (once more)!
Almost a decade after their breakup, Julie and Scott tied the knot on December 28 at Memorial Hall in Cincinnati, Ohio. Rachel celebrated the information on the platform alongside footage of her mother and father on their wedding ceremony day, writing within the caption that it was a “successful parent trap.” She added excessive of the viral video:
“WAR IS OVERRRRRR our parents are officially REmarried and we are no longer children of divorce.”
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@gachelraede profitable father or mother entice ????????
♬ WAR IS OVERRR – sarah????
Amazing!!!
Of course, many individuals within the feedback part identified how this was a real-life model of the Parent Trap. While the household loves the comparisons to the beloved movie, Rachel informed People on Friday that the story is extra “Parent Trap-esque.” How did Julie and Scott discover their approach again to one another? Let’s rewind actual fast!
The pair met over 25 years in the past when Julie’s sister and brother-in-law set them up collectively. Just two weeks into their relationship, Julie remembered Scott had been “in love” and all in on their romance. However, they didn’t rush into an engagement! The lovebirds dated for 3 extra years and had a year-long engagement earlier than tying the knot in 1997. They then welcomed their daughter, Rachel, in 1999 and their youngest daughter, Caroline, in 2003.
But years later, the household fell aside. In 2014, Julie and Scott determined to separate! Julie defined to the outlet that that they had been coping with “communication” issues of their marriage, and it received to the purpose the place they may not be collectively:
“I think where we first broke down was really communication and just losing that element of being able to speak and really hear, really listen and understand one another.”
So unhappy! Four years later, they finalized their divorce and started their new lives. Julie and Scott even dated different folks throughout this time. However, issues modified when the coronavirus pandemic hit in 2020. Both Rachel and Caroline moved in with Julie. Due to their grandmother’s age, the trio needed to a strict quarantine guideline so as to have the ability to maintain seeing her. As for Scott? If Scott needed to see their ladies, he was informed to comply with the identical guidelines because the three ladies. And that’s when Julie and Scott began to reconnect! Julie stated:
“He would visit during that time, and that’s what brought him back into my world or brought each other back into each other’s world.”
During that point, Rachel and Caroline observed a spark between their mother and father once more. Rachel even requested her mother about what was happening between them, recalling:
(*2*)
OMG!!
Unfortunately, the household skilled some tragedy between 2020 and 2021. Scott misplaced each of his mother and father, alongside together with his father’s enterprise accomplice. During the funeral of a household good friend, Julie shared that she instantly had an “epiphany” and knew she wanted to be with Scott once more:
“That was my moment where it was very much, we have to be together, and it’s beyond whatever problems we had. Whatever problems existed just fell away. It was nothing that we couldn’t work out at this point in the new versions of ourselves, which I think is super important to say. Who we were standing there hand in hand at that point needed to stay together and we needed to be a family again, because truly, it’s all that matters.”
Fortunately, Scott felt the identical approach. When they knew they needed to make issues work between them, he stated they went on a visit to the Pacific Northwest to “hash out our past.” And their intense discuss labored! Shortly after the getaway, Julie and Scott bought a brand new residence and lived collectively for the primary time since 2017.
At first, they had been in no hurry to get married once more. When Julie’s mother started to expertise extra well being issues, although, they determined to expedite the method and get engaged. Rachel specific:
“Our grandma has always been such an active supporter, a huge fan of my parents, of our family. Her getting to witness, to hear about, to hear the stories about the proposal was just so important to all of us that when she wasn’t doing well, I was like, ‘Okay, let’s get this kicked off and let’s do this.’”
Caroline and Rachel labored collectively to get their mother out of the home, dressed up, and with a contemporary coat of nail polish on for the proposal. When Scott received down on one knee, Julie stated he requested:
“Are we going to do this again?”
And after all, she stated sure! Although the household skilled a ton of ups and downs over time, Scott says he wouldn’t change a single element of how their story occurred:
“The way we look at it is just … in the whole arc of our marriage as a single unit … the divorce was just part of our relationship. I do think that we both said in different ways, if we didn’t go through the divorce, we would’ve never been able to get back together.”
We are so glad Julie and Scott received their joyful ending! Reactions, Perezcious readers? Let us know within the feedback beneath!
[Image via Rachel Gaede/TikTok]
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