Sion and Ben
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Our love story started back in 2007.
I (Sion) was not yet out but found myself ‘by accident’ with a group of friends at one of the best gay club nights in Manchester, Poptastic.
After many drinks I was feeling brave and on a mission to pull a cute guy. That’s when I saw Ben on his first ever night out in Manchester.
I remember seeing him stood at the bar and thinking ‘he’s short and cute to!’, so I beckoned him over and went in for the kiss….
Immediately after we met I went away for 6 weeks on holiday with some friends. Ben and I kept in contact throughout, frequently texting.
Finally, once I got back to the UK and started my second year of University Ben came to visit me in Manchester (he was living an hour away in Halifax) and sparks immediately flew!
After a couple more meeting and a very drunken night out in Blackpool we woke up hungover and I said ‘So are we boyfriends now then?’, the answer was of course ‘yes!’.
From then on we had a semi-long-distance relationship until my final year of University when Ben moved to Manchester and we got our first tiny flat together.
We quickly saved up and booked a one-way flight to Australia on a working holiday visa in 2011 followed by an epic trip around South East Asia before returning to Manchester.
Fast forward a few years and Ben swept me off my feet in New York with a surprise proposal followed by our wedding day in 2017!
In 2018 we set up this blog, The Globetrotter Guys, and set off on a two-year long adventure taking us all over the world.
We are now back in the UK and looking to buy our very first house together back in Manchester. The last 12 years have been a true gay love story for me and I look forward to many more years.
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