Not sure if I have ever told the story on here. I haven't told any of my family how we really met, just said through friends on facebook.

The truth is, I was off work with bronchitis in September 2012 and sleeping and resting for around two weeks. During the first week I decided to download some TV programs to watch in bed on my laptop. On one of the websites I went to an ad, came up with a dating site called 'Filipino Cupid' and I accidentally clicked onto it. Normally I closed those sort of windows down straight away, but this time I was curious - as the women on the front page looked pretty attractive to me.

So out of boredom I created a profile and put what I thought were good pictures on there.

Almost straightaway I was getting profile views and messages in my inbox, but of course the "free site" all of a sudden became a pay site if you wanted to read messages.

And as I had no intention of paying for a dating site, I logged off and thought no more about it.

Next day, I checked my email and had about 100 messages telling me I had messages there to read.

I decided to log back on and look at some profiles, as I knew I couldn't read the messages. First off, I decided to delete the messages and, upon doing so, one of the profile pictures caught my eye. It was Harlene's! I clicked on it to see her full profile, really liked what I saw and read.

So, before I knew it, my credit card was in my hand and I had purchased a three months' subscription!

I immediately messaged Harlene back. But, due to the time difference, she was asleep. So I logged off and went back to sleep. I was then in bed for 3 days, feeling really bad.

When I finally logged onto Filipino Cupid again, I found a three-day-old message from Harlene. I later found out she was going to not bother pursuing me as apparently I looked a bit of a hard man from my photos and her sister said I didn't smile! Also, she thought I wasn't interested as I hadn't replied sooner.

However her friend told her to give me a chance as I looked really nice.

21 months or so after the first message, we married in June 2014. We have lived together in England since 30th November 2014 and our first baby is due on 15th Feb 2015.....

Thank God I was ill in bed in September 2012; it changed my life for the better!