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Left after becoming disabled, a woman finds love with her personal trainer

Falling ill or losing motor functions can bring people together who are helping to overcome this ordeal in life. This supportive relationship can even give rise to pretty love stories, as was the case for Heather Krueger and Chris Dempsey, respectively liver recipient and donor. Riona Kelly is a Briton who also experienced a fairy tale after a traumatic event:in March 2015, the young woman, now 37, fell down the stairs and lost the use of her legs following a stroke. cerebral. While she has to get used to her new life in a wheelchair, the man she has been married to for 14 years decides to leave her. And the descent into hell continues for the mother of four children:the doctors, who had predicted that she could start walking again after 6 weeks, review their opinion and announce to her that she will probably never find the use of her legs.

“He tells me how much I inspire him”

But that was without counting on the determination of his personal trainer, Keith Mason. The now 35-year-old professional is stepping up his efforts to help the pretty brunette walk again, an event that occurs just two weeks after the practitioners' pessimistic diagnosis. Very quickly, a very strong bond is created between the two beings who share many training sessions, and the two young people end up falling in love. Today, Riona Kelly, who does not always live well with her disability (“I miss having all my abilities. I miss running with my children and spontaneously doing activities with them “, she writes on her Instagram account) can count on her soul mate when she is subject to low morale. “When I cry, my partner hugs me and tells me how much I inspire him, how much he loves me and explains that it's okay to be frustrated and sad […] He tells me that he is there for me and that I count in his eyes “, she continues in a publication full of love. And to conclude:“I have found the missing piece of the puzzle, the one that perfectly completes the picture ". Much too cute... We wish them happiness, even if they seem to have already found it!