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A woman has revealed how she 'happily married' her high school bully.
Lauren Enslow, 20, from Utah said she's 'happily married' to husband Lucas Olsen, 21, despite him teasing her every day for months when they were teenagers.
Lauren opens up about their unconventional love story below:
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At high school, Lucas and his friends would call Lauren ‘Linda’ after the cartoon character from Bob’s Burgers and Lucas would film her in the school hallways.
“It’s funny that I can call him my high school bully and high school sweetheart," Lauren said.
“I have forgiven him. I’ll still tease him about sometimes. He used to call me Linda from Bob’s Burgers and I didn’t like being compared to her at all. I hated him then.
“But I got a soft spot for him when he reached out after my accident. We ended up developing feelings for each other.
“People say they would never have forgiven him, but I can’t base his personality off who he was for three months when he was 16.”
Lucas added: "Looking back now I just think it was silly.
"When you are that young you think things like that are funny. And of course me and my friends thought it was funny."
He continued: "I never actually thought she looked like that cartoon character, my friends and I were just coming up with characters to compare Lauren and all her friends to as a joke, that ended up going a little too far.
"I teased her because in the moment I think it was a mix of because I liked her and because my friends were doing it as well. Peer pressure in a way."
But everything changed in November 2017 when Lucas witnessed Lauren in a car accident with her mum Jessica Enslow, 48, and sister, Alyssa Kimber, 28.
“We were in a parking lot and saw him,” Lauren said.
“My sister thought it was funny to roll down the window and call out his name. Seconds later we were in a car crash.
“No one was seriously injured but the cars were messed up.
“He asked if I was OK. It showed he cared. It helped me like him again.”
Following the accident, Lucas stopped his teasing, and the two became friendly after Lauren’s pal convinced them to go on a double date.
They hit it off and began dating in February 2018.
Fast forward a few years and Lucas proposed in July 2022.
“He took me a top of a mountain to see watch some fireworks,” Lauren recalled.
“Then he got down on one knee and pulled out a ring.
“I had been a bit suspicious but still very shocked when it actually happened.”
The couple tied the knot in October 2022 - eloping with just their immediate family present at the ceremony.