At the speed of light: if we had to describe Caroline and Pierre’s family history in one word, we would choose this one. The couple is waiting for us in their big house under the pines, in Seignosse, in the Landes. She has just put away the groceries and he is coming out of a video conference. The weather is gloomy at the beginning of summer and the mercury does not rise above 18°C. She is wearing jeans and Birkenstocks, he is wearing shorts and a sweater. We sit in the living room around glasses of water and they introduce themselves.
He is an almost repentant workaholic since he sold his sports ticketing company. He is constantly busy and until his second pregnancy he worked in the concierge service of a holiday home. She is the one who is anxious. The philosopher, rather he. The tiredness is of both. When night falls, their children become “possessed”. The one that just happened was also hard. But it would take more to stop this couple going a thousand miles an hour. With the two of them, it’s a storm warning in the annual calendar: no month is the same as the last. Having a child, changing jobs, renovating an apartment, moving, renting it out, moving to a house, having another baby… Three years of relationship, as many homes and two children: Marcus, 2 and a half years old, born on February 2, 2022, and Alma, 1 year old, born on June 9, 2023. You don’t have to be a math god to understand that everything happened very quickly between them.
Their story began at the end of 2020. Pierre and Caroline had already met at dinners with mutual friends. He was obviously in love. She wasn’t: her type of guy was “The slightly stupid blonde surfer”Pierre is dark-skinned, freckled and clearly witty. But when they accidentally became neighbours that winter, mayonnaise took over. At an aperitif organised by a resident of the residence, he approached her with a flirtatious technique we wouldn’t have bet on: “Do you like coffee?” » At the time, he was a fan of a product from Bali: kopi luwak, extracted from the excrement of an Asian civet. Masterstroke: The next morning, at 10, she is at his house for a snack. Over the course of a few meetings, they tell each other their lives. A confidence, a kiss, a ” I love you “…And here they are, moving in together two months later.
I love to share
The names of the children are already mentioned on the pillow. She has no contraceptives. “If it comes, it’s great, there is so much love between us that we have to share it”They remember thinking. He is 37, she is 32. “We weren’t going to wait ten years”begs. In May, five months after their first kiss, he peed on a stick at work. She’s pregnant. He’s thrilled. “With Caro it has always been so clear…” She interrupts him: “And so fast!”
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