THERE would have been no Baby Amari today had the wedding of sweethearts Billy Crawford and Coleen Garcia did not push through five years ago at the idyllic Balesin Island in Quezon.
More than a month before the couple’s wedding in 2018, Garcia was admittedly still hesitant to walk down the aisle with Crawford.
“We almost called off the wedding at that time,” Garcia recently told ABS-CBN News in the Zoom media conference of her forthcoming series, “Kung Hindi Lang Tayo Sumuko.”
“I didn’t know if I wanted to push through with it or not. Sobrang magulo ang utak ko noon. But we got through the wedding, hindi kami sumuko, but almost. Malapit na.
“I think that was also the time pumasok lahat ng challenges. You ask yourself, ‘Ano ba ‘tong papasukan ko? Tama ba ‘tong decision that we’re making?’ Doon pumasok lahat ng duda kapag naging reality na siya.”
Baby Amari is turning three this September. The reason Garcia has not been working a lot is because she has been giving a lot of her time to her family.
Five years after she tied the knot with Crawford and nine years after they’ve been together, they are still going stronger.
“I don’t regret it,” Garcia admitted. “I can’t imagine what my life would be like if I will not give enough time to my personal life.
Most of the time, when you don’t see Garcia on camera, she is just at home taking care of the baby.
Garcia does not deny there comes a time when she really wanted to walk away, even up to now in the nine years that she and Crawford have been together.
“But Billy never allowed me to,” she said. “We’re into this together and we should take care of our relationship forever, so it never gets to a point where we have to walk away.
“Not even one time walking away became an option for Billy. That was what got me also to value commitment after we got married.” (Leah C. Salterio/ABS-CBN News)
