The funny thing is, it was me that made him like that. When we were kids, he used to pick on me for eating 'rabbit food' and was so conventional in all his thoughts.
I used to dread dinner times at his house because he just bullied me. I really disliked him then, he used to block doorways and stuff so I couldn't get through and he locked me in his bedroom once for hiding his rubix magic cube.
He used to tell me what time I could go to bed and say 'I'll tell my mum if you're not in bed by 9pm'. He'd get mad if I got in the shower before him on a school morning and basically teased me rotten. I thought he was a geek - basically one big pimple as his face was covered in acne.
I used to think 'I pity the woman he marries' and I didn't realise she was me!!
When we met up again the year we fell in love, I showed him this video called 'Food without Fear' which showed graphic animal cruelty and he went vegetarian overnight. He started going with me to all the protests, we'd talk for hours about all sorts.
He used to favour the death sentance for murderers and be pro-abortion etc, whilst eating chicken wings down at KFC By the time he moved in with me, he was almost as hippy as me. Then we had our children, I taught him about the Steiner School, natural birth, extended breast feeding, cloth diapers etc. I basically taught him most of what he believes in now - the only thing he didn't get from me was his belief in reincarnation, which I also believe in.
Through my business we started working together and got more and more involved with various different issues. Then he left me and through everything that happened after, he broke me completely.
I kind of died spiritually and when I re-surfaced, I realised that although I still believe in all these things wholeheartedly, the most important thing is love, so it doesn't really matter what anyone believes.
I don't care if someone's Christian, Catholic, Buddist or whatever and I don't care if they eat meat or not, or how they chose to educate their kids, because the thing that counts is whether they have love in their heart. Provided people respect my right to raise my family as I wish, I never say anything about it.
Except he is now like the person I was when we met, very passionate about everything. I do think this is a quality of his, he's very steadfast, but sometimes I feel he rubbish's others opinions because they don't match his own.
Don't get me wrong, I am very proud of his achevements. I think it's amazing what he's done with his home ed group. He runs it for the whole of his town, and I share his view on public schools - it's just at the time I felt there was no other option and I think that home ed has as many disadvantages.
I would send her to the Steiner school if I could afford it. We go to the Steiner toddler group. When she's 3 she'll go to nursery and by the time she's 4, her father and I will likely be living together so she'll probably end up home educated like her sisters.
