Shareen & Jim Thompson’s Luv Story

Renewing Vows at Launiupoko beach Maui

To be honest, we didn’t like each other at first…. he thought I was hired to take over his job so he was leery of me and I thought he was a bit stand offish and abrupt. After a while we started hanging out together in a group setting and soon became best friends. Now, this part is especially important, and I would love to have it incorporated into our vows as it is a huge joke between us,

but I kissed him first;

after that it was true love from then on out for us. Between the two of us we have 4 children when we were married, we not only married each other, but we married our kids as well, becoming a happy blended family. We are not only husband and wife, but best friends, partners in raising our children, a team, lovers and soul mates.

 We are truly best friends and could spend every second of every day together and never get bored with one another. Through all our ups and downs that life has thrown at us, we have stayed strong by supporting and depending on each other.

We are each other’s rocks; we are loving and supportive of one another and we push the other to be the best they can in anything we do. We work through any issues by talking and communicating rather than arguing and fighting. We have defiantly had some rough moments in our marriage, as most couples do, but we stayed true to who we were and always knew love would get us through anything, I am thankful to not only be married to my husband, the father of my children, my heart and soul, but my also my best friend.

Shareen & Jim Thompson’s Luv Story Blessing

Jim thought Shareen was there to steal his job… However,

it turns out that she ‘stole the First Kiss’… and ended up stealing his heart 😉

A good marriage is one that builds on the strengths of each other.

building a strong and last love natural integrates the strengths of one

to overcome the challenges of the other… and vice versa.

In my ceremony, I mention:

How the “woman’s intuition” teams up with a man’s ‘gut instincts’,

Loving Kindness is premiant, Love Begets Love, naturally becoming each other’s

Rock, confidant, defender in times of dark and light, pain and sorrow

and everything that comes along…

You have journeyed through this life, met your true love and together

transcended those challenges together creating a love that is much deeper than one could ever have imagined before.

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The Start of 2020

Our business was doing great, but we still couldn’t afford to buy a house or a condo. Renting in Maui for another 30 years was not an option we wanted to take. Then, Bobbie Jo suggested we buy a sailboat that is comfortable to cruise and live in. By the end of January, we started looking for our new home.

After a long search, we found our dream boat in Mazatlan, Mexico. COVID-19 was not yet a concern when our boat hunt began, but masks were starting to appear at airports by the time we flew to Mazatlan. Originally, we had planned to get the boat ready as fast as possible to cover a full calendar for the busy wedding season. However, it was apparent our business was going to tank amid the pandemic, and the struggle went on until the end of the year.

Luckily, we scored an awesome condo for only $19 a day at Mazatlan. On the 10th day of our stay, we received the news that all harbors will be closed the next Monday morning. We thought we’d be stuck in Mexico longer, but another sailor advised us to leave before sunrise.

We felt the adrenalin of escaping the Mexican harbor master just before the sun rose that faithful day. The seas were rough as waves were building up in the tight channel that led us to the open ocean. We ended up anchored off an adorable little isle just a mile offshore. We enjoyed cruising to many spectacular anchorages and cute villages on our way to Puerto Vallarta, where we would depart for Maui on May 7. On May 30, 2020, we completed our 24-day passage from Mexico to Maui.