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Feel like talking, stranger? Couple who found love via randomly sent text message celebrate ten years of marriage

Last updated at 6:18 PM on 2nd August 2011

Tina and husband Andrew came together after Yeovil-based Tina changed a couple of digits around in her number on a whim and sent a random text message with no idea who would receive it.
When Tina Baldwin sent a chance text message to a random number, little did she know her whimsical action would lead her to lasting love.
Andrew, who lived over 100 miles away in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire at the time, received the text asking: 'Feel like talking?'
Modern romance: Andrew and Tina Baldwin met after she sent a text message to a random number asking for a chat
Modern romance: Andrew and Tina Baldwin met after she sent a text message to a random number asking for a chat
Despite feeling wary at first, Andrew was persuaded to reply by his uncle and the pair kept in contact via text and then calls.
'I think I was more shocked than he was when I got a reply,' said Tina, 37.
'I was expecting someone to send a message saying "wrong number" or something, I have no idea what possessed me to send it.
'But he texted back saying yes, he asked me my details and we started talking.'

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The couple chatted for over a month before either had any idea what the other looked like.
'It cost us a fortune,' added Tina. 'Neither of us had a phone contract, it was all pay-as-you-go. Eventually we both sent each other a picture and we'd confessed that our feelings were more than friendship before we'd ever met, we just had so much in common.'
After three months they met in person, and within just six months Andrew had taken the plunge and moved in with Tina at her home in Yeovil.
From texting to tying the knot: The pair moved in together six months after they first met and were married a year later
From texting to tying the knot: The pair moved in together six months after they first met and were married a year later
'We'd said right, we have so much in common we have to meet up,' said Tina. 'We first met up in a pub in Yeovil, I was really nervous and so was he, but once we'd met it was so easy.
'He started coming down to Yeovil every weekend after that, it cost him so much, eventually we said we either had to make something of it or give up.
'Neither of us wanted to give up so he moved down and we were married a year later.'
'It was really important to me he got on with my son Liam, who was five at the time. The first thing Liam did when Andrew arrived was go and sit on his knee, even though he'd never met him. I knew this was something good then.'
Andrew, now 31, said: 'I was travelling down every week, which was around a 140-mile trek both ways. We made a go of it and I moved down to Yeovil to live with Tina.'
Lucky: Andrew and Tina are now a happy family with children Courtney, aged seven, Kai, four and Tina's son Liam, 16. But they have warned others to be careful when telephone or online dating
Lucky: Andrew and Tina are now a happy family with children Courtney, aged seven, Kai, four and Tina's son Liam, 16. But they have warned others to be careful when telephone or online dating
Computer technician Andrew proposed to beautician Tina, two days before Christmas 2000 and the pair were married in Yeovil in September 2001.
The couple who will celebrate their ten year anniversary in September now have two children, Courtney, aged seven, and Kai, aged four, and Tina's son, Liam, now aged 16.
Andrew said: 'We definitely have no regrets, everything has turned out fantastically.'
But he still recommends caution to anyone in a similar position.
He said: 'Everyone is brought together by communications these days but you do have to be careful and err on the side of caution.
'There are a lot of people out there trying to scam others, and you need to be aware of the risks.'
Tina agreed. 'It could have been anyone who I met that day in Yeovil,' she said. 'Anyone sending a picture that wasn't them, but it turned out so well, we're very lucky.'


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