Andrea Gunning

She started to really work on herself.

I went to therapy, you know, did talk about some of the issues with childhood, worked through some past relationship tendencies.

She'd never been in a stable, loving relationship or had one modeled for her.

As you heard in episode one, she gravitated towards bad boys and big personalities, chaos.

And Mike felt the opposite of that.

When she met her new boyfriend, Mike Levengood, she could tell right away.

This guy was her chance to build something different, something real.

He felt stable and he felt safe and he felt loving and he felt caring and he felt like a partner.

And I felt like, okay, I'm doing things differently this time.

Everyone in her life could see this was a positive change for Saskia.

Here's her sister Marisa.

I've always viewed her as my baby sister as a very strong person, but somebody who's vulnerable.

He worked out.

He made food that was healthy.

He drank, but it didn't seem like he drank to excess.

He was solid.

Saskia's friend Heather thought so, too.

Mike just seemed calm, put together, just chill.

And at the time, I thought that was so good and what Sask really needed.

From day one, Saskia's friends and family made it known that they liked Mike.