Shane Jacobson

He's a huge man.

He makes me and Clay look small.

And so my brother's been with Vicky, my beautiful sister-in-law, forever.

But they've only just recently got married.

And it's funny, I've had, you know, partners and everything else.

I've only – Fliss – I've married Fliss, but –

I just – how do I word this?

I love relationships and I trust relationships, but I didn't hold any value in marriage because, like I said, at school, like seriously, just I don't – especially in primary school, like no one's – I just don't think anyone's parents were divorced.

It didn't mean they were in happy marriages, but they weren't leaving each other.

That was like really uncool or whatever.

Yeah.

and it was sometimes embarrassing to say my parents weren't in the house together, so that was kind of what it felt like.

So I felt like I had a dirty little secret, which is I know they don't work and that that marriage thing is potentially a fraud.

It doesn't mean because you're all together it's all going great, right?

And I don't know, me and my brother have never spoken about this, but I just think it was interesting to note that

that my brother and I went through life not getting married and he was with his rock like Vic is.

Vic means to him what Fliss means to me.

I have a son from a previous relationship and we never got married.

And then Fliss and me, you know, had three more kids and we got a house together.

And like I knew from the second I met Fliss that she's it.