These Childhood Sweethearts Ended Up Marrying Each Other After Ten Years, But Something Unexpected Happened To His Wife

Emmy Collet and Jake Coates became popular for their heartfelt love story. They started as a childhood sweethearts when they were only 11 years old and ended up being a wedded pair as they decided to rekindle their love after ten years. The story of these lovebirds could have easily been taken straight from a movie script. They had been planning the rest of their beautiful lives together but were completely unaware of what was about to come their way. This emotional story will leave you absolutely speech, grab your tissues, and keep reading!

 

Meant To Be

Before they became Mr. and Mrs. Coates, they were in a long-distance type of relationship. Even though they are separated by thousands of miles, the couple made sure that their love wouldn’t fade, but fate has something on its sleeve that made this couple’s love story both tragic and heartwarming. 

Childhood Lovebirds

Jake and Emmy noticed that they both have feelings for one another when they were only just 11 years old. They started dating after 3 years; they were attending the same primary school. At a young age, these little lovebirds formed their love thru an amazing friendship.

 

Little Love

Emmy looked back at the earliest part of their love story when she told in an interview that she was only 11 years old by the time she started to have her “school girl crush” on Jake Coates. She doesn’t know by that time that this “crush” thing towards Jake would be so relevant in her love life. 

Teenage Love

As Jake and Emmy started their love by the age of 11 and they started dating by the age of 13. She mentioned in an interview that Jake nicknamed her as his “lobster” citing from a famous sitcom, Friends. These adorable sweethearts are truly in love with one another at a young age.  

Their Own Path

As time continues to build Jake and Emmy’s childhood romance, their love story was challenged when they have to make their personal decisions for the sake of their future. Despite that, Jake already told Emmy on a note that he wrote that one day, when she can still put up with him, he will marry her and she was his everything. Ain’t that sweet? 

Tough Choice

Jake and Emmy’s love continues to blossom starting from a simple grade school crush to high school lovers but it is coming to an end when these childhood sweethearts decided to go to two different universities. It is known that Jake and Emmy broke up before or during their college days. Even though university life is all about freedom, getting up early, and getting it all done late, this lover proved that they truly in love with each other. 

Back Together

Even though Jake Coates and Emmy Collett choose two different paths to take on their college, the two made sure that their love wouldn’t just end because of that. They remained as close friends over the years. Their love may look like it was drifted away by all these I-am-busy-building-my-career years but they managed to rekindle their romance and came back together as lovers again. Jake and Emmy thought it was going to be all perfect and fine when fate gave them a few more surprises.  

Long Distance

Getting back to lovers’ status in 2015, Jake and Emmy’s relationship was in long-distance mode since Jake was working as a doctor in Sydney and Emmy was a primary school teacher in London. The lovers made sure that the thousands of miles between them wouldn’t be a challenge to their relationship. 

Going Strong

Even though they were almost half of the world apart, these two lovebirds never thought of giving up their love. The distance made their love stronger as they keep in touch by face timing each other every day. Since long-distance was not a problem to them, Jake and Emmy even visited one another quite often but after a couple of months, this set us was about to change. 

It’s Official

Jake and Emmy’s long-distance relationship and busy professional life didn’t stop them from creating their plans for their future together. After all of the face timing and long-distance travel to visit one another, in 2016, Jake thought of doing something that he already told Emmy on a note he wrote before. 

Going Through With His Word

Remember when Jake wrote Emmy a note saying that “You are my everything and when you can still put up with me, one day I will marry you.” This the promise Jake would like for Emmy to remember as he planned to turn this simple note into reality. Jake’s plans consist of booking a trip to the Philippines and proposing to Emmy on a cliff where fireworks shine in the background. The proposal is well-thought and everything is going well to Jake’s plan until he found something out. 

 

All The Plans Changed

Just before Jake and Emmy’s trip to the Philippines, the couple decided to take a casual trip to Australia. On a night before their flight, Emmy asked her boyfriend to give her a simple neck massage as she wanted to feel relax before their flight. 

Uncomfortable Find

Giving a simple neck massage to your girlfriend is such an easy task. Any partner would do that to help the love of their life to be and to feel relaxed. Jake did grant Emmy’s easy request but he didn’t know that this simple task would surprise him. 

Massage Of Revelations

Taking up Emmy’s request, Jake started to gently massage her neck; but upon touching it, he knew that something is off about her neck and he started to feel the jolt of surprise on what he is touching on his hand. 

Completely Frozen

Going on a date on a casual Saturday afternoon on Australia, just days before their trip, is a normal thing for a couple to do, but when Emmy asks for a neck massage, this is where Jake is completely shocked for what he did found out on his girlfriend’s neck. 

his blood ran cold.”

Their Whole World Changed

Upon touching Emmy’s neck, Jake found a lump and it surprises him that it made him panic inside. Even though it made him completely frozen, he didn’t let his surprised reaction reach and startle his girlfriend. 

An Unexpected Revealing

As Jake discovers that something is not normal on Emmy’s neck, he didn’t let the surprise to take over. Instead, he calmly told Emmy that it would be the best of she will immediately schedule an appointment with her doctor and have the lump checked. Emmy did follow Jake’s suggestion and had it checked with her GP but the result was not something the couple is expecting.

Tragic News

Before Jake had planned for everything to have a magical, fairytale-like proposal to Emmy on their trip to the Philippines, they took a casual trip in Australia. Everything seemed going smoothly according to his plan but the odds aren’t on his favor and everything they planned swiftly changed.

Rare Kind

As Emmy followed Jake’s suggestion of consulting to her GP immediately to know the cause of the lump on her neck, the couple received a result that they did not hope to get. Unfortunately, Emmy has a rare type of thyroid cancer which makes her one of the youngest person in the country to have it. The saddest part on knowing this is that it has already spread on her spine, lungs, liver, and bones. The doctor said it was incurable. 

Dedication

When they rekindled their love in 2015, they thought of a happy life that is full of plans and dreams. Jake and Emmy are so ready to conquer all the challenges along with working on reaching their dreams as a couple. They’ve set the bar high for their plans but Emmy’s medical results quickly changed the lover’s goals. 

No Symptoms

Even before Jake discovered the lump on Emmy’s neck, she was already complaining about not feeling well on her bowel. She once mentioned in an interview that there are times she needed to empty her bowel for every 15 minutes and it is painful and tiring. She also mentioned that her neck was never really her concern until her boyfriend, Jake noticed it. 

Not Giving Up

After getting caught off guard by this devastating news, Jake immediately left everything behind and went to Britain to be with the love of his life. This childhood sweetheart who rekindled their love after almost a decade are only been reunited for 6 months when the sad news came up. Jake’s finally with Emmy in Britain and the couple believed there’s more to their love story. 

The Start Of A Tough Journey

To Jake and Emmy, this is a new chapter of their lives. Jake never left Emmy’s side and guaranteed that she will feel all Jake’s love and support during her battle with cancer. Despite of this challenging life situation, Emmy never failed to show how an optimistic person she is and how cancer cannot take away her big smiles. 

Support System

Except for her loving boyfriend, Jake, all of their friends and families are showing tremendous love and support towards Emmy. At this time, she said that she was never been more happy and she considered herself to be “the luckiest lady in the world” because she was surrounded with people who made her feel more positive and blessed. 

It Continues

Emmy was taken into Royal Marsh Hospital where she was diagnosed of the rare type of thyroid cancer which made the couple utterly surprised. The hospital told them that if Emmy’s disease is discovered earlier than it was the spread of cancer might be mitigated. This news made Emmy’s heart sank as she hoped they’ve known the disease earlier and had the chance to recover.

More And More Bad News

In 2016, they are reunited for 6 months and Jake even planned for a proposal on their trip to the Philippines. Because of this devastating news, there were few change of plans. The couple thought that the diagnosis is the worst news at all but when the Doctors also told Emmy that she cannot have kids anymore, she was more devastated as her dream to give Jake young ones will not be happening anymore.

No More Waiting

Since Jake’s plan of fairy-tail-like proposal to Emmy has been postponed for a couple of weeks, but he could not wait any longer. He chooses to turn the little promise he wrote to Emmy before into reality by proposing to Emmy in a bed with a cup of tea. 

Starting The Journey

Some might think that the Jake Coates and Emmy Collett’s love story would be put to an end when Emmy’s diagnosed with a rare type of cancer. Nope, that was just a chapter of their life and they are now ready for a new beginning as Emmy said “yes!” to Jake’s proposal. Despite the variety of treatments she needed to take, these childhood sweethearts began to plan their biggest and most awaited day, their wedding.

Their Big Adventure

Unlike any other couple, Jake and Emmy decided to set aside the negativity of the devastating news and to look on the lighter part of what’s happening to their lives. Emmy once said that “You never knew what’s around the corner…” so she had set her life motto to “to smile, to love, and to be kind.” Despite what’s happening to her, she is the living proof of her life motto. 

Living Life

Emmy’s going under a lot of treatment to fight the cancer she had. According to her doctors, one of her treatment requires her to stay out of sun for medication. Since Emmy is an optimistic and out-going person, she didn’t let cancer to hold her back.

The Motto

She was told to stay out of the sun for her medication but due the undying love and support from her family and friends, it made Emmy live her life to the fullest. The couple managed to enjoy a quick Dubai get-away for five days. 

Charity Event

We all know that Emmy Coates is an optimistic person and she wouldn’t let the negativity to take over her life. Instead of worrying, she devoted her life to become more active and healthy. She and Jake even started a fundraising venture for Royal Marsden Hospital.

The Mission

Jake and Emmy was an active cyclist. This lovely couple completed a 1,242 miles ride using a bike starting from London to Copenhagen. They decided to do this as a fundraising venture for Royal Marsden Hospital. Jake and Emmy managed to raise over £140,000 or $195,000. They also marked this fundraising venture as a success as they decided to have a matching bicycle tattoo on their arms.

The Best Day Of Their Lives

Despite all the separations, long-distance relationship, and life challenges Jake and Emmy encountered, they’re finally going to have the best day of their lives as they walk down the aisle and exchanged their vows in September 2016.

But There’s More

There are a lot of things the soon-to-be Mr and Mrs. Coates couldn’t control their lives but this dream wedding of theirs is an exception.  Both of them planned really hard and were looking forward for this wedding. On an interview, Jake admits that on a night before their wedding, he couldn’t just sleep as he keeps on thinking that he was about to marry his “lobster”, his love of his life, Emmy.

In Good Times And Bad

The story of Jake Coates and Emmy Collett received more attention than they were expecting. The couple has touched and inspired millions of people. Emmy, as a professional primary school teacher, expressed her passion for writing and teaching and used her treatment period to be productive as she wrote children’s books they called “Tara and Tyrone”.  

Receiving Awards

As Jake and Emmy successfully conducted a fundraising event, their charity works are being recognized as they donated the money to the hospital where Emmy is being diagnosed. Jake had received an award of ITV Fundraiser of the Year at the Britain Awards. Meanwhile, Emmy did something that touched a lot of lives. 

Blogging Her Way Through

Emmy started to share her inspiring story to everyone through her blogging. She wanted to express her heart-wrenching journey as she battled against cancer. Little did she know this simple act of sharing will touch and inspire people.

Friends And Memories

Leona Greenwood is Emmy’s best friend. Just like every families and friends who knew Emmy, she had love and supported her through her fight against cancer. These best friends celebrated Leona’s wedding, and to show Leona’s support to Emmy, she join a marathon for cancer awareness and also gave out bracelets on her wedding day.

Friends And Memories

Expanding

We all knew that Emmy and Jake didn’t let any negativity to hold them back on achieving their dreams. They still pursued to become parents and to form a family together. Due to Emmy’s bad condition, the doctors have told them that she couldn’t bear a child anymore, but that won’t stop them. Surrogating is an option they saw to start achieving their dream to become parents.

Making Use Of Their Time

.As they made an announcement about surrogating, a lot of women who knew their story are volunteering to aid Jake and Emmy’s. The reproductive specialists took enough samples of embryos to guarantee the success of bringing their child. The future may not be clear for the couple yet they made it certain that they wanted to start expanding their small family.

Blast From The Past

Jake and Emmy’s heartfelt story has reached and touched a lot of people. One of them was an old classmate of Emmy named Liz Begg. Liz was a neighbor to the couple, she knew Emmy and Jake but they are not that acquainted. Liz was one of the females who reached out to the couple to volunteer and they decided to meet.

Real-Life Angel

Jake and Emmy met with Liz a lot of times before they decide to finally move to the implantation procedure. They did this in order to make sure that she was the perfect surrogate mother for their firstborn. They’ve been doing this while Emmy is still in her chemo treatment.

The Wait

Since Emmy and Jake decided to accept Liz as the surrogate mother, the three of them hoped for a successful result. Three weeks later after the implantation, the pregnancy test resulted in positive. They were all happy as the child will also symbolize Emmy’s life in the future. 

Expert In The Field

Jake’s profession is very useful to the current state of her “lobster” as he aids Emmy with her stitches and injections. He also made sure to run few check-ups on her to guarantee that she is safe and is out of danger every day. This is the kind of help Jake wanted to do wholeheartedly but it also breaks his heart that she needs to answer her lobster’s complicated questions.

The Most Difficult Part

Just like any partner would feel, Jake was grateful to support anything that Emmy needs. His knowledge in his profession helped him to become Emmy’s strong support system throughout her journey. What makes him hurtfully sad on this is when he also needs to tell Emmy the truth about how worse is her condition.

Professional

Even though it makes him sad, he’s more willing to do his role for Emmy’s sake. His profession as a doctor helped him a lot to easily understand what phase Emmy is going through her medication. 

Incredible News

The implantation process was a success which made Jake, Emmy, and Liz back together. After a couple of weeks waiting, the three were utterly happy as the pregnancy tests turned out positive. This was the moment the couple really saw Liz Begg as their real-life angel. 

A New Chapter

Liz Begg reminisced that despite all the challenging instances and series of treatments and medications, Jake and Emmy were astonished on how the odds are now favoring them. She also mentioned how she saw Emmy’s eyes flickering with joy when she announced that the pregnancy tests we’re all positive.

Forever And Always

Emmy’s life is slowly drifted away from her after seeing Liz’s pregnancy results. As her eyes began to shut, Jake never left on her side. She peacefully passed away on June 16, 2017. Emmy’s 18-month fight against cancer is now finally at rest. 

His Everything

Jake mentioned on one of his interviews that Emmy was his reason for getting up inspired every morning and to become a better person every day. Even though he’s at lost, their baby, on Liz’s wombs, is now what makes him go. 

Keeping His Chin Up

Jake was completely devastated after losing the love of his life, Emmy. It breaks his heart, even more, when he found out that their little angel wouldn’t be born as Liz’s surrogate pregnancy was unsuccessful. Since the reproductive specialist took enough samples, Liz became selfless and tried a couple more times to carry on with the plans the three of them made but it was no use. 

 

Greatest Loss

Jake Coates took Emmy as his everything. He admitted on one of his interviews that there’s no day he didn’t think of his late lover or didn’t miss her. It’s just everything makes him remember Emmy. Jake may be completely at loss, but he just convinced himself that their little angle chooses to be in heaven with its mother. A lot of challenging things happened to Jake Coates but fate has still something on its sleeve. 

First Page News

The passing of Emmy Collett-Coates have reached a lot of people so does their heart-wrenching yet uplifting life story; it even became a headline in Britain. Even though Emmy’s up in heaven, the news and stories about Jake’s life also made it in the news. Jake mentioned in an interview that he will always miss his “lobster”, however, just almost a year later, he found himself in love with another girl.

Honoring Her

Emmy and Jake created a fundraising venture in 2016 which turned out to be a success as they raised as much as $195,000 for charity donations at Royal Marsden Hospital. However in 2018, Jake pledge to continue to create this kind of venture by attending 10 marathons for a certain period of months to raised profit in the memory of his late wife and for the institution that helped her. 

A New Change

As Jake Coates lost his wife and child, he travelled a lot of international locations to aid himself to move forward. This was the time he met Jenna Selby, an event planner he met in one of his travels in Iceland. Jake tried to rebuild his life as he uploaded a photo of them together. Apparently, his social media timeline went from the memory photos of his wife to his new girl. 

Strange Resemblance

Jake made an announcement that he’s moving on by uploading a photo of him and Jenna together. Everyone commented that Jenna has the resemblance of his late wife, Emmy. A lot of people called her as “Emmy’s look-a-like”. Jake was supported by few on his new life with Jenna, however, some give him criticisms as well. 

Controversial

Upon receiving a lot of love and support from people who witnessed Jake and Emmy’s love story, there was also a vast of criticisms and hate toward his life decision. Only 6 months after Emmy’s passing, he found his love with Jenna and he was criticized on how fast he moved on. One of them was Emmy’s sister, Sophie. 

Doing His Best

Everybody knew that Jake was the one who’s completely devastated with the loss of his wife and child. He managed to convince himself to gather the strength to move forward in life. Jake said that a lot of people, who doesn’t personally know him, might leave a harsh comment on his decisions but he wouldn’t let that hatred to foster in his new life. 

No Negative Vibes

Jake, a 32-year-old widowed husband has nothing left to do but to move forward on his life. He said on one of his interviews that “The odd negative comments that have been written (by people that don’t know me or have any understanding of my life or what I have been through) have been deleted because I don’t have any space in my life for negativity.”

Unexpected

A lot of unpredictable things had happened to Jake’s life and meeting Jenna was one of it. Their unexpected meeting made him become alive again and be back on his tracks. Jenna really helped him to move forward. 

New Support System

Jake’s love story had taught him the importance of living your life to the fullest while enjoying every second it. He will be forever grateful for having an Emmy in his life, there are no doubts, and Emmy was already a part of him. To Jake, meeting Jenna is different, and Jenna became her support system after all these tragedies. 

Special Relationship

Jake and Emmy planned to become parents with the help of Liz Begg. However, after multiple attempts, the surrogating plans were never a success. Being with Jenna, Jake happened to experience to become a father to Jenna’s little boy. He might not be able to experience it with his first love, Jenny is aiding her in every other way.

Meaningful

The rollercoaster-type of life situations Jake had with Emmy had definitely taught him to value and cherish the time with he’s going to spend with Jenna and her little kid. They were happy and enjoying the time they are spending with one another.

Pay It Foward

Spending most of his life and his time with Emmy gained him a lot of knowledge about things such as cancer and recoveries. He used this together with his knowledge and experience as a professional doctor to create a mission where he volunteered regularly at the hospital institution that took care of his late wife.

Art And Helping

Aside from aiding the cancer patients in Royal Marsden Hospital, Jake also opened his heart to share and teach the young patients his knowledge in arts and managed to run an art class. Jake became totally selfless when doing things to remember and honor his late wife.

Giving To Others

Jake’s life experiences made him understand how the cancer patients are struggling on their fight against the disease as well as the family members of them. He did his utmost best to volunteer in the medical institution where he and Emmy spent most of her last days. Jake also uses his Instagram as a channel to raise awareness and to share his uplifting life experiences.

The Announcement

After the passing of Emmy Collett, Jake pledged to run 10 marathons as an endeavor for honoring his late wife, raising awareness, and profits for Royal Marsden Hospital. As he uses his social media account to inspire people, some have supported him and donated nearly $9,000 to his fund that he called “The Emmy Coates Fund”.

His Successful Mission

Jake was truly a man of his word as he finished 9 marathons in just 2 months. Jake have pledged to run 10 but completing 9 in a short period of time was enough for him to achieve his objectives to raise profits and awareness. He said that it was all worth it since it was all for honoring Emmy. 

Passing Time

During the time of Emmy’s treatment period, she made sure that it was all productive so she wrote a children’s book she entitled “Tara and Tyrone”. This book was an outcome of her passion and love for teaching as she were a professional primary school teacher in London. 

The Inspiration for Tara And Tyrone

Jake and Emmy, we’re known for their fundraising venture in 2016 with the use of a bike and a trailer where they travelled a 2000-kilometre route from London to Copenhagen. The children book Emmy wrote was inspired by this venture. Tara and Tyron were fictional characters where a bike and a trailer go on an adventure together. 

A Business Venture

Since Jake had the talent in arts, he did the illustrations for Emmy’s children book, Tara and Tyrone. Emmy’s passion and excellence in teaching young are her inspiration while creating this literature while undergoing medication.

Her Legacy

While Emmy was in series of treatments for her medication, she did lot let any time go to waste as she used the treatment period as an opportunity to showcase her love and passion for teaching kids. She managed to create two Tara and Tyrone novels; Tara and Tyrone – Stuck in and The Mud and Tara and Tyrone – Pedro The Pump

Almost There

Before Emmy’s passing, she left the third book of Tara and Tyrone unfinished. This third novel is entitled, Tara and Tyrone – Lost at Sea. Since Emmy did not have the opportunity to finish her third novel, Jake decided to do the finishing as well as the illustrations as the usual. 

Honoring Her Memory

Jake did everything to honor the memory of his late wife. He uses all his platforms and skills to raise awareness for cancer. He did admit that by doing so, he misses the love of his life even more and there are no days that he skipped talking to her. 

A Piece Of Advice

As Jake really learned a massive life lesson with his shared life with Emmy, he came up with a mantra that he wanted to share with people under his scope of influence…“Go to your husband or your wife. Your partner or your lover. Embrace them. Hold them that little bit longer….”

Carrying On

Jake Coates managed to move forward and decided to utilize his life and do what he loves. Everything he’s doing is a well document on his Instagram as he shares his new passion, taking care of animals and focusing on art. He even decided to go beyond his field of expertise.

2 Years

Two years after Emmy’s passing, Jake posted a photo of his late beloved wife as he recollects how grateful he is being Emmy’s other half and how he thinks about her late wife every day. Jake also shares how we should be also looking on the lighter side as unfortunate incidents taken on our lives. It’s wonderful how his outlook changed. 

Forever Remembered

Emmy’s story has touched a lot of heart more than she could imagine. Even after her passing, her friends, families, and lover continued to create and support charities in her name. It was amazingly surprising how a simple and optimistic woman like Emmy could inspire millions.  

An Artist

As Jake Coates managed to move forward, he also decided to go out of his field of expertise as he focused more on doing his arts. We can all recall that he once opened an art class in a medical institution to help the young patients who were once in the same condition as his wife. After shifting, he became an artist and commissions on a regular basis. 

Animal Lover

It can be seen on the Jake and Emmy’s social media accounts the couple is both an animal lover. As he pursued his art career, Jake thought of creating a children’s book where the love of him and his wife for their pets will be showcased. Jake mainly creates portraits of dogs and are all posted on his social media accounts.

Molly

Jake and Emmy have a dog-child named Molly. Molly is a brown poodle the couple both love. They were sometimes taking Molly together on their adventure, trips, and spend their time together. Jake mentioned that sometimes, he thinks of Emmy’s presence through their dog-chil, Molly.

Dedicating Art

Jake’s artworks are all can be seen in his social media account. Recently, he illustrated a chimpanzee and the arts were delivered to Florida where the subject of the art is located.  The chimp’s name is Lombani. Even though he shifted his career, it’s amazing to hear that he’s excelling in both. 

 

Emmy’s Last Days

“Smile, love, and be kind.” This is the motto Emmy had left for her loved ones as she passed away. Emmy did spend her remaining time together with her husband. She was completely happy to know that she was loved and supported by many throughout her journey. The motto she left will not be the only thing everyone can remind her of, it was also her smiles and her loving memories.