{"id":204,"date":"2012-03-07T04:40:34","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T04:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.friendsmatchme.com\/blog\/?p=204"},"modified":"2012-03-07T04:48:10","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T04:48:10","slug":"real-life-love-story-behind-the-movie-the-vow-kim-krickitt-carpenter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.friendsmatchme.com\/blog\/204\/real-life-love-story-behind-the-movie-the-vow-kim-krickitt-carpenter\/","title":{"rendered":"Real life love story behind the movie “The Vow”, Kim & Krickitt Carpenter"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Hollywood story “The Vow”, out in theatres now,\u00a0is actually\u00a0inspired by the 1996 book “The Vow”, the real life love story of Kim and Krickitt Carpenter.\u00a0 Different details, but the same persistence\u00a0and dedication of the husband to rekindle his wife’s love for him,\u00a0to get her to remember him after a car accident wipes out all her memories of him.\u00a0 The method\u00a0–\u00a0through making new memories and starting ‘date night ‘ all over again.\u00a0 Rachel McAdams plays Krickitt as Paige in the movie “The Vow”, and Channing Tatutm plays Kim as Leo.\u00a0 The book is being re-released with the movie.<\/h3>\n

Driving to family for Thanksgiving in 1993, their first one as a married couple, Kim and Krickitt\u00a0got struck by a two-truck collision car accident that put Krickitt in a coma for weeks.\u00a0 Doctors said she had less than a one percent chance to live, and if she did, she would be a vegetable.\u00a0 Krickitt did wake up, and beat the odds.\u00a0\u00a0It was a struggle, but she had her devoted husband by her side, not giving up on her and the love they have together.\u00a0\u00a0She regained her cognitive abilities…but had some amnesia.\u00a0 She couldn’t remember\u00a0 the past 18 months of her life – the time period that she met and got to know Kim.\u00a0 When the nurse asked, “Who’s your husband?”, she replied, “I’m not married”.\u00a0 In an interview with Dr. Phil, Kim said that at first his goal was to get\u00a0his wife back exactly like she was when they got married.\u00a0 But then he found that doesn’t matter.\u00a0 They could build new memories and he could love something new about Kim every day, and they could grow together.\u00a0 Change isn’t bad.\u00a0 <\/span>Kim and Krickitt are now happily married in New Mexico, with two kids.<\/span><\/h3>\n

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When someone’s the one, they’re the one.<\/span><\/h3>\n

Find the one for you on Friends Match Me, the best free dating site and Facebook dating app.\u00a0 Just click on the top right blue ‘Login with Facebook’ button to join!<\/span><\/h3>\n

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The Hollywood story “The Vow”, out in theatres now,\u00a0is actually\u00a0inspired by the 1996 book “The Vow”, the real life love story of Kim and Krickitt Carpenter.\u00a0 Different details, but the same persistence\u00a0and dedication of the husband to rekindle his wife’s … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51],"tags":[116,113,114,52,118,112,115,117,111],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsmatchme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsmatchme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsmatchme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsmatchme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsmatchme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsmatchme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsmatchme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsmatchme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsmatchme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsmatchme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}