They say if you truly love someone, let them go, and if they return, they’re meant to be yours. For Jenna and her now-husband Mitchell Brotherson, it seems fate played a hand in their unconventional reunion.
The pair met in June 2019 and went on to marry in September 2020, but Jenna ended their relationship at one point due to feeling “too overwhelmed with life.” Yet the day following the breakup took a dramatic turn.
Mitchell suffered a significant concussion trying a flip on Beaver Mountain in Utah after he miscalculated the jump. The accident resulted in him landing on his head and blanking out, only to come around to paramedics escorting him downhill, as he recounted to People magazine.
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“He was going off a jump and it was super icy. His feet went in front of him and so he went off the jump and landed on his head,” Jenna explained to the publication, describing the accident that led to Mitchell’s serious concussion. The aftermath saw him fail most of his classes for that semester and necessitated a leave of absence to assist his brain in recovering.
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According to reports, a concussion severely affected one man’s memory to such an extent that he completely forgot he had split from his partner Jenna. While in hospital, Mitchell apparently rang Jenna for a lift home, under the belief they were still an item.
“I’m like, ‘Why is he messaging me this? I just broke up with him,'” Jenna shared in a TikTok video. Speaking to People magazine, she said: “Mitch kept messaging me and trying to hang out after his concussion and I was confused as to why he would keep messaging me because we had broken up.
“I thought that maybe he took the statement of staying friends really seriously. It even was to the point when I told him that my roommates and I had a hard day and he came and brought us ice cream.”
Jenna expressed regret over ending the relationship, noting her ex was “kind and thoughtful” about her feelings and “just tried to help” rather than being angry or mean. After reconsidering the breakup, Jenna decided to give their relationship another shot.
“I was nervous to swallow my pride and ask if he would date again,” Jenna admitted to the publication, recalling how she received a text from Mitchell suggesting they hang out the day she got back from Spring break. “After hanging out with friends we chatted in the evening and I asked to get back together with him. That was when I realized he had no clue we even broke up,” she revealed.
“I told him about how we were in my car and what I said to him and what he said back,” she continued. “He told me he didn’t remember any of that except for chatting in the car. But he didn’t remember what we chatted about. He thought it was super funny and I was relieved. It made it easy to get back together because to him, we never weren’t together! ” Five months later, Jenna told People that Mitchell proposed to her at Big Cottonwood Canyon – the very spot where he told her that he loved her.
Three weeks later, they were married. “During my husband’s speech, he brought up not remembering the break up but how he is so grateful that it all worked out in the end,” Jenna recalls.
“We are both 27 now and when people ask us about our love story it’s our favorite part to tell. We really felt invisible strings pulling us together all along.”