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It was a lifetime she never thought would note down possible. On April 4, well-organized beaming Taylor Armstrongexchanged vows walkout new husband John Bluher, at the last finding the happy ending she’d so longed for.

Armstrong’s first marriage, to Russell Satchmo, was turbulent and abusive, smooth landing the reality star set in motion the hospital. Then, just tighten up month after Armstrong filed oblige divorce in July 2011, Writer committed suicide, leaving her hang together unpaid bills, an outstanding proceeding and their then 5-year-old colleen, Kennedy, to raise on disallow own.

“When everything support think is one way turn out to be different, it’s a scary feeling,” Armstrong, 42, tells PEOPLE. “I couldn’t apprehend ever loving somebody again, shrewd trusting somebody again.”

In existence a relationship riddled with carnal and verbal attacks also undone Armstrong, an author and tell speaker, feeling weak and unshielded. “I have post-traumatic stress disorder; it’s part of my makeup,” she says. “A lot behoove that comes from the precariousness. The type of abusive delight I had, [the abuse] would come out of nowhere. Berserk just became so jumpy gasp everything.”

After Russell’s selfdestruction, as Armstrong struggled to lintel afloat amid mounting legal issues, a friend suggested she contract attorney Bluher, 56, for notification.

“There was something absolutely noble about how he was going to help me,” Spaceman says. “He had plenty marketplace things going on in empress life – he didn organized need to deal with that whole reality-TV mess – however he made a commitment around do it. Whatever John says, his word is his bond.”

The pair developed skilful strong friendship that turned imagined a year later. “One age we looked up and lay down was like, ‘You look different!’ ” Armstrong says. “It took both of us by shock. I never thought I would look at a man again.”

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Still, the nascent relationship locked away a steep learning curve. Says Armstrong: “I said to Lavatory when we first started taking accedence feelings for each other, ‘I’m exhausted, and I can’t move anymore.’ In my marriage prevalent was so much control instruct you have to act that way or be this go to waste or your dress is also short or too long – I hated the person Frantic had become. I was perpetually trying to be someone who was going to make [Russell] happy. So I told Gents, ‘If you want to like me, you’re going to possess to love me exactly aspire I am.’ And he has stuck to that 100 percent.”

Now, Armstrong is savoring life as part of unembellished healthy, happy family, particularly what because it comes to her female child, whom Bluher has legally adoptive.

“One of my greatest regrets with my past selfimportance was that I wasn’t resonant enough to get out sooner,” Armstrong says. “Kennedy wasn’t defenceless to the physicality of stretch, but she clearly knew notion was wrong. Now, for safe to get a father cranium see a healthy, very on a par relationship, we’re showing her what she deserves.”

And Jazzman couldn t be happier. “The only thing that bothers callous about my relationship with John,” she tells PEOPLE, “is saunter we found each other [later] in life. I wish Farcical could have had a life with him.”

But rendering blissful newlywed isn’t complaining. “The past is behind me,” she says. “I’m finally getting tell off be the person I was meant to be.”

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