They met at a family party he was friends with her cousins. Plus they did the deed before they were married not there’s anything wrong with that buys kinda ironic that they spew all this wanting to keep an eye on their children. When they were creeping around when they were younger.
The hypocrisy of this couple is epic! The fact that they actually said that "Not In our home will a boy or girl be allowed to bring the opposite sex to their room." And yes I agree. BUT yet Tim had premarital SEX with Ella in TIM'S PARENTS home at a birthday party sleepover for his sister Rachel, his sister had invited Ella to the party, said the party was held in Tim's parents home! Imagine Tim and Ella having so little respect for his parents home and his sister's special event that they would do this. (SEE VIDEO BELOW go to @11:35 for the confession)
I also believe that at the time Ella was only 16 or 17. Ella met Tim in 2002, after Tim had been invited by Ella's cousin, Simon to a Family Event. Tim and this cousin use to go out to parties together. Simon, began inviting Tim to their family events and this is how Ella met Tim, at one these family events. But, once Ellas' Father heard about Tim, (this was BEFORE they slept together) both her parents banned Ella from seeing Tim, Yet Ella defied her Father in particualar and Tim & Ella began secretly dating until they finally slept together at Tims home at his sisters birthday party.
This is why BOTH Tim and Ella are hyper-vigalent to control the lives of their children. They have their OWN GUILT over what they did as teenagers and I believe they are fearful that the children especially the girls will do exactly what they did.
Notice the girls have no friends, no nurtured aspirations, no outside interests that allow them to be independent from Tim and Ella.
WHY? Because both Tim and Ella are afraid they will end up defying them the same way both Tim disrespected his own parents home, by sleeping with a girl right under their roof and likewise Ella defied her Father even after he told her not to see Tim, because he did not consider Tim marriage material... yet she and continued for 5 years to leave her home go out and have sex with Tim until her Father finally gave permission for Tim and Ella to get married.
After seeing the "How we met" video and then the video where Ella's Father talks about the deep pain Ellas defiance caused him, yet Ella's Father explained that his love for her had allowed him to forgive her and then eventually accept Tim. I had to unsubscribe, mainly because Tim never apologized to Ella's Father. Jobless, degree-less, aimless Tim says in that video that he felt he was a catch and could not understand why her Father did not like him. What Father would want their daughter with a man with no GCSE, no job history and no career plans! Tim even years later seemed to have little understanding as to why Ellas' Father was so hurt... Tim had taken his daughters virginity, even though Ella had given it up willingly, but Ella's extended family had brought Tim in and treated him like a member of the family BEFORE they slept togther and Tim knew they were deep into religion and Tim repaid them be being a "fox in the hen house."
This is why they keep insisting the Grimwade Family has to STAY TOGETHER, do everything together, (...imagine 5 girls in one bedroom...even in a university dorm 5 girls don't share a room!!!) ...
The fact is Tim and Ella are afraid their kids will be defiant just as they were, so they overcompensate by trying to CONTROL every aspect of the children lives.
( GO TO @11:35 Tim and Ella talk of having pre-marital sex at Tim's parents home.)