However, their partnership and subsequent divorce almost weren’t.

Sophie decided she would reach out after their impromptu reconnection, sending Justin an email.

And I didn’t answer it.

Justin Trudeau and Sophie Grégoire Trudeau

I didn’t delete it.

She told Maclean’s, “I was kind of like, ‘Okay, he has no class.’

But fate would throw them together again in a chance meeting on the street a few months later.

Justin Trudeau and Sophie Grégoire Trudeau

And we both cried like babies.”

At least Sophie will never have to wonder “what if” she had sent that email.

They made a great couple and gained three wonderful children from their time together.

Justin Trudeau and Sophie Grégoire Trudeau

As they say, “Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”