Communication and making time to be intimate – or just hold hands – have been an essential part of Jules and Laura’s marriage
Names: Laura and Jules Jackel
Years together: 19
Occupations: writer and GP
When she was working as a waitress at Sydney’s Customs House in 2001, Laura Jackel remembers scanning her upcoming shifts with nervous anticipation. “I’d be like, ‘Please let me be working with Jules’.” The 22-year-old backpacker from the UK was almost at the end of her Australian trip but one of the barmen had caught her eye. “He had a cheeky look about him and there was instant chemistry,” she remembers.
