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Nikki Haley has had an unconventional romantic path. Her marriage to Michael Haley had its share of oddities, including a name change that may have prompted suspicions and a meet-cute in which her husband was courting someone else. But as it turns out, even though Michael was apparently in love with someone else when he met Nikki for the first time, Nikki continued to play the waiting game, which would thankfully come to an end quite quickly, as she stated in her book Can’t Is Not an Option.
When it comes to Michael’s name, the couple’s love tale takes an unexpected turn. Originally named William Michael Haley, he went by «Bill» throughout his early years. However, Nikki, who is always the one to make decisions, felt that Bill didn’t match her vision of her husband. «Everyone who knows him before I did knows him as Bill, and everyone who met him after I did knows him as Michael,» she explained in her book, PEOPLE reported.
