Mitch Samuels

Mitch Samuels is a character on the TV Generation drama series, Our Lives.

He is the second husband of Andrea Watkins-Samuels.

Mitch works as a real estate managing broker at Copeland-Bassett Realty in downtown Oakridge, Illinois.

From the 1st season to the 3rd season, he worked at Copeland Bros. Realty in Mount Larkin, Illinois before it merged with Bassett Realty.

Early Life
Mitch was born on January 15, 1969 in Oakridge, Illinois at 5:15 a.m. He is the second son of Christina and Isaac Samuels. His older brother, Gregory was 3 years old when he has born. He attended an unnamed nursery school and Ridgeway Elementary School.

When he was 6 years old, the Samuels family moved next door to the Carson family and he became friends with Andrea. It wasn't until their teen years that Mitch and Andrea's relationship became romantic. After attending their school homecoming dance in the 10th grade, the two of them started dating each other which lasted throughout the remainder of their high school years.

Mitch attended Clarkson Junior High School (now called Clarkson Elementary School) and Oakridge High School (now called Oakridge Junior\Senior High School) where he graduated in 1987. After graduating from high school, he began attending the in,  studying business. He and Andrea tried to maintain a long-distance relationship, but after almost four months apart, they mutually decided to go their separate ways and ended their relationship.

During his sophomore year of college, Mitch met Jasmine Price; by his senior year, they were engaged. Mitch graduated from USI in 1991 with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Management. While in college, he did an internship at a real estate brokerage and worked at a record shop during his summer breaks.

After college, he and Jasmine moved to Crescent Valley, Illinois, got married and fraternal twin sons, Jake and Darien (born in 1993). He later became a real estate sales agent and went on to become a real estate broker. While living in Crescent Valley, they were neighbors with Hilary Davenport, who was a foster parent. Around 1996, Hilary was fostering Bridgette, Brendan and Ryan Thompson, who were 14 and 12 years old at the time. Bridgette would help Jasmine babysit Jake and Darien.

After learning that Hilary had gotten a job promotion that required her to move out of state and wouldn't be able to keep being a foster parent to the Thompson siblings, Mitch and Jasmine decided to start the process to become their foster parents.

By January of 1997, they became foster parents to Bridgette, Brendan and Ryan. The siblings were adopted in August of 1998. A year after the adoption was finalized, the Samuels moved to Mount Larkin, Illinois after Mitch gets a new job at Copeland Bros. Realty once he is certified as a real estate managing broker.

Around 2001, Jasmine was laid off from her job due to the company filing for bankruptcy which caused to become depressed and she turned to alcohol to cope with it. Mitch tried to intervene and get Jasmine help for her depression and alcoholism; however, Jasmine refused to get any help which put a strain on their marriage and caused frequent arguments between them. Eventually, it caused them to separate and later filed for divorce.

Although Jasmine later sought help, she decided to give up custody of Jake and Darien to Mitch. Afterwards, she moved out of state and cut off all contact with her family. In August of 2004, Mitch reunites with Andrea after he and his parents attend the funeral of Andrea's husband, Jason Watkins. After Jason's funeral, Mitch offers to help Andrea out with her children which rekindles their relationship and they start dating each other during the summer of 2005,

The day before Valentine's Day in 2006, Mitch proposed to Andrea which she accepted. They later moved into a new house together with their children.