By Debbie Emery - Breaking Celebrity News Reporter

Robyn Gardner should have been at home on Monday celebrating her 36th birthday with her loved ones, but tragically the fate of the Maryland woman remains a mystery eight months after she vanished in Aruba.

“We always did something special like go out for dinner or on a romantic trip for her birthday,” Robyn’s heart-broken boyfriend Richard Forester told Breaking Celebrity News in an exclusive interview.

As previously reported , authorities arrested Gardner's traveling companion, 50-year-old Gary Giordano as he tried to leave Aruba last summer, after he reported Gardner had disappeared while snorkeling August 2. After a series of searches, neither Gardner's body or any related physical evidence was recovered, spurring a judge last December to order Giordano freed.

exclusive interview.

“My birthday is next week and we used to do joint celebrations. We’ve gone down to Miami for the weekend before, or gone out for a nice date night. Last year we went to Annapolis, which is a nice little sailing village and we went out on the water,” explained Forester.

Sadly, this April 23, Richard will be spending the night alone having a private toast to Robyn. “I am just going to have my own thoughts and prayers, she in my mind every day but today especially.”

With the anniversary of her disappearance looming,