These are all true.
1) Mid-1940's. She'd spent the war typing letters to generals on a typewriter at a military base. He'd spent it so sick the draft didn't even want him. They ended up at Asbury College together. He was a clown; she was a beauty. On their second date, he proposed in a graveyard. She said no. Fifty years later, he sat beside his granddaughter, his eyes alight with wonder as he watched his bride walk across a room. "Look at that woman!"
2) She was a smart girl. He was a dude with long hair that she and her friends simply called "fine guy," a guy so fine you wouldn't even expect him to look your way when you ran into him on campus. The smart girl and the fine guy have three kids today.
3) She had pretty much the worst thing happen that can. It was the 1960's, and the man she married, the man of her dreams, well, turned out he didn't like women after all, that the marriage was a lie. She had it annulled secretly and went home, a heartbroken, unmarried 30-year-old. But then she met Jim, and the first time she saw him, she knew.
She had a second chance, and she never stopped saying how much she loved him until she passed away.
4) He was a minister, and he was dead-set on the bachelor life. She was a minister's daughter, and the first time she went out with him, she knew he was the one. He didn't. He broke up with her, and he broke her heart. Ten months later, he knew, and she gave him another chance. 30 years on, they never go a day without laughing together.
5) She told God she wasn't interested in any more romance, unless He made a man fall at her feet. Funny how those northern winters are. A little while later, a great guy slid on the ice and landed in front of her. Their daughter got married last year.
6) She was ready, so ready she prayed that a man would come into her life by the end of Saturday. The weekend rolled around, and no one called. Finally, 10 p.m. Saturday night, a guy she vaguely knew called about business. Oh, and he asked if she might want to have dinner. Seven years on, they have dinner every night with their two little boys.
Love stories don't have to be big or epic or grand to be great. Most of the people above are in my family; the others are friends I know very well. In a world of low commitment, fractured lives, and people who don't understand selflessness, I am astonished and delighted every day by the people around me whose love is not loud and flashy, but strong and secure, people who hold hands just as tightly through the bad times as the good times.
When my great-grandmother was in her mid-90's, she had dementia. We grieved the loss of her sparkle and the things that had made her an exceptional human being. And yet, as if Nicholas Sparks's
The Notebook was somehow true, weaved in and around and through her incoherent stories and unconnected rambling was the name of her husband, the love of her life who had been gone for thirty years. When nearly everything was gone, he was somehow there, to the point that she imagined he was with her in body.
I don't know what my love story will be some day, but I sure hope it's that good.
What's your personal love story or your favorite true-life love story?
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Mine... after literally having such a messed up childhood, full of death and destruction... I made on ebad decision after another throughout my teenage years, down to getting married my senior year to someone that just couldn't keep it in his pants, so we split after we had two children, our daughter was only 3 months old and then I picked another "great" guy, hit me with a bed frame and I ran, literally down the road to get away and never looked back. Lost all my drive to ever find anyone to be with after seeing one disasterous relationship after another, including mine. Then I met someone I thought was terrific... only to discover he was just not right in the head... maybe it was because of my moms disasterous marriages, learned behavior. I tried to make it work for 7 years, finally after being completely ignored, I left.
I met my soon to be husband at work the very first day. We became fast friends and he is perfectly imperfect and wonderful... my partner in everything. He loves my kids and I love his daughter and not a day goes by that I don't thank god for him becaus eI had literally give up all hope... simply didn't care if I ever dated anyone or had sex again.
Now I couldn't be happier every day of my life and look forward to getting married.
@malissa1578@xanga - Wow, thanks for sharing.
I think I love the story that was on xanga a few years ago? I forgot the name... but it was narrated by a guy and how he was not cherishing his taiwanese girlfriend until she left to taiwan. Finally he realized that she is the one and go chase her. :)
@prettykay04@xanga - Aww, yeah, that was really sweet.
I made a friend freshman year of college...actually I didn't like him much at first, because he partied a bit and I was a goody-two-shoes. But we liked the same books and movies and rock climbing and camping and always seemed to have something to talk about...it wasn't too long before I wanted him, but he was with someone, and as soon as he got over her he was with someone else. It was never me. Eventually, I told him, and he didn't reciprocate, but what should have pushed us apart drew us together instead, just not in the way I wanted. I can't recount the tears and frustration and the number of times I told myself it was over, and I can't explain why over the course of four years it never was.
But last month he turned to me and said "We're not just friends, are we?"
And it was all worth it.
@prettykay04@xanga - I remember that, it had all the pictures and everything. That was the sweetest story ever.
Funny story.
My mom and dad were on the same military base. My dad saw my mom for the first time just walking pass, and he thought to himself, "That's the kind of woman I wanna marry." My mom was lost and then turned to his group and asked if someone could take her to the cafeteria. He immediately volunteered. They've been married for 25 years now!
The funny part.
In 8th grade I saw this boy walking from the cafe to the library while I was sitting outside my building with friends. When I first saw him, I though, "That's the kind of guy I wanna marry," and then I wondered, "Is this what my dad thought when he saw my mom?" We became friends throughout high school, and then admitted to each other our freshmen year in college that we had a crush on each other freshmen year in high school. He didn't even ask me out. One day I was just talking and then when I paused he went straight in to kiss me. That's how he "asked me out". He proposed at the same spot and we're engaged. We'll be married in a year!
Unfortunately, I don't have any cute love-story to share.. :<
But I do have one about my ex and I and it's kinda sorta cute now that I think about it lol
He and I were friends from 1st - 3rd grade because he lived in the neighborhood and we had common friends. We went to the same church and everytime I turn to stare at him [yeah I know, creepy, right?!], I would find him staring back. But we were just friends back then, I mean really... I was in elementary school.. He still had cooties, for goodness sake!! lol
My family moved around alot - to another city for a good 2 years and then finally to the US in 2003. So we weren't as close. We didn't talk, but we exchange mails [traditional way of keeping contact] during Christmas or Vietnamese New Year. Things faded and after awhile, we forgot about our friendship.
Until the summer of 2009, when I went back to Viet Nam to visit my grandma and grandpa to find out that he was the new next-door neighbor. One funny story leads to the next and we hung out more. And one night, sitting under the stars [how cliché is that!], we exchanged notes.. I have no idea why we didn't just say what we wanted to say, but he wrote down his feelings and confessed that he likes me and the summer just reconnected us together..
After a month of romance with my old friend in Viet Nam, we went into a long-distance relationship when I returned to the US...
So this is where my story ends.. We broke up in October of that year. I know, I know.. It seems too good to end like that, but it was sort of a mutual break-up, so I guess it's fine...
But I cannot WAIT to start a new love-story that won't have an ending :)
my love story is more like, "#the awkward moment when the class nerd and that one ghetto dude start going out"
@luv_is_infinite - @Lyrical_L@xanga - @galliver@xanga - @malissa1578@xanga - awwwww! all the stories were touching! ^.^
the stories in the post made me tear. here's mine:
i was kinda awkward in my early childhood...i was the funny smart girl in the corner...basically...just ready for a challenge. one summer way back in 2003 i was part of a "smart program" getting us ready for high school...and at the time a card game called "spit" - a really fast paced game that can take forever to win - was really popular and i happened to be really good at it. jay was one of the spectators and decided to challenge me...well neither of us one the first day or the first week...or the first month...but we kept playing...talking...realizing that we had so many things in common. we were really young though...so it was only a blossoming friendship...
as the years went by though...we got closer...really close...we dated right through high school and my first year of college.
he's my best friend...forever...but he moved for a job opportunity in japan that looks pretty permanent...so it was mutually decided to take a "break"...it's become a ritual to stay in close contact though. ^.^
@hellstar0604@xanga - That's so sweet! I hope it works out in spite of the huuuge distance! My boy and I are 3 hours by bus apart right now and even that sucks. :/ Though it makes our time together so much sweeter :)
@haltija@xanga - like <3 it made me laugh a little (:
I
met my boyfriend in high school. He had just moved into the (tiny)
school system in 9th grade, and quickly took over as top of the class.
Everybody loved him just because he was so sweet and nice. Meanwhile, I
hid in the band room to get out of class and was too shy for boys to
like me.
We became friends in gym class after I was dramatically
hit in the eye during kickball and went to play tennis (where he
happened to be) instead, so then every gym class I played tennis with
him + friends instead of kickball. At my sweet sixteen my mom noticed
him paying a lot of attention to me (I was too oblivious) and kept
making comments about him. We became better friends in a couple years
and he took so long to ask me out since I was such a chicken, so he
couldn't tell if I liked him. In a very fairy-tale esque fashion he
asked me out the night of senior ball while we were both all dressed up,
and once my mom found out she was all, "FINALLY!!", and she reminds me
to "hold onto him" haha (:
Still together over a year and a half later. <3
@prettykay04@xanga - now I really want to read that article!!! I tried searching for it but I can't find it. If you find it, please send it to me!
@jzrocker@xanga - i'd like to read the article too!!! please someone find it =DDD
My daughter barely dated in HS. In college, I called her the 'one date wonder'. Guys would ask her out and she'd go. If she didn't like them right away, she never gave them a second chance. During her first couple weeks on the job right out of college, one of the I.T. guys in her office emailed her to see if she wanted to go out to lunch. She immediately emailed him back and said she didn't go out with guys she didn't know.
Then, 5 months later, her girlfriend asked her to go along to the Power and Light District...a Kansas City entertainment district..and, oh yes, the guy she'd turned down for a lunch date would be there. She went. Cupid's arrow hit the mark..and he got a second date..then a third, fourth, etc etc!! They have now been dating for 3 years and have a wedding day set next June.
He's a great guy who has proven how loyal he is and loving. We already feel he is a member of our family!!
I love these stories, and all the stories I've read in the comments! I can only pray God gives me someone; the right one. I pray I don't lose hope...
I loved this--so encouraging. True, selfless love is possible.
Also, this reminded me of the clips of elderly people sharing their love stories in "When Harry Met Sally". :)
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such a cute post
My true-life love story is quite long and detailed. And it's not over yet. I'm pretty sure I could write a series on our love story.
To make a long story short: Girl with boyfriend meets boy with girlfriend. Girl and boy notice they have a connection, though they haven't really talked much, they've just seen each other, and they go to the same church, and they work in Awana together and at the church fun fair, etc. Things start to get tough with the girl and her boyfriend, and they break up. Things start to get tough with the boy and his girlfriend, and they break up. A little while later the girl and the boy start talking. First it was just simple "how are you," "I'm good, how are you?" conversations. Then they started getting into more in depth conversations. The boy goes out on a limb and asks the girls father if he can take her out on a date. The father was reluctant, because he saw what her most recent break-up did, and he thought they were moving to fast. Despite that he said yes. The girl accepts the offer to go on a date. And now they have been together for almost 2 and a half years (officially), although they have been dating for almost 3 years.
I could write a book on how my boyfriend and I met.
Basically, we've always sat at lunch at school with each other, but I was always too shy to speak to him and ask his name. One day, he added me on Facebook, and we started talking more, and we hung out a lot. Eventually I fell for him, but I was so scared, so I turned around and dated someone else...but I knew I liked him... and as the relationship I was in crumbled, he was always there for me. I started falling more and more, and over the summer he dated another girl. I was upset, and I got a taste of my own medicine, but the next day, he told me he was in love with me, and when I got back home from vacation, he kissed me in the rain in a meadow, and ever since, we've been madly in love... I know I'm young but for some reason I feel he is the one. He and I have been dating for 9 months and I could never be happier. I'm glad we gave each other a second chance.