True love, real people
True love stories of real couples: How they met and fell in love. All of our true love stories in one place.
~ ~ ~ If there was one thing that added a whole rainbow of color into Elie’s black-or-white view of life, it was when he first set eyes on Marlena and fell in love with her that same second, just as she was falling in love with him. Read this delightful true story of love at first sight that took place in a city photo-walk event which both lovebirds didn’t
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Sometimes love doesn’t come easy, but it does arrive. Sometimes you have to fight for it and it takes blood, sweat and tears, but it does survive. And it’s so, so worth it. This was how Bettina and Jean-Pierre managed to take this love and make it theirs. But destiny, as we all know, has a mind of its own. And sometimes the future is set in stone. Here is
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What if you think you’re happy…but you’re wrong? What if you were sad and lonely all along, And the only thing you measured, Was everyone else’s pleasure, And one day your heart refused to play along? Bettina’s story is one of placebo joy, painful awakening, despair, courage, strength, rebirth and finding your wings despite everything that happens in life. Childhood trauma, sadness, neglect, loneliness, losing herself in the process of
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If we are meant to be monogamous, why do so many people cheat on their partners? If we are meant to be polyamorous, why does it hurt to share your lover with another? The only sin here is not exploring your choices with sincere curiosity then honoring your truth with honesty and integrity. Elica and Amitayus did! Their final destination? The path of monogamy blessed in a beautiful Thai wedding.
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Why is it that people who are particularly loving and kind-hearted are so often the ones that end up mistreated and lonely? What becomes of them? Does destiny ever reward these believers who courageously stand their ground and open their hearts with faith every single time? Read the true love story of Sandi & Tim, two beautiful souls on two ends of the world who never stopped believing in love.
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Read the true love story of Katrina and Tamara and how they got in touch with their true selves and found true love, such a common occurrence. True love is precious, rare and miraculous. As Katrina also said, true love really will chip away at anything that needs to go – misconceptions, opposition from family, loneliness… everything. All one needs to do is open one’s heart, as well as mind…
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This is a beautiful story about how when you have courage, you have love. Read about Philip & Safiyyah who met on Twitter. Coming from very different backgrounds and religions, they had the courage to quit jobs, move continents and handle family opposition to make their love survive. Married four months after they met, they took the shortcut to happy ever after! What an incredible journey they have experienced. Read on…
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Perhaps we shouldn’t listen when people say, “Don’t talk to strangers.” Perhaps we should not only talk to them, but we should also take their advice and even invite them to stay in our house for a few days. Perhaps that’s how love comes into our lives. Read the crazy love story about how these two full-time hitchhikers, who unknowingly had the same dream, hitchhiked into each other’s lives… Names: Cynthia
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Names: Blaire & Chris Status: Engaged, (Updated 2018) Married. Been together since: May 2016 From Heartache to Big Break-ups Blaire: It was 2014 and I was living on a beautiful little boat in Vancouver, Canada. It was not the best of times as my long-term boyfriend and I had just broken up and I was quite disoriented. I didn’t know what I was doing with my life! Just at that time, I
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Names: Selma & Tayfun Status: Married Been together since: 2015 Life Before My Real Life… I got married and moved to the States from Turkey in 2003. Unfortunately, it was an unhappy marriage. We went our separate ways and got divorced in 2010. Everything about my life had to be built back from scratch. I was continents away from my family and this was a phase that I had to go through alone.
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Names: Emel & Alpay Status: Married Been together since: 1968 (This touching love story spans over 4 decades so we have divided it into 3 parts. Click for part 1 and part 2.) On the road to recovery… It was now 2005. By nature, Alpay was always full of life and bursting with energy. At work, they used to always consult him first before making any decisions. With the factory and his job now gone he
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Names: Emel & Alpay Status: Married Been together since: 1968 (This touching love story spans over 4 decades so we have divided it into 3 parts. For part 1 click here and part 3 click here.) Putting love into our lives every single day… The political and economic climate was changing in Turkey and we found ourselves dancing on the outskirts of a financial crisis. My son was attending a private high
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Names: Emel & Alpay Status: Married Been together since: 1968 How we met… I was in my last year of school in Istanbul Nisantasi High School for Girls. I must have been 15 or 16 and the year was 1965 or ’66. Back then, you were either in the maths or literature department. I was doing maths. I was an enthusiastic, happy student. I had many friends whom I loved
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UPDATED – Anita & David – The cynicism caused by years in unhappy relationships, wrong choices and bad experiences is not an easy one to get over. And how we are also influenced by memories of our childhood… It is difficult to keep the hope alive in an environment and past that has been so painfully arid. But when love has decided to make its way towards you there is
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Nobody likes a brake-up, especially when it comes at the end of deep, stormy, 8-year relationships. Add to that the respective ages of the people involved: both being above 40 and 50 at the time… But everybody loves a story that ends with finding true love and getting married 3 months after that. Read on for the true love story of Nur & Askin. Names: Nur & Askin
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Sometimes love begins with multiple challenges. Our anonymous story is about a lovely couple who were over 40 and 60 when they met. They were separated via jobs, culture and countries but joined via the heart. Great obstacles were on the way to their union. In this struggle between love and circumstance, guess which emerged victorious? Read on for this touching story of making the impossible possible with love. Names:
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Names: Cathy & Earle Status: Married Been together since: 1971 Cathy: It was August 1971. I met Earle when we started working for a mail machine company in Washington DC in the same department. I was the ‘important’ secretary of the big manager and he as the ‘lowly’ employee who used to answer service calls when someone had a technical problem like machine jams. We started on the same day, a Monday,
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Names: Meltem & Hakan Status: Married Been together since: 1996 We didn’t even notice each other for three years… Meltem: Hakan and I met in Ankara, Turkey, as we were both singers in a choir. We were both in committed relationships with other people at the time so we hardly even noticed each other for three whole years. As fate would have it, our relationships eventually came to an end and, just like
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Names: Metin & Vita Status: Married Been together since: 2014 Metin: I had just returned to Turkey from Thailand and was not in the best of places emotionally. I found I was staying home a lot, I was not feeling happy and could sense dark clouds above me. I was on Facebook one day talking to my friend Mustafa, who lives in New York. As we were chatting, I saw photos
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Names: Roxana & David Status: Married Been together since: 1999 Roxana: We met at work. We started working for Bose on the same day and met when we went for our orientation together – June 23rd, 1997. We exchanged our first words during our coffee break where we ended up sitting opposite each other. We discovered we had similar backgrounds with his parents being Syrian-Lebanese and myself being raised in Dubai.
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Names: Esma & Eray Status: In a relationship Been together since: 2011 I have been involved in politics for over 30 years. My story begins during the elections. There were many meetings going on so my phone was always on, just in case. One night, early 2011, at 4:20 am I received a message. It was a beautiful poem of love. I was wondering who in the world would send
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Names: Figen & Kemal Status: Married Been together since: 1965 or 1993 Kemal: It was around 1965. I was 5 or 6 and we lived in Istanbul. Figen’s parents had just separated. My father decided to take them under his wings and into our home. There was Figen, her mother and her elder sister, who was my age. Figen was cross-eyed when she was a child and although her sister was considered
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Names: Nicole & Philip Status: Married Been together since: 1981 or 2011 It was 1981. I was living in Holland and was going to the USA for Christmas to spend it with my best friend Barbara. She wrote me a letter before I arrived saying she knew this really lovely guy and that we had to get together. She was telling me how gorgeous he was and apparently, she was telling
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Names: Carmen & Aaron Status: Married Been together since: 2012 Aaron: It was 14th July 2009. I was living in a villa in Dubai and we loved hosting theme parties. The theme this year was space and as one of the hosts, I was making a big effort with my costume and was dressed up as Buzz Lightyear. Carmen was dressed as a Martian girl. I spent most of the night
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Names: Eunjung & Yves Status: Married Been together since: 2011 Yves: I was having a challenging time during 2010. I had a breakdown and left behind absolutely everything that had defined me and my life up until that point and headed into a void, letting go of everything. I arrived in Kaua’i in Hawaii at the start of 2011. The traumatic phase I was in manifested itself physically and I
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Names: Monique & Quinton Status: Engaged, (Updated 2015) Married, (updated 2016) Became parents. Been together since: 2013 About 14 months ago a mutual friend sent me a message saying that one of his good friends, Quinton, was moving to Dubai, where I live. He asked if I could show him around. I said, “Sure!” He arrived a month before he was to move just to sign his contract. We met the day
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Names: Valentina & Leo Status: Widowed Been together since: 1966 or 1980 until 1997 I am not going to lie, my story has got twists and turns that I never imagined possible, life played cruel jokes on me and then showered me with blessings again. Looking back at the journey of my true but crazy love, I smile and the warmth fills my heart, because I know that I did
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Names: Refika & Rudi Relationship status: Married Been together since: 2005 Our story began in December 2005. Actually, the universe had apparently started working for us before that but I had no idea! It had become a regular annual event to have dinner with our salsa group every December. That year we were running late. I kept urging them to arrange it. We finally got it organized at my dear
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Names: Ates & Gulsen Relationship status: Married Been together since: 1962 I was 17 and Ates was 23. We met in law school in Ankara, Turkey in 1962. Ates was climbing up the stairs and started talking to my friend who was standing next to me. He completely ignored me for quite a few minutes and for some strange reason I wished from the bottom of my heart for this young,
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Names: Gulay & Korky Status: Married Been together since: 2002 My husband Korky and I met in 2002 in a city that belonged to none of us, a city that I loved and he happened to hate so much, Ankara in Turkey. I was trying to be set up on a subtle blind date with a friend of my sister’s as I was in town for a few days and Korky was
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