True love, real people
Couples in long distance relationships that made it work.
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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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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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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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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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: 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: 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: 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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