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…
Read moreI was 16 and he was 30 but nothing could stop our love – Part 3
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
Read moreI was 16 and he was 30 but nothing could stop our love – Part 1
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
Read moreIf you do not love yourself how can you love another?
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,
Read moreIt all felt so right – it really was that simple
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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