I met Brian on a beach and we ended up talking for hours. I didn’t hear from him until a month later when I got a letter in the mail. I wrote back to him and we exchanged some beautiful letters for an entire year. We finally met a year later. For a year after that we communicated through emails, the following year we did phone calls. He paid for all my plane tickets to visit him, and he even moved out to Colorado for me for 2 years. It was wonderful while it lasted. Long distance 6 of the 8 years of our relationship! That was love. – Cathy C.
My Mom and Dad: He was a medical student, Jewish and from Brooklyn. She was the free spirited artist, also Jewish from Brooklyn. He was nervous and she wasn’t interested. Eventually, he got the courage to go see her at her pottery studio. He went in with his sheep dog. He was so nervous he kept knocking things off the shelves. She yelled at him: "What are you thinking bringing that dog in here!" And that was their romantic beginning! Finally, he did win her over. Next year will be 30 years. Going strong, best of friends, and truly meant to be. – Dorian T.
The best part of their story is their engagement: they went to NYC for a weekend vacation. They visited the Conservatory Lake in Central Park where you can rent small, motorized boats. He convinced her that renting one would be fun, and as they were joking on the side of the small lake in the middle of the big city, he gave her the control to reel the boat in. As the boat approached, she looked down and noticed the black box inside the boat. When she turned around, he was on his knee. - Rob F.
I met my fiance in the last class of our study abroad masters program in a small town in Ireland. It was the first time we met, and after talking for a while, we learned that we grew up in neighboring towns. We hit it off immediately and started dating soon after. Two years later, he gave me a trip to Ireland for my Christams present. He proposed there in the same town where we had first met in a beautiful rose garden! - Lindsey H.
I met my first love within the first week of starting college. He was a friend of my roommate's boyfriend. It was definitely not love at first sightm but we eventually started flirting and fell in love. He was my first boyfriend ever, we dated for four and a half years before growing apart. It's a relationship I will never forget. - Wendy H.
My first love was with a man that I took for granted. He had all that I was looking for, only I didn't realize it until it was too late. He was ready for a life long commitment; I was young and not ready to settle down and too naive to realize he was "the one." Fifteen years have passed, and I've learned that the opportunity to love someone that loves you inside and out is priceless and if you're lucky, it happens once in a lifetime. When you find a love like this, don't let it slip away! My first, lifetime love, was Ed. - michele c.
I was 14, and he was 15. I asked him to attend a church function, and he refused. For the next year, I saw him occasionally, but we didn’t interact. When I was 16, he called, and asked me out. For the next three months, we were inseparable, until summer ended, and I left for boarding school. We tried to hold a long distance romance together for the next two years, but couldn’t. We lost touch for six years, until he found me again. We have been married now for 15 years, with four beautiful children - Our family is filled with laughter and love. - Katherine M.
I helped Jackie move into her freshmen dorm under the guise of inviting her to a fraternity party - while I was instantly smitten, it took a friendship of several years yet in one instant, on one night, where all the stars aligned, we fell deeply in love. And that's how it was for 12 years and two beautiful kids later, until Jackie's "forever" ended with a tragic stroke that took her life. While life may be fleeting, true love is eternal. - jay w.
It began the day I was walking up the street to catch a bus to get tickets to a concert. I was approached by a gorgeous guy who asked me if I needed a ride to campus. I told him "No, thanks." He replied, "I'm a decent guy!" Eventually, I invited him to a party my roommates and I were having. I lost his coat and ended up holding his hand. I followed him to Texas after I graduated college. We eventually married, but things didn't work out. We got divorced and I moved home again. After two years, he followed me, and we are happy now. - Sandy M.
I met Bill at college in 1974, and we lived together until late 1975. After a huge fight we separated, and I often thought of him throughout the years as I moved from state to state. In 2001, I saw his wife's obituary in the hometown newspaper. She died from ovarian cancer, and he had nursed her through five intense years of chemo and radiation and hope. His address was listed as being on the East Coast, so I sent him a sympathy card with my name and e-mail address. After all those years we reconnected and were married in September of 2003. - Constance S.
I had to scheme to get the fellow that I wanted to be more interested in me. I sent myself a beautiful array of flowers and a card sent from "a secret admirer " and I put it out for him to see. It wasn't long after that, he asked me out on a date. We have been seeing each other ever since. - megan b.
I met Ray at a young adult group at a prominent church in NYC. We dated a long time; I moved to Georgia, but we kept in touch. I returned to NY and he moved to PA. I dated David & when he asked me to marry him I said "yes" because I felt it would never happen with Ray.
After 17 years of marriage David and I divorced. All during the marriage I had dreams of Ray, of reuniting with him.
I finally did a search, found his phone number and called him. He nearly fell down!
We talk on the phone a lot now and I'm hoping we'll soon reunite. - Lorraine C.
My Love Story began 35,000 feet in the sky on my first trip to LA. Beside me sat the most handsome man. We talked the entire time. When we arrived, he knew all about me and I, him. For months we talked on the phone and he came to NC and encouraged me to travel back to LA for visits. We enjoyed this long-distance love affair for almost a year. However, after realizing Southern California wasn't the "Southern" lifestyle I was raised on, we decided to end our relationship. I am now a widow and after 35 years, it has me wondering...should I? - Joyce M.
After 42 years of marriage, I would say this love is definitely not fleeting. - mary p.
My first love was my only love, both fleeting and forever. I fell in love with Lee during a charity dance that I was attending with my then husband. My marriage was already in trouble. Lee and I fell in love on the dance floor, but I was married and that was that. Two years later, after being single for over a year, Lee called me and asked me to go fishing with him. We've been married for 35 years now, and raised our two children and my 3 children together. And we still are in love. - Mary H.
Each of us were coming out of marriages gone bad, and neither one of us were really looking to get involved with anyone. We met online, though not in the way you typically think, not through dating sites, but through a discussion forum. The virtual relationship grew over time, until reaching the day my husband suggested we should meet. Of course I immediately said "No." But he was persistent, I was cautious, so I gave him the third degree, 4th, 5th and even 6th. Finally I agreed. The rest is history. - Karyn E.
Ivan and I met in church, the kind where women wore only skirts; pants were offensive on a female. We would sit through the first sermon and sneak out to a nearby park where we would smoke cigarettes and laugh. We would pull branches off trees and use them just like chopsticks to hold our menthol lights; it was suppose to prevent our fingers from smelling. Somewhere between tasting nicotine and someone’s lips for the first time, I fell in love. Ivan is now happily married to a very conservative woman but I still enjoy my menthol lights. - Yuliya Z.
I met Lisa in Arizona. I was just there to visit a friend. We fell in love, plain and simple. I never left. Sold everything and moved to be with her. We have two wonderful boys, 12 and 16. And Lots of beautiful Southwest memories. - James W.
Chad was my first love. The one I foolishly fell head over heels for. I had never been in love, or for that matter, I had never been hurt by someone either. I was a sophomore in high school and he was a redheaded, and freckled-face freshman. We became fast friends and slowly started dating. We both had older sisters who our parents expected us to emulate and because of this he became my rock. We dated almost a year but he eventually broke my heart. However, I did learn a valuable lesson from Chad: no matter how much pain love can cause, the experience of love is priceless. - Alicia W.
I met and fell in love with the love of my life almost 3 years ago. We are both over 60 years old. We go country dancing 3 or 4 nights per week. We do the Texas two-step, the Drifter, the Horseshoe and a few others. We also West Coast and Nightclub Two-Step. Who would have thought that the best years of my life would be at age 60? - Winifred G.
We met in a plasma center I was a struggling Nurse and he was a stranger off the street. Our eyes met, there was no interest. I was called back to began my donation and he came shortly after and sat next to me. As the movie “Ghost” played on the TV above and “Unchanged Melodies” played in the back, we talked for hours. He made me laugh and asked me for my number, wrote it on a $5 bill. He left the center and I went to follow but he was gone. For weeks later he called me and we went on a date. We have been together for 10 years. - Ornail H.
I was a 26 year old guy, living with 3 roommates and it was a typical Friday night party. We got to the door of one of our favorite dance clubs but it didnt look like a lot of people were there. One of the guys asked me if we should go somewhere else. For some reason, I said "Lets just stay here." We went in and almost immediately, I saw the most beautiful woman that I had ever seen in my life! I asked her to dance and now 22 years and five kids later, I still remember standing at the door. - Donnie B.
I met my first love while on a Mediteranean cruise. I was a single American working in Europe, and she was a slightly older single Swiss lady on her first cruise. We had a grand time for the week on the cruise, and then for a few months after. When it was time for me to move back to the US I asked her to come with me, but she said she couldn't. After a month or so of exchanging letters she just stopped answering. I will always remember her, my first true love. - Steve D.
I was alone. I didn’t know love. She entered my life 39 years ago. She would greet me after class with a big smile and a lollipop. I got a teddy bear on my 21st birthday. Her child-like approach taught me the essence of unconditional love. We married 35 years ago. We love being together. She made me promise not to die first. She doesn’t want to live without me. I cherish each day we have together. I’ll try to keep my promise although I can’t imagine my life without her in it. I don’t want to be alone again. But now I do know true love. - Paul G.
My wife and I first met when she answered a personal ad I had entered in a newspaper. We dated briefly, and she ended up marrying someone else. Years later I ran into her at a local casino. She was divorced (and I had never married). We started dating again and eventually married. - Jim H.
I worked with him in an office and everytime he walked in the door my heart would drop to the floor. I hoped he would never notice how I broke out in a sweat when he came in and I hoped my light banter would not give me away. I knew he was dating someone and I secretly hoped he would break up with her and notice me, but alas he didn't and when he got married, I knew my dream would never be real. He honestly made my heart stop...no one before nor since has been able to do that. - alicia m.
My husband was the only man I called up for a date. I couldn't believe that I had to go to such extremes to get his attention. But after 27 years of ups and downs, we are still together facing the world. - Kathy S.
My first love was fleeting and of course that was sad. He slipped a ring on my finger as I was driving, and I did not even notice. He tried and tried to get me to look at my hand, but I was cautious and would not take my eyes off the road. I finally looked down, and came so close to crashing. Too bad in the end, it was the marriage that crashed. - teresa j.
I had a blind date about twenty one years ago. That blind date turned into twenty years of marriage and still going strong. - Joe D.
In the summer of 1962 there was no shortage of admirers for the teenage American daughter of a US Naval officer in Naples, Italy. My sister was a magnate for latin lovers. We couldn't travel the two blocks to the bus stop without a handful of proposals of marriage along with the usual testimonials about her beauty rivaling Sophia Loren's. As the little sister, I employed the local prescription of spewing vile insults to part the crowd so she could pass with as little body contact as possible - That moment I saw him, his eyes laughing at me. - Carmen B.
It was Forever. On a cold February morning, I entered my place of work. A dashing man whom I saw very rarely, noticed that I was cold and rubbing my hands together. Suddenly he extended his warm hands to help me warm mine. The very moment we touched, I knew that he was the man I was to marry. In July we met at work again, I was so excited I gave him my phone number. That night he called and we began dating. 6 weeks later he asked me to marry him. 6 months later we were married. We just celebrated our 14th wedding anniversary on January 3rd. - Judy J.
My first love was fleeting but beautiful. There's nothing like that first emotional connection. - Christine D.
Ann was 14 and I was 16 when we met in Brooklyn, NY. We dated for 4 years, then parted. Shortly after that, I heard that she had married and moved to Boston. That was the last I heard of her. 37 years later, while living in Florida, I found her name on a social networking site. I wrote her a "hi" note. She responded, and told me she was also living in Florida; albeit on the other side of the state, and she was widowed. We spoke the next night, and two days later I showed up at her door with 37 roses. We've been together since. - Thomas P.
I met Francisco while studying abroad in college in Madrid. My only aim had been to learn the language and the culture. It was a whirlwind romance as I only had a month left before I returned home. We would meet up every day and talk about our hopes and dreams. I felt like I had known him my whole life and I knew I had met my perfect match - we continued our relationship, long distance, for a year and a half and then I moved back to Madrid. Now, not only am I fluent in Spanish but we have been married almost two years! - Abby D.
I got on the wrong train in Germany and ended up in a town called Soest. The next train didn't leave until the next day and I had no money for a hotel, so a nice student who overheard my problem offered to let me stay at his place. We talked all night and, when I left, I gave him a kiss on the cheek. I never saw him again, but have often wondered where and how he is. - Margo E.
My forever love story is my husband. He astounds me everyday with his compassion, thoughtfulness and caring nature. His love is what I live for. - Laura H.
My first love was a girl I met in first grade. Her family moved at the end of the year and I never saw her again. - Daniel D.
My love story is real. This is truly an amazing story on how I met my husband. Back in April of 2001 my best friend, Tonya, and I went to the Mall of America. Once inside the mall, I spotted a gorgeous man across the way. I told Tonya "I have to meet that man." I approached Matthew and we started talking. Come to find out Matthew lived in Florida and was on vacation. We chatted it up and five days later I flew to Florida to visit him. We have been together ever since and married in August of 2006. I believe in love at first sight. - Amy L.