October 2010
1 post
Timeless Love
My father was a true baseball fan, in fact that was how he met my mother. They were at an American Legion game in Memphis. My mother was there with another guy and got tickled about something and turned around, my dad was sitting behind her and she hit him on the knee.
Not long after that, the other guy went on a trip to Florida with some buddies. One of my mother’s friends thought it...
August 2010
2 posts
I'd walk a thousand miles...
I’ve just gotten out of a 6-year relationship about 3 months ago. I wanted to marry this guy, however, he said that he always felt that there was something missing in the relationship, and he never felt complete when I am with him, so he broke up with me. I was distraught. He wanted me to date other people…so I slowly tried to move on…
One week after the break-up, I met a...
A wonderful man
In 2001, I “met” a wonderful man. I say “met” because we found each other online in a chat room. It was a voice chat and as soon as he spoke I sent a private message to a friend asking her if she knew who he was because his voice was working for me. We quickly connected and talked often online. He was in MI and I was in NJ. After months of talking online and running up...
July 2010
7 posts
He Loves Me, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
When I was 15, I was busy loading up my college application with tons of academic competitions. I noticed this one boy, Leo, at every single one. I developed a little crush on him, due to the fact that he looked exactly like Paul McCartney, my favorite Beatle. One day at a certain competition, I was listening to my iPod to the song “She Loves You” by the Beatles, and I didn’t...
Love is Blind (Really, Really, Really Blind...)
In high school, I met this wonderful, gorgeous, theater-smart guy. I promptly fell head over heels for him. I thought he was absolutely perfect—he was in drama club, he was in the musical, he could sing, and he was extremely attractive. It was too good to be true.
Unfortunately, I was right in thinking so. During rehearsal one night, one of my friends was kind enough to enlighten me upon...
Almosts
After an intense six weeks of school, I was headed to go away with some friends for the weekend. It was going to be just the break that I needed - get out of the city, relax, and catch up on sleep. However, I found out a few days before the trip that I had to attend a manditory seminar all day on the Saturday so I wouldn’t be able to go. I wasn’t pleased and considered my weekend...
A Chance Encounter
So there I was, in my student accommodation building in Kingston, London, just wandering past the door down the hallway back to my room at 3 in the morning. There were two small windows in the door to our flat, you could barely see anything through them, but I thought I saw someone standing outside in the corner of my eye. So I turned around and went back to open the door. It turned out to be a...
Thought He Was True to Me
I had dated this guy for almost a month and he took me to the prom which was fun. I honestly thought that when we were together he was devoted to me because he seemed to always gaze into my eyes like he loved me. But two days after prom I found out he had been flirting with a friend of mine the week before prom….Then I found out a lot of other things I didn’t like. Pretty much he was...
She Likes Basketball
Well this I find kinda ironic because of Promises, Promises.
So my dad was invited to a party by his college roommate, Thor. The host (I don’t think I ever met the guy) said there was this girl there that he wanted my dad to meet. My dad goes to the party. He meets my mum.
His pickup line: “Do you like basketball?”
WHAT KIND OF GREETING IS THAT?! Funny enough, my mum loves...
True Love
A swish of a skirt. The slap of footsteps on the tile floors. He cathes up to Her, and pulls her in for a kiss. She doesn’t protest (too much). First love, romance, and all in 3rd grade.
Thats the story of my parents first romance. Since Kindergarten, they’d been going to the same school, had shared a kiss in 3rd grade, and dated on and off through out middle and high school.
...
June 2010
20 posts
Sweet Dreams
I had quite the crush on this guy I was doing a show with back in college. Unfortunately his girlfriend was not a fan of me. Honestly, I crushed on him from afar. His other half wasn’t very, um, kind, and not long after our harmless flirting began she oddly enough began spending a lot of time around the theatre. She started bringing up very random instances that occurred during rehearsals. ...
Equine Infatuation
There is nothing quite like a horse crazy young girl’s first equine crush. For me, that was an aged Welsh Pony/Arabian cross named Peanuts who I met at summer camp and later rode in riding lessons. He was the first horse who I developed a working relationship as a young teenager and I am forever thankful for having the opportunity to get to ride him. He taught me how to post, how to...
Tumble Dry Love
Many years ago, I was doing laundry on a cold night in a 25 cents a load laundry shed, down to wearing my last clean outfit. In comes a cute boy who looked exotic and started talking about the chemistry book I was studying because he had the class the year before. Then, he left his sock in the dryer so I took it out to him and he ended up helping me get all my laundry home in the winter dark while...
True Love Finds a Way
Best love story I’ve ever known of was the one between my great aunt and my great uncle. My great aunt was born in 1899 and my great uncle in 1902. They met when she was 21 and conducting the pit orchestra where he was playing the violin. During the speaking parts of the show, they would hold hands. By the end of the show he had asked her to marry him. She said yes, but that he would have to...
A Bad Romance
My boyfriend and I met through a mutual friend, and it was love at first sight. We were inseparable and loved being around each other. We had SO much in common! I knew he was the one for me, it was just SO good! And I knew I loved him with all of my heart and soul. We started talking about getting married, and even had some names picked out for our future kids. It was perfect, but I started to...
Ich Vermisse Dich (or, "I Miss You" in German)
The scene is the summer of 1970, New York City. I was fresh out of secretarial school, Katharine Gibbs on Park Avenue to be exact. Eagerly anticipating my first day as a secretary at BBDO, 383 Madison Avenue, I arrived at work and sat down at my desk! All of a sudden, WHAM, BOOM!!!
“HE” stepped out of his office and walked past my desk. My heart started to flutter like the wings...
Love Struck Off Stage!
I just ended a relationship - I was so mad about men and mad at myself that I was not pleasant to be around and thought everything related to love sucked. This all happened days before opening night of a show I was working on. Rehearsals were crazy. The night before we opened, I struck up a conversation with the lead while a bunch of the cast was out after rehearsal. I hadn’t worked with...
Love At First Sight
Me and my husband worked for the same company, different buildings, until I moved into his…I was unpacking boxes when he walked by and saw my ANKLE….he said he knew he wanted to see more of me….within one month we were engaged, within one year we were married and one month after I was pregnant. So many people thought we were crazy, that it wasn’t real love.
15 years later...
How I Knew He Was The One
My boyfriend was at my house, early in our relationship. It was one of the first times he was spending time at my house. My dog, who was 12 years old, was an excellent judge of character, and she liked him. A LOT. He was not a pet person. However, I left the room for a bit, and when I came back down the hallway, from the other room I heard, “Who’s the man?” <squeak>...
My Parents
My parents met in the 1960s on Dec. 5th (which happens to be my birthday). They grew up in the same town less than a mile apart. However, my dad went to Catholic school and my mother public, so they never got to meet before then. They both signed up to go on a youth group trip for the day. In the parking lot, my mother was with her friend. My dad and his friend were tossing a football back and...
16 years and counting...
I met Justin in the 7th grade when I changed schools. We use to talk every day for hours on the phone and he was even my first “real” kiss at a party in middle school. We stay connected in high school even though at the beginning we had a very different group of friends. We would talk for endless hours about anything and listen to music over the phone and I even played my horn to him...
Best Bad Date Ever
Once I met a guy, and instantly knew I just wasn’t into him, but he was persistent. Finally, in attempt to get the phone calls to stop, I agreed to go to the movies with him. My condition: I pick the movie. I picked “Enchanted.” (yes, thats a little evil to do to a guy). When we arrived at the theater it was PACKED no seats left together anywhere. (secret smile to myself for...
I Love You!!..... Just Kidding
One evening i was instant messaging Nate, who is in my senior class, that i’ve known for awhile. We had already gone to homecoming together this fall, and i was really starting to like him. He was really sweet, and everytime this one guy in our English class hit on me Nate would get a lil’ angry & tell me I shouldn’t put up with jerks like that. His friends told me he really...
Allergic to the Guy!!!
Ok, so everything started out great until I had an allergic reaction to something that I ate. I realized I would have to let the guy know that something was wrong. I apologized and said that I didn’t feel well at all and would have to leave soon. His response…Can you hold out long enough so I can have dessert? Let’s just say…that was the last date!
TIMING IS EVERYTHING
I spent last two years of my seven-year relationship in constant turmoil. While I didn’t want to accept that it was ending, I knew deep down inside that we weren’t going to make it. I put up with more than anyone ever should in, what was supposed to be, a loving relationship. I tried so hard to fix what was broken, but when you are the only one in the relationship trying, well… that never...
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High School Sweethearts
My husband and I met in High School at the ripe old age of 14 (he was 15). We were great friends and adventurers. When he got his license we traveled to Canada, NYC, Niagara Falls and all the places in between. We were great friends. When college began we lost touch for a few years. When he graduated (which was a year before me) and he came back into the area we decided to date. A year later he...
Love Found In The Strangest Place
After a terrible break up, that took me an entire eternity to get over. I decided I would let my guard down and have fun. Little did I know it would mean chipping my tooth on Coney Island’s infamous Cyclone roller coaster!
It all started one summer when I met … we’ll just call him, Alex! He was short, funny and had the world’s greatest smile. He would always tell me how beautiful and...
My Winnie Cooper
Everyone has the one who got away. The one you were MEANT to be with. I call that person “Winnie Cooper” (from The Wonder Years!) My Winnie Cooper was actually an old friend of mine. We moved to New York City the same summer, and since neither of us knew anyone, we hung out all the time. I know there was a mutual attraction between us. He was a year younger than I am, and was seeing someone...
That's What You Get...
I met this guy when I went away to school. We became really close and spent a lot of time together, but he had an on-again-off-again girlfriend so nothing ever materialized. Finally, two years later we started dating. It was going really well until midterms rolled around, and suddenly he was “too busy” to hang out for even a few hours. Six weeks later he called at 2 AM wanting to see me. I told...
Never Trust a Bouncer
There was a bouncer at a bar in Chicago who I knew through a friend. He asked me out on a date one night, and although I hesitated at first, I decided to go. He called me about ten minutes before we were supposed to meet up and asked if we could meet later because something “suddenly came up.” I eventually met him at his apartment where he proceeded to take a 20 minute shower while I sat on his...
May 2010
1 post
Baby Talk....Really?
I dated a guy who was tall, funny and cute. Everything was seemingly great except one thing: Baby Talk. Whenever I called he would answer the phone “Hewwo” and when I gave him flowers or some cute gift, he would say “Fankoo vewwy much!” I couldn’t deal with it, so I ended it with him. I should have broken up with him through a baby monitor. No fankoo.
