who is in a really great relationship right now?

Man, that was a long one that last one :/

Anyway, I wanted to share a little story about my grandparents. The actions are so simple, but so sweet, it really touched my heart and I hope it touches other people's.

My Grandparents were in the hospital, on and off (mostly on) from the beginning of April until the end of June. My Papa had a collapsed lung that kept giving him trouble. My Nana was having intestinal problems that were making her very sick. She went in after my Papa, and they were only 1 room away from each other after she came in for her first surgery. It drove him crazy when she came in! He didn't care how he was doing, he was always asking about her. As soon as the doctors removed his tubes that were pretty much keeping him in his room, he gathered up his oxygen tank and bolted right out the door straight into my Nana's room, and sat with her until he was too weak to stay anymore. Well, then she went downhill real quick, after a 2nd surgery, and he was so worried...he's usually so composed...I've never seen him cry, but I saw tears in his eyes while keeping him company in her room one day. As soon as he was better, and discharged from the hospital, he didn't even leave. He told my aunt to go home and pick up some clothes for him. He didn't want to leave my Nana's side. We eventually made him go home for the nights, even though he'd stay all day. But as soon as anyone could bring him, he was back at the hospital. Well, his lung collapsed again, and he was admitted again. This time for longer, and we weren't sure he'd make it this time. My poor Nana, near death herself, made this incredible turn around as soon as she heard Papa was back and not doing so well. She wanted to be well and be there with him! She hadn't even eaten anything in 45 days, suddenly she was asking for fried chicken and taters every day. She got well enough to go home, but no one would allow her in the hospital after that. Too worried about her weakened imune system. She called Papa every day, every night, and numerous times in between. Finally he had a surgery that fixed him, and he's home now. But the day they discharged him, they were taking their sweet time. He kept getting up, calling the nurse, impatiently asking when he could go home. My parents were there and said he started figuring up how many days he'd gone without being home with my Nana. It was the longest they'd been apart since they got married back in the 50s. Here they were, at death's door, both of them, only worried about the other, only wanting to be there with each other. It was so touching to see that in person. I knew they loved each other, but had never witnessed it like this before. They got married when she was either 18 or 19. She's 68 now I think? He's 78. It's a beautiful thing

 

Co0kiezGurl, I got tears in my eyes after reading your grandparents' story.
That's real love, that one of the reasons life is worth living for...

 

I am very, very much in love!
My boyfriend, Matt, and I met a year ago. We were going to the same school (Kalamazoo College) in Michigan. We also had both just gotten out of bad relationships and were very "anti-relationship" when we first met. During the first week of school, I met his roommate, who introduced me to Matt. After a few nights of staying up until morning talking, we agreed on a sort of "friends with benefits" type deal because we liked each other alot, but didn't think we wanted to get back into a relationship. Plus, it was our first year at college. During the second week of school we had our first kiss. After that, we knew we wanted to be together. There was no denying the feelings we had for each other and we didn't want to be with anyone else. We stayed together (and faithful) throughout the schoolyear and saw each other practically every day. He is the most loving, faithful, intelligent, humorous man I've ever met. He makes me feel like the most beautiful girl in the world. I never thought that I would be so lucky to find a relationship as perfect as this.
After finishing our first year of college, we realized that we both wanted a major change in our lives. We decided to transfer schools (to Humboldt State University) and move out west to Arcata, CA. We are now living together in an apartment in Arcata and things could not be better. I love living with Matt; it's like living with my best friend (and the sex is great, too!)
I could never see myself with anyone else besides him. I love being in love!

Thanks for listening to my nerdy ramblings.

-Sarah

 

I am in a VERY VERY great relationship! I hope to marry this man!
We met last year on Halloween night, well...we got introduced, but didn't talk. We, like, officially...met in December of last year, and him, his sister, and I became really good friends. In January, Him and i got together the night i stayed with his sister at her place..he lived there too. It was so cute! But i won't say anything more about that, my fingers would fall off.

Him and i have SO much in common! Almost EVERYTHING. from the way we dress, to our opinion on things. We can finish eachothers sentances almost all the time, and we know what the other is thinking, without them saying it out loud.... We think SO much alike it's unbelievable.
He is HILARIOUS, he's SO talented...with art and music. He's respectful, caring, generous, so sweet, loving and understanding....basically the whole package of what every woman wants! AND SOOO MUCH MORE! I am head over heels in love with him, and i know he is with me....it's so great. I thank God every day for giving me the privelage of being with this man.
OH, hahah, he's a GREAT father too!

We've been through a LOOOOTTTTTT.....stuff that would probably rip another couple apart, but the stuff has only made our relationship stronger.
Once again i say.....i could go on, but my fingers would fall off from typing what stuff we've been through, and all that nifty crap. -[sighs a happy sigh and goes off into dream land]-

 

Co0kiezGurl, your stories were so beautiful! The one about your grandparents brought tears to my eyes...sooo sweet. Now that is true love... And it was so cute how your boyfriend said he loved you without actually saying it. Sigh...I'm such a sucker for love...haha.

I'm in a beautiful relationship, too. My boyfriend and I met on Friday the 13th of December, 2002, and have been together for a year and almost 8 months. We actually met on this website, and after talking for the first time, knew we wanted to get to know each other. The first time we talked on the phone was only a few days after contacting each other, and the conversation lasted 3 hours. After 2 weeks of talking online, we finally met in person...he took a bus and train to my house (he lives 4 hours away in South Jersey...). When he got off the train, he had a camera with him, and snapped a picture of me. So...he now has a picture of the very first time he saw me in person...

It's funny because, not only did he meet me in person for the first time, but he met my family...AND, we went over to my aunt's house for dinner that night, so he met my extended family as well...lol.

We knew we were in love while we were talking online, but we didn't want to say it until we actually met in person. We first said it and had our first kiss on my couch downstairs. It took my breath away...so beautiful. I'm still very much in love with him a year and 8 months later, and will be seeing him on friday (damn long distance relationships!). It's a good thing we have such great communication...we talk every day, and are each other's best friends. Yay for love!

 

I'm having a great relationship with myself.....

who am i kidding? being single for almost 2 years now sucks

 

I'm in a really wonderful relationship. We have been together for a little over a year, we met at Bonnaroo 03, traveled together for about a year and now we live in Mass temporaraly. At the end of this month, though, he is going to school in NY and I hopefully am too, but I can't find anywhere to live. I've already been excepted into school too. We are going to stay together regardless what happens but it will be nice if we can live either together or at least close to one another. I love him though and he loves me, we make people sick we're so cute, or so they say... You don't have to worry good happy relationships definatly exist, and are plentiful actually......

 

LOL sorry, I'm a bit hyper today. Don't get over here to this forum too often, but this thread caught my eye. The people who were on the old forums are probably sick and damn tired of my story, but too bad.

My boyfriend and I have been together now for 4 years. It all started with the Yahoo personals... back before they pimped people out and it was free. Him being the silly goose that he is, posting a goofy ad that I did not take seriously, and me being bored at work as usual and searching the personals for anyone left on this planet that possessed a sense of humor. He didn't have a picture up with his ad, and I normally skip past those but his ad was quite witty, I can't remember what exactly it said (I wish I could). Anyway, I emailed him with some smartass response as I normally would anyone I'm trying to make a favorable impression on. I told him a little about myself, that I was just looking for friends to chill with (which was true, sort of) and that if he was a snob like the rest of the brats at the University of Delaware (we both lived on campus... more on that in a minute) then don't bother emailing me back. Surprisingly, a few days later he had emailed me back with an equally smartassed reply something about he wears a beret, drives a beemer and twists his handlebar mustashe all the while waving his middle finger in the air. (to this day I have no idea what the hell that was supposed to mean, but I thought it was the funniest thing I had heard... what can I say it was yahoo personals, they suck!) so I emailed him again. This time I did not receive a response for like a month! Needless to say, I wrote him off and moved on. Then all of a sudden I got a note in my box where he apologizes profusely because he never checks that personals box or the yahoo address associated with it, so he had no idea I had emailed him. Then he gave me his real email addy. I never responded. Didn't really know what to say, plus I had started dating other people. Then about a month later out of the blue he instant messaged me one day on AIM. Luckily back then my yahoo email and my AIM id were the same so he could find me. I remember it was rainning on a Saturday and that is why we were both online. We ended up chatting for hours. Come to find out he lived right down the street from me and I had been driving past his house every day on my way to work for a year and neither of us knew it. We found out that we have a lot in common. So much in fact, that it is a little scary. We joke that one day we will find out we are actually related because our families are so much alike and we both have family in South Carolina. As a matter of fact we figured out that we must have run into each other at some point when we were both in South Carolina because we were at the exact same 4th of July fireworks show in like 1993. Of course I would have been all of 13 years old, but still, very strange. LOL and at this point we still hadn't even gotten together!

He and I first met when he called me and asked me to come over and watch a movie with him. That Bedazzled movie. Anyway, when he met me, he said he wasn't attracted to me because I had on some ugly pink shirt and I had my nails done (my best friend was in beauty school, so I was the guinnea pig). He thought I was a "yo-girl", so he just backed off and didnt' really message me. But I was still interested in him, so I played the friends card, figuring that eventually he would fall in love with my wonderful personality. And well it worked! I would message him every now and again and talk about dumb stuff, then our conversations became more frequent and we started talking about things like past relationships and deeper issues. I was sick of the bar scene and dating jerks or blind dates that go horribly wrong. I had nothing to do one Friday night because all of my friends were out with their boyfriends. I was so fed up, that I just got online and TOLD him that I was bored and that I was coming over to hang out. At that point I had no idea that he liked me or anything, but he confessed later that he started to have feelings for me. This time though, when I went over there I was much more relaxed and I was dressed much better, with no fake nails on! At that point though I don't think it would have mattered. I could tell he was already smitten with me. He gave me a back rub, and made me rum runners and his friends came over and it turned into somewhat of a party. We all hung out and talked about philosophy, politics, religion all sorts of things. Then his friends left and we ended up staying up all night talking, for some reason he tried on my boots. (he is forever trying on my shoes... not sure why) Then we made out and fell asleep.

The next day I went home, but he called me and asked if I wanted to come back again that night to hang out some more. We've been together ever since. It hasn't exactly been a fairytale, we have ups and downs, but we always work it out. At this point there is no one who will ever measure up to him. He completes me. Sure I have thought about other guys, but he is the only one I want.

 

I've only had one relationship i wasnt forced into and it was great while it lasted. i loved her for ages until then, and during that time we became good freinds and she started going out with one of my best freinds. That made me feel kinda shit, then i asked her out (a while after her and my freind split up, so dont think im some sort of man slut). She said yes and it was going great, but my freind who lies alot said she was flirting with another guy, and i felt like utter shit. When I asked her she got angry and broke up with me, hell i know its my fault but i'm still in love with her and we're still good freinds. And she's started talking about how hot my freind's are looking nowadays and it just takes me back to when i felt shit.

 

ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm into a serious great long-distance relationship. I live for him...I love him with every breath, every fiber of my being

 

Me! I'm engaged and we're the love of each other's life. We're so happy!!