Great Couples Have Great Love Stories

1st Love Sucks!

I have 1 friend who has a love/hate relationship with his girlfriend/babymomma

Ofcourse you can find love at a club or the internet you can find it anywhere!

The recession hasnt help my love life and dont know why it would. Although after Katrina people where having a lot more sex down here(New Orleans) or so I heard anyways!

The last time I was in love the twin towers were still there!

Freshman year in college I started noticing this guy everywhere on campus. I just got this vibe from him that he was a good dude, but being the shy girl that I was I never approached him. I'd see him on the subway platform in the afternoons but we'd never say anything to each other. There were so many times that I wanted to just approach him and introduce myself but the shyness and fear of rejection took over me. We'd board the same train and I'd see him staring at me through the glass doors. Still no introduction. Then one day I get a Facebook message from some unfamiliar guy asking me if I took the 4 train at Union Square, because I looked familiar but he wasn't sure it was me. Turns out I was staring at his face on some Facebook group for months prior and didn't know it was the same dude. He always wore hats on campus and in his pic he was hat-less. Later that week, we met up at school and a great relationship formed. That was four years ago. He's my best friend and my first true love. And THAT will be the story I tell our children in a few years, god willing. Technically we didn't meet online, because we went to the same school but were connected through Facebook.

I do think it's possible to find love online, but you'd probably have to be lucky. There are just as many genuine love searchers online as there are nut jobs. It's a hit or miss situation.

And the recession sure does bring people together! It's cheaper to spend time together as a couple than it is to date. With dating, you have to pay for dates (dinner, movies, show tickets, cab rides, gas, cute outfits, etc.). In a relationship there is an understanding ("look boo, let's make it a NetFlix night...where's the takeout menu?). It's not always going to be 3 course meals and cab rides. Despite these trying times, some people still don't understand that you can't be spending money all crazy.

Meant * I Know

Hm, I dont know if i really believe that with every great couple comes a great love story. Whatever story a so-called great couple has may just appear great because it appears in the light of the people and their relationship.

Yep, people can meet their soulmate online, at the supermarket, the club, work ... wherever. There are real people sitting behind these computers just as there real people going to work, school, the supermarket, the laundromat everyday. Chances of meeting somebody you are totally compatible with are probably the same whatever means you chose.

My best friend met her boyfriend at a club 2 years ago. They are somewhat of an annoying couple in my book, but they are happy so I guess they qualify as "great".

My fiancé and I met online in a forum and really just goofed around until one day he felt his joke was a little below the waist line and asked for a more personal form of communication to apologize. BTW: I thought it was funny and there was no need to apologize but yea though ...
So we started chatting on Yahoo Messenger on a daily basis. I caught feelings - if that's what you want to call it - relatively early on and found myself looking forward to talking to him and actually missed a person's "company" I had never met. Of course I kept that to myself. After some time, he asked for my number in the probably most-obvious-but-trying-extra-hard-not-to-be-obvious kind of way. Long story short, we talked on the phone everyday, fell in love with each other, decided that it's worth trying and taking the risk. From there, I went to visit him for New Year's and we shared a great big movie style hug the first time we saw each other. Despite the distance, we've been inseperable ever since.

@Da Throne

Love doesn't suck. The people we love sometimes do though.

Well, I dated my online love for a little over one year. We were inseperable. Made plans to move in together this Spring...until the accident happened. He was in a car accident last July and our relationship was never the same. Brain injury is no joke and you never know what to expect. I tried and tried to make it work, but the one-sidedness(if that makes sense) of our relationship made it very difficult. To make a long story short, I ended it. My happiness is way more important than sustaining a relationship with someone who I felt I no longer knew.

I know true love exists and I haven't given up. My intentions are to continue working on myself and I'll attract the right person when it's meant to happen. My older sister is a prime example of this. After many failed relationships, she finally found the one and even relocated to be with him.

Love is love.

Lmaoo@Shawn Lee .. especially lmao@kinda ... uh huh

single and prolly never getting married but the ppl who have fallen in love wit me and the idiot im inl love wit ...its all based on amazing friendships!

@ da throne ... u remind me of my good homie travis, i luv reading ur post! ... but i digress anyway dnt give up on love it cant be rushed... love is divine and omnipresent [sound familiar] well just the same it doesnt come wen u want it but it will always be on time!

Close your eyes and imagine your head being dunked in the pool.

That's the feeling I had when I first saw the man who ended up being my husband. I totally blacked out and I've never before or after met a man who has had that same affect on me. Other guys may have made me give second, third or more looks and have even made me stare in shock but nothing like that.

We met at work and we were so happy. We were best friends. He's an awesome guy. It's unfortunate that our story didn't have a happy ending but I can't even front like this man wasn't it and that I'll ever get a replacement.

here's a great one: my friend Chanelle and I always take lunch together when its nice out in the city during work. Well one day coming back to the office from lunch she notices this fine man in front of us on his cell phone. She just cant not stop talkin about him for the entire walk until the man(still on the phone mind u) sits down on a bench to continue his phone call. I remind her that with such an intense convo he could def be talkin to his girlfriend so she caught herself and continued to walk looking back for him the entire two blocks. Now 2 months later taking the same exact walk to the same cafe place we bump into the same guy and his friend! it was the exact spot where we noticed him the last time. My girlfriend was so determined that this was a sign from the Lord above. So we continued onto the cafe and lost the guys only for my girlfriend to hit me in line when they pass by the window. We naturally ate our lunch then on the way back to the building we take a short cut and see the guys eating lunch. I tell her you better go say something or give him a card. She mans up and approaches him and the rest is blissful history as she just gave birth to their first child....

So a couple weeks after graduation my best friend whose school had not yet let out yet ( she went to an all girls catholic school) was on the hunt for a prom date. Finally her mom stepped in & set her up with the son of a coworker ( who turned out to be a d***). Anyway her mom thought it would be awkward for the 2 to meet for the first time on prom night so they arrange this picnic at the beach where he would bring some of his friends & she would bring some of her friends. She invited me ( the only one in the group of girl who didnt go to her school) & a group of really snobby chicks. Out rolls her soon to be promdate with what looked like a bunch of hoodlum ( honestly I never really looked at any of them). They hit on every girl there. For reasons no one can remember till this day me & my bestfriend had our first & last fight & all the other girls ( not knowing me well) rallied around her & left me to fend for myself. So I'm walking on the beach & one of the quieter guys in the group( this one hadn't said much before other than ask my name ) came up & asked if he could walk with me & I said ok thinking the whole time this skinny little n**** better not even think to ask for my number. I was already thinking of what excuse to use when I shoot him down after all at the time I had a man. Well we were maybe about 4 sentences in when I realized we were really connecting in a way I had never connected with anyone in my life. I looked at him for the first time & realized he was a real cutie. We exchanged numbers & haven't stopped connecting since. We are bestfriends & he tells me for him it was love at first sight. For me it was love at first conversation.

Naked, first & foremost I love this post. I agree with Elle that real people are behind those keyboards & screens- so a true connection is possible but I also feel that people can create whoever they want to be online, so two individuals have to truly get to know one another before it can become "a great love".

I can't really say what constitutes a "great story" of meeting- but I wouldn't change the one of how I met my love for anything. It's pretty lengthy and it involves us both already being in love...with Hip-Hop. Perhaps I'll hit you behind the scenes to share that one.

By the way, I wonder how Ossie & Ruby met. Now THAT must be a story for all time.

Our is fairly easy. We met on the job--we didn't really dig each other--i thought she was too "lippy" and she felt i was "arrogant". Flash forward nine months later i re-noticed her with a different hair style and a diff type of "lippy" attitude (she was gicing the biz to a customer instead of a co-worker) and i was hella interested.
Her friend gave me the low-down on her and i invited her out for a drink on thanksgiving eve. She invited 3 of our co-workers (has that ever happedned to you??). At any rate i knew she was simply scared to be alone with me for 5 mins cause she heard about my overwhelming charm (!)
Sure enuff about 1 month later we were alone at the local spot having a drink and being natural. this wasnt a date--simply two adults "vibing".
23 years later and we're still doing it. It must be love, talkin' bout love!

The key to any great love story:

If was meant to be, it will be.

This is making a long complicated story short and simple. I have a blog about my life in an open relationship on blogspot. Its called EbonyEyesWideOpen.

When I first met my partner (my lady), it was at a popular party in L.E.S. I thought she was cute and i liked the way she moved, but that was it. At that time i was still, only separated from my then wife and dating other women, not open to or ready to be in anything more than i was. I did not need anything else to complicate life.
A year later we connected early in the morning at a friends party. picture an an almost empty room at four in the morning playing soulful house music on a warm summer night. We danced and it was magic. From that moment on we were connected. We exchanged numbers and would talk on the phone sometimes, but...that magic and that connection was gonna have to wait. I was still married, only half heartedly trying to work it out, and unhappy. I began to actively change my life. I eventually left my wife for good, moved out, and filtered out the women i had been dealing with on the side. I was alone, but could see clearly.
During this transformation I would see my lady out at parties and other social functions. We would find ourselves hanging out with each other amongst friends to not seem so obviously attracted to each other. A few times it was even just us alone. Still we never admitted to each other or to ourselves how we felt.
The connection was strong...in a room full of crowded people i always knew where she was. When we were out with people, we almost exclusively talked to each other.
So i was really single, kinda dating this girl and that girl, but not serious. The door was open. I had been deliberately not calling my lady to not seem so thirsty. This one night I could not get her off of my mind. I remember crossing Canal Street at west Broadway and saying to myself "I have to do something". I text her a message about not being able to stop thinking about her. She text me back, "we should sit down and talk about that". I was bouncing off the walls. Later that night we spoke and set up a day to talk. We met that next week at a lounge. I was so nervous. My feelings for her came spilling out of me. She listened and didnt say much. Understandably she was unsure about starting anything with a still married but separated man with a child, who had dated someone who was in an organization we were both part of. Too much to really explain how the odds were against us ever working out, but we are. And too make things more complicated, we have an open relationship which I journal about at ebonyeyeswideopen.blogspot.com.
The bottom line is that I love her and am in love with her...I still long to talk to her everyday and still know where she is in a crowded room.