happy romantic stories

suki07

not sure if this thread will go down well, and as someone who should be getting over a break up , this is probably a really bad idea! but i'd like to hear those happy stories where like in fairy tales couples break up and somewhere along the line it all ends well! there have to be some out there! or even a story of how someone wouldn't let go of their hope and it stood to them! ... as of yet i've neither, but i would be so grateful to hear some good romantic stories!:P

minidazzler

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Happily ever after doesn't exist, maybe happily until one or both dies, but not happily ever after.

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The Big Red Button

minidazzler wrote: »

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Happily ever after doesn't exist, maybe happily until one or both dies, but not happily ever after.

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But ... no one is arguing that either party will live forever?!

I was married to someone who i now realise i never realy loved ....i was very young when we married...i think it was mixture of infatuation and looking for security that made me marry him..

then i had a few relationships that were mostly about companionship and sex and that was okay

then i decided i was better off on my own...i was okay with that too ...i had a great life, great family, friends

THEN out of the blue i meet my partner and the only way i can describe it to say ... it felt like coming home... i was at peace.....he often says he was always waiting to meet me.

when you meet the right person i think you just know

hope your not feeling too bad

suki07

well recently a couple from where im from died within 8 days of eachother after spending like 60 or more yrs together... i think that's pretty nice and romantic! although i know they couldn't decide their fate but you get the drift.

iv just remembered another romantic story i that i like

my brother says this is when he decided to marry his wife.... they were both 19 year old students both living on the grant ....his wallet was stolen and he was very upset ..his girlfriend ( now his wife )...took out her purse and gave him a tenner...even though he knew she had less that nothing to live on that week

Bubblefett

I fell in love with my best friend. He's my soul mate and he says that from the moment we met, he knew we'd eventually end up together.

We're together nearly three years now

TFP

I broke up with my childhood sweetheart after finishing college (bit of a messy breakup)

I travelled the world as did she, we didn't speak for over three years.

Eventually I settled in Dublin, she settled in london .. and we accidently met one saturday night after we both had come out of bad relationships .. and low and behold we are now 3 years married with a gorgeous baby girl !!!!

More or less full circle ... and if we didn't break up when we did there was no way that we would ever have married!!

shivvyban

My grandparents who raised me knew each other from birth, made their communions together, confirmations... my grandpa moved to america, sent for my grandma and they got married there. They're both 82 now and are still madly in love. Together all their lives... now thats romance... Their relationship is what I strive for

Khannie

Some lovely stuff in here.

shivvyban wrote: »

Their relationship is what I strive for

That's lovely. My folks were a bit like that. They really loved each other. It was a thing of beauty to watch how my mum looked after my dad before he passed on. I can only hope that my own marriage will be as special as theirs was. Doing well so far too.

stovelid

I died during a violent mugging, but was able to somehow return across space and time to give my wife one over a pottery wheel.

Jenneke87

A friend of mine asked his girlfriend to marry him after 3 days because that's when he knew she was the woman of his dreams...........she said yes....

shivvyban

Khannie wrote: »

Some lovely stuff in here.



That's lovely. My folks were a bit like that. They really loved each other. It was a thing of beauty to watch how my mum looked after my dad before he passed on. I can only hope that my own marriage will be as special as theirs was. Doing well so far too.

I just cried... that's beautiful

CathyMoran

Warning - this is super-cute...

First saw him in UCD 14 years ago, he was passing near the bus station - we both said hello and remember telling mum that I saw someone really cute (that has only happened once in my life)...a year later he tried to get me to join something during freshers week? but I did not want to join...a year later I met him again, we had more ons and offs than enough even though he proposed after 9 months...

Then we had a really bad split and saw other people but stayed in contact and got back over time but things were still not great...then mum had a brain haemorrage and he was wonderful but my mind was still on mum so the relationship did not get a proper chance...we were about to get married but he felt that I was unready so called it off...we tried relationship councelling which was a disaster...

In the interim I was starting to get ill and he still got me to go to his consultant for a check (he had to go to his brothers wedding in India, and we both agreed that the time apart would make or break us)...while the poor angel was over in India I was diagnosed with cancer and told him to marry me (he had just been worrled that I was not sure)...we got married 3 months later...and he is wonderful and I adore him and we are expecting a baby in April...

krudler

Not me but I think its romantic, I found out recently that my parents renew their wedding vows every year, then go away for a weekend by themselves, I knew they liked to head off for weekends every now and then, but nobody had any idea thats the reason why, they hadnt told anyone about it until me but theyve been doing it for about 20 years, aint that sweet

wonderingabout

shivvyban wrote: »

My grandparents who raised me knew each other from birth, made their communions together, confirmations... my grandpa moved to america, sent for my grandma and they got married there. They're both 82 now and are still madly in love. Together all their lives... now thats romance... Their relationship is what I strive for

This story is super sweet

Many stories aren't so epic, but i think they're cute.

My boyfriend had an exemption from Irish at school so her never learned a word of it. When we got together i talked about how much i loved Irish and people who could speak it fluently. Anyways he went away and listened to irish on the radio and looked up translations on the internet until he had enough words to tell me how much he loved me as Gaeilge.

He also worked nights outside the city and some mornings after work he would venture into the 8am traffic to get me muti pack of my favourite crips or to buy me some stuffed animals, to surprise me..!

Lola92

When my boyfriend and I went on our first date I knew that he was acting oddly for some reason.
He later told me that it was because he knew he wanted to share the rest of his life with me and wanted to propose right then and there, but didn't want to scare me off.
:rolleyes::p:):D

Bon Bon

I met my boyfriend when we were both 16, we were introduced by a mutual friend and as soon as I talked to him i just knew that we where going to get together, he asked me out a few days later and five years later here we are living together. we have had many ups and downs but we both just knew that night when we met that we where going to be together

banie01

Well when I 1st met my partner.....
I asked her out without ever even seeing her!
Me and a group of mates were hanging around outside one of our houses.....and I heard the most beautiful laugh in the world coming from behind a van.
So I sent my friends GF over to find out who laughed...And to ask her to 'go away' with me The innocence of youth! haha!!!
That night after our 1st kiss and cuddle I went back to my bestfriend and told him...I just met the girl I'm going to spend the rest of my life with'!
2 weeks later I told her I loved her......and I never looked back!
We had our ups and downs thankfully more ups
We travelled, we loved, we lived, we bought our home and we had a beautiful son together!
Then I lost her after 12 years that I wouldn't swap for the universe.
When I told my friend 12 years earlier that I'd spend the rest of my life loving her I meant it....
I just always thought she'd be here with me Instead of being my guardian angel!

Jwacqui

banie01 wrote: »

Well when I 1st met my partner.....
I asked her out without ever even seeing her!
Me and a group of mates were hanging around outside one of our houses.....and I heard the most beautiful laugh in the world coming from behind a van.
So I sent my friends GF over to find out who laughed...And to ask her to 'go away' with me The innocence of youth! haha!!!
That night after our 1st kiss and cuddle I went back to my bestfriend and told him...I just met the girl I'm going to spend the rest of my life with'!
2 weeks later I told her I loved her......and I never looked back!
We had our ups and downs thankfully more ups
We travelled, we loved, we lived, we bought our home and we had a beautiful son together!
Then I lost her after 12 years that I wouldn't swap for the universe.
When I told my friend 12 years earlier that I'd spend the rest of my life loving her I meant it....
I just always thought she'd be here with me Instead of being my guardian angel!

That is so sweet! I actually cried!

Bubblefett

banie01 wrote: »

Well when I 1st met my partner.....
I asked her out without ever even seeing her!
Me and a group of mates were hanging around outside one of our houses.....and I heard the most beautiful laugh in the world coming from behind a van.
So I sent my friends GF over to find out who laughed...And to ask her to 'go away' with me The innocence of youth! haha!!!
That night after our 1st kiss and cuddle I went back to my bestfriend and told him...I just met the girl I'm going to spend the rest of my life with'!
2 weeks later I told her I loved her......and I never looked back!
We had our ups and downs thankfully more ups
We travelled, we loved, we lived, we bought our home and we had a beautiful son together!
Then I lost her after 12 years that I wouldn't swap for the universe.
When I told my friend 12 years earlier that I'd spend the rest of my life loving her I meant it....
I just always thought she'd be here with me Instead of being my guardian angel!

Ah god that's so beautiful,
I love this thread, thank you Suki07!

krudler

I work in an office, there was a girl on my team who was throwing a Halloween house party that a few people from work were meant to be going to, turned out I was the only one who turned up from the office , so we spent the night chatting (she didnt want me to feel intimidated when it was all her friends and I only knew her), had a great time, went to a club then back to the house afterwards, felt a bit of a spark and I'd fancied her for a while anyway but wouldnt have done anything due to us working together could be awkward, said **** it and as people were starting to go home/go to bed we had a great chat sitting on a fitness trampoline of all things.
Taking my chance I leant in and kissed her, was one of those magic kisses where you get goosebumps all over and theres an instant connection, we wound up falling asleep in her bed (cuddling only, no sexy time) and spent the entire day the next day just cuddled up while it was pissing rain outside talking for the first time in a "non work" environment, she dropped me home at 8pm that night,asked her on another date to which she said yes, for ages after that at work was a lot of fun, making each other cups of tea, me leaving her little bars of chocolate on her desk when nobody was looking and leaving flirty little post-it notes on each others desks, nobody knew for months and we liked it that way, been together 2 years since last week who says office romances dont work?

Edgedinblue

once upon a time (around 4 years ago) my mate and myself were in the park having lunch, she was texting random guy she just friends with, and sent him a photo of us both,turned out he thought i was really cute and asked for my number. i of course wasnt pushed about texting a random guy but gave my number anyway to shut my mate up!
after that we texted on and off (mostly him texting and me ignoring him) for about 2 years as friends. neither of us ever really thought anything would come off it. but around 2 years ago, we started texting a bit more often and actually started to get to know eachother properly,which was really nice! then in my last week of college before moving home, i asked him to come meet me in galway and he did. we imidiately hit it off, and got along much better then either of us could have ever expected! we had a great two days together. and went our own ways after that for about two weeks. he constantly thought about me and keep texting me. eventually after meeting up a couple of more times and going on a few dates we decided to make it official.

looking back on it now, him never giving up on me was pretty damn cute! we've never looked back since, year and a half together next month! love him to bits!

netanyahu

Chicken Soup for the Couples Soul book that you will all love it if you love this thread!

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pikachucheeks

netanyahu wrote: »

Chicken Soup for the Couples Soul book that you will all love it if you love this thread!

I've been meaning to read that for ages, never got around to it.

This thread is really nice

I don't really have any happy, romantic stories... but I do think my sixteen year old brother's relationship with his girlfriend (of the same age) is very sweet.
They've been together for two and a half years, since he'd just turned fourteen.

He has a noticeboard in his room, which is full of photos of the two of them together, cards she's given him and ticket stubs from rugby games they've been to.
His room is filled with gifts from throughout their relationship, actually. They get pride of place, next to his xbox!

She's extremely shy and quiet, so he always takes care of her when she's around groups of people and makes sure she's ok.

I've also noticed that he looks after he very well. He'll open doors for her, buy her little gifts ... Whenever she's at our house, he'll always offer to get things for her (a drink, something to eat etc) and hand her the TV remote to let her decide what they watch.

Also, she gets very carsick. Once, after they'd travelled up in the car from Cork to Dublin, I noticed him carrying a little bag. I asked him what was in it and he told me it was a "carsick bag" he'd made up for her. It had various things in it, including Gingernut biscuits he bought, because he'd heard they helped settle stomachs.

I just think it's nice to see someone taking care of someone else and clearly appreciating what they have.
Makes me very proud to be his sister, when I see him acting like such an honourable and kind person.

wicklori

Feel obliged to contribute on the basis that I've been down the 'my heart is broken and it'll never be fixed road' and have found the fork!!!

I was with my ex for 8 and a half years. On again off againfor the last while. We finally broke up at Easter-horrible, horrible break up. DEVESTATION!

I got my head half around it and was having a great time. Organised a hen night and met the most amazing guy-who ended up at the wedding with me-even though he knew not a soul.

He is the love of my life. OP-this could easily be around the very next corner for you... You too could be hearing- 'sleep well beautiful' as he heads out the door to work early in the morning.....

netanyahu

I used to be absolutely shameful at getting up in the morning -
My ex and I were together almost 6 years, he was always amazing at getting up in the morning ; he'd be like 'hello.... anyone there', lifting my eyelids and stuff like that, just generally being gas to try and get my day kick started.

Super cute, but anyway- this particular morning he made me lunch for going to college because we had no money left from the previous night out. He never made me lunch and rarely made me dinner.

So i'm in his room trying to peel myself up for college and he comes in with a lunch bag for me- wrapped lunch size portions of things in tin foil, 2 cartons of juice, or 'saft' as we call it , he then points out that the sandwiches are 'HTML' sandwiches because it was my first day of starting my web design module at college. He then hands me a crossword book, a pen to kill some time on the train. (We always did crosswords together!)

When I get to college and take out my sandwiches, he's written my name on the bag like I was a small child; which is just gas. I burst out laughing and it still makes me smile to this day, and right enough the sandwiches were ham, tomato, mayo and lettuce.


We aren't together anymore but we're really good friends. I kept the bag - it's in my memory case! A proper laugh whenever I see it.

shellyboo

I have one that makes me sound like a total ogre But I shall tell it anyway.

When I lived with my ex, we were both working in the university we both went to. I had been out on a big night the previous evening, and when I came in I told him to wake me when he was going into college because I needed to get into the office early.

Well, wake me he did - I bitched him out of it, told him to leave me alone, I was hungover, no I *didn't* need to go into the office early, where did you get such an idea, just let me sleep ffs...

He left me be and headed out and I heard the door go. Ten minutes later I heard him come back in and into the bedroom - I pretended to be back asleep with my big cranky head on me! Anyway, had a snooze, and when I woke up I looked over at the bedside table: he'd gone to the shop, gotten me a big bottle of Coke, water, painkillers and chocolate for my hangover

I was totally mortified for being so horrible to him! Thankfully for him, we've broken up now. That poor boy.

Windwalker

I've been going out with my OH for nearly four years, unfortunately my Mom passed away before I met him.
My Dad had taken a photo of my mom getting ready to go out, I was fairly wee at the time so it's many years ago, but I absolutely love the photo. (I think she looks like a ballet dancer getting ready to go on stage.)
Anyway, I came home from work completely frazzled one day and there was a big brown paper parcel on the table and he told me it was for me. When I opened it he had taken the photo and blown it up, put an effect on it to cover the fact that it was an ancient photo and had it framed. It's now hanging up in our sitting room. I think I cried solidly for five hours!