Sweet Messy Love....

This is essentially the best piece of advice I have ever gotten and can ever give.  Why? Because if you are not happy with yourself, then why would you be happy with someone else?  I had a friend who broke up with a boyfriend of many years and she started dating almost straight away. But it was not just dating she wanted that soon to have a ring on her finger kind of relationship. The one you kind of need to take time to find. I was a bit worried and I asked her why, asked why she wasn't taking some time for herself, why such a rush to go into another relationship. Her response was that she wanted someone to make her feel wanted, beautiful and loved. I replied and asked her why she couldn't feel that way about herself and she said she didn't and needed someone else to feel it for her.  How sad I thought but also boring for the other person If you are going into a relationship simply because you need to feel loved than you need to take a good hard look at yo...

Love can be hard to find, harder to hang onto and almost impossible to find that fairy tale ending that so many of us want but this beautiful girl found it and had her Happily Ever After and this is her stunning story.... Right the Story of Jonathon and Elizabeth... once upon a time ( well it is kinda like a fairy tale) Jonathon lived in Cambridge, I had moved back to my parents after a horrific break up and physical attack by my ex - he was high on drugs and pushed me down the stairs 6 months pregnant then left me to miscarry at the front door. Once out of hospital I was bored, lonely, depressed and skint so i spent a lot of time online back in those days there was MSN chat rooms.... i was online in one, just chatting with whoever, when a random online profile messaged me. it was Jonathon. well Jonathon was a spurs fan, liked holidays, single and seemed nice. we chatted about football, travelling - or my dream to go round the world- and stuf...

When one thinks of love stories it can be really easy to think of happy endings and sweet moments but not even the ancient stories when Gods and Goddesses were thought to walk amongst everyone were they wrapped so neatly in a bow. They were messy and big and did selfish things for love. None more so than the Greek Goddess of Love herself.... Once upon a time there was a Goddess. She was born of the sea and blood, said to be the most beautiful, the most desired and lovely of all the Goddesses. She was Aphrodite. She was said to be so beautiful that the other Goddesses grew jealous, angry and so the Queen of the Greek Gods Hera decided to force Aphrodite to marry her son Hephaestus the God of Blacksmiths, a God able to create beautiful things yet known to be the ugliest of them all and crippled with a limp. The marriage was not happy, childless with a husband who she felt did not deserve her she looked else where and her eyes quickly found Ares, the God of War. Tall, handsome, st...

Long distance relationships can be so hard. While phones and the internet have made contact and talking easier, it's not the same as being able to see the person your heart wants, to be able to touch and hug and kiss. But for those that are willing to be patient and put into the effort, it is worth the wait. This beautiful story is about such a relationship, written by the gorgeous Vicki.... So I've been with my fiancé, David, for just over ten years. It was like a weird coincidence because simply - we met online. I had just had my heart broken by the ending of a 2 1/2 year relationship and me and my best friend were online on msn messenger (back on the day) when we started chatting to this guy she knew online. Anyway, we were all chatting on webcam and i decided it would be fun to swap numbers with this guy called David so we could carry on text messaging and chatting.  It was my summer holidays, I was 17 and I was bored so I just went for it. Carry on a few m...

Like a snowflake each persons love story (or stories) are different. No one has the same one, it's one of the real beauties of listening to how people met, how they courted and fell in love. This is what this section is for. I want people to tell their stories. The good, the bad, the wonderful and even the broken hearted ones. It's up to you what you want to tell if you want to share.  But this is mine, a classic girl meets boy tale. I had one boyfriend before I met my now husband, one who had taken my heart and my trust and not just stepped on it but smashed it and ripped it to shreds along with any confidence I had about myself.  Then, much to my embarrassment, jumped on an online dating site on the advice of an aunt. It took a few weeks but I met a man. First a click to like, then he sent the questions. He went through every set of hurdles that this dating thing did. You know the Q and A's of would you rather or what would you do if.... I loved it. It was...

Hey Lovelies, Falling in love can feel so easy, the Honeymoon period is such a dream and then comes the part after. The part where roots are put down and you get down to the harder part of the relationship, the time when decisions are made, where you may move into together, decide to get married or start a family or travel but it if generally the part where you start to see more of who a person is and how they decide or do things in everyday life.  It's also the part where you can start to fall into a rut as you find your rhythm as a couple and start to fit your everyday lives together. Which is such a fun time in itself but can become monotonous as you fall into a groove or stop trying as much as you used to and sometimes love can fade as each of you don't do those little things to show that you're thinking of them or do anything special anymore. Which can lead the relationship to getting boring or upsetting as neither of you feel appreciated and loved and it s...