This love story will warm your heart

She ignored me all through high school and now we are married for 58 years…

Not every relationship needs to start with love at first sight, as Maudie’s and John’s love story will tell you.

Maudie and I have been married for 58 years, but it most certainly was not love at first sight.

We both grew up in Mobile, Alabama, and entered Murphy High School in 1953 as freshmen. Mobile had high school fraternities and sororities then and still does—social organizations, but unlike the ones in college. By the second semester of my sophomore year, I had joined a fraternity. In civics class I sat by two sorority girls. The three of us talked so much during class that the teacher split us up.

She moved me next to a girl named Maudie. The only thing I knew about Maudie was that she was best friends with the daughter of the prominent pastor at the largest Baptist church in Mobile. As far as I was concerned, that was all I needed to know about her. And Maudie knew all she wanted to know about me.

In our junior year, we were in the same bookkeeping class. I liked the class but I had some trouble with the problems. I knew Maudie was smart, so I asked her to show me what I was doing wrong. Without a word, she let me know she had no desire to help me. So I asked another classmate.

Then in our senior year, I started working in a grocery store. Maudie came in weekly with her mother and seemed to be a different person. We talked as I bagged the groceries and I realized that I had changed, too.

One night as I took the groceries out for her, I asked if she wanted to hang out and go for a ride when I got off work, but she said she had to drive her mother home. I felt rejected but found out later that she was hoping I would offer to pick her up after work.

Several days later I drove past her as she walked home from school and offered her a ride. She accepted and I quickly asked her for a date to a revival at our church—I’d picked the revival on purpose, thinking she’d be more likely to accept. And she did. We continued to date steadily until that prominent Baptist preacher married us on April 3, 1959.

-         John Douglas Green

# Romantic stories #

We all are sucker for romantic stories. Stories that have survived the hardest challenges to bring two people in love together. We all love to hear / read such stories – it restores our faith in the power of love. Here are a few romantic stories to warm your heart-

Donna Lou Baner recounts hers- One day in junior high, I went to the movies. I sat with friends behind a row of boys from our class. The boy in front of me turned around and planted a kiss on me. When I got home, my parents asked me about the movie. I drew a blank. I couldn’t remember anything after the kiss. I’ve been happily married to that boy for 41 years.

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My first marriage ended in divorce. Although, I began to date again, but that failure stayed with me. After seeing a wonderful woman for several months, I told her that I didn’t think we had a future—I was still fragile from the breakup. She said, “If you’re too stupid to see I’m the best thing that ever happened to you, then go.” We just celebrated our 36th wedding anniversary because she was right. —Donald Ropson, Wisconsin.

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Priyanka Prasad from Virginia confesses- being from a conservative Indian family, my parents and I spent years searching for a suitable match for me. On that journey was a friend who stood by me through thick and thin. In the 14 years that we went from classmates to best friends, I never once consciously thought of him as a lover. I tried remembering the exact moment I’d fallen for him by reliving all those moments that had made us laugh, fight, cry, and ache for each other. I could not recall any, however hard I tried. Then it all made sense to me at the altar on our wedding day. I had been in love with him all along.

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Darlene Miller candidly shares her dilemma: I was caught between should I pursue my dream of becoming a nun or continue this relationship with my boyfriend? To decide, I gave up both him and cigarettes for the 40 days of Lent. On Holy Saturday, the final day of Lent, a knock came at the door. He stood there, holding out a cigarette for me. One deep drag made me dizzy. He caught me and helped me sit on the step. At that moment, wrapped in his arms, I knew I was never giving him up again.

Aren’t these the most romantic stories you ever heard?

Strap - Married couples share the touching ways they proposed and got engaged

Women usually love reading romantic stories and fantasize about how they would like to be proposed to. They love imagining their partners getting down on one knee and proposing with a huge ring in a romantic setting.

Dating and love confessions pages are full of the fantasies women experience. The fantasies range from quirky to tear-jerking - one woman imagined her disabled partner walking for the first time and managing to get down on one knee in order to pop the question.

A man confessed that he wanted his proposal to be special and romantic, so he decided to slip a ring on his girlfriend's finger while she was sleeping. She woke up to him asking for her hand in marriage.

Another young lover customized his proposal according to his partner's niche interests -which - happened to be Pokemon.

The romantic story of how you proposed will be told not just to friends but also to strangers for the rest of your lives. Hence, men and women in love try to make efforts to propose using romantic and foolproof proposal ideas.

A young lady arranged a surprise proposal for her 5 year long boyfriend with a street caricaturist. She had the caricaturist sketch a picture of both of them with word bubbles that said, "Will you marry me?" and "Yes!"

A clichéd but full proof romantic way of proposing is to go out for a night of dancing and requesting the DJ to pass on the mike to you so that you can dedicate a song and propose on the dance floor.

Another mushy mushy idea is to go for a long long drive, followed by a candle light dinner. Have a drink in the bar prior to the dinner. Get the hotel staff in loop and have candles, roses and champagne all set up in your hotel room – an easy but sure shot surprise proposal that can woo any woman for you.

Another idea to make your proposal to the list of top romantic stories for ever is to ask a friend take photos of you posing with posters that say, "will," "you," "marry" and "me." Make plans to meet your ‘special one’ on the D-day and before they reach the destination, text the photos in order.