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Valentine’s Day Special: Understanding love and relationships

Dear lovely writers,

We thank all of you who submitted their stories for the Valentine’s Day Special and who wanted to submit but didn’t manage to sit down and bleed. It’s tough to share love stories, isn’t it?

Anyway, we have published nine lovely stories on love and relationships on Valentine’s Day, February 14, 2021.

We hope you have already read those beautiful stories. If not, here you go. Get the snippet from below, and then start reading more by clicking the attached links. Read the love stories to expand your understanding of love and relationships.

Let’s dive into the world of love.

Rethinking Valentine’s Day — From Someone Who Hates It

written by Lori Axler Miranda

Ironically, college is where I met my husband, although it’s worth noting that our relationship almost got thwarted by a misunderstanding about…you guessed it…Valentine’s Day.

The Reader’s Digest version is that his friend told him I probably had expectations about the day, which I didn’t (I had made plans with friends and had a great night that I still remember).

But it was enough to spook him so he became distant, which I took to mean he wasn’t that interested…(read more)

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My Broken Heart — Slightly Stained and Kind of Skewed

written by Evelyn Marentette

An acquaintance introduced me to this man. A man whose sheer presence rooted my feet to the floor integrated my heart to his. He held out his hand. I did not. Cognizant of our audience, I held my breath and placed my hand in his. Strong, warm fingers closed around mine.

Blood coursed through my veins like I struggled to hold onto the side of a raft while traversing a set of rapids. The sound of a thousand drums reverberated in my ears, and when he spoke to me, I could not hear.

I uttered a response. Something intangible. Breathless, I did not recognize my voice. If I did not know better, I would have sworn I had run a… (read more)

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How I Met Your Mother

written by Walter Bowne

Earlier that night, before her name, I was feeling sorry for myself. At the time, this was common. My moods shifted between the morose, the melancholy, and the macabre. Pick any “m” you choose. I was supposed to see a woman. And you know the names. It’s a tale “as old as time” in romantic fiction, like Goethe’s “The Sorrows of Young Werther.”

Grief can nourish for only so long. I foolishly believed such grief to be romantic, a knight wanting to rescue the princess, a Gatsby-like quest for a “golden girl,” but I decided once and for all, once again, to forget the pain of the past and the present.

Could my life be refreshed? Restarted? Rebooted?… (read more)

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We Were Born on the Same Day

written by Felipe Xavier

It was just magical, I can tell you that. I watched her through the rest of the evening but I didn’t have the guts to talk to her. And that was on and for the next few weeks that I started going to that church. I would see her all the time but never speak with her. I did not know how to approach her.

I started hanging out with a bunch of people from the church and this guy reached out to me and started talking, kinda welcoming me into that new social group, let’s call him Bruno.

It was a great way for me to meet people but I was really interested in meeting someone specifically…(read more)

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How I Met My Best Friend in My Favorite City in the World

written by Macey Malone

Most friendship stories entail wearing matching pajamas or checking boys out, having sleepovers, or even giving bad advice. As much as would have liked to do all silly and fun things, we didn’t and couldn’t do any of such activities. Instead, my best friend held me strong as a pillar during the most crucial times of my life.

There were days when I used to live on a tight budget. I worked very hard and still didn’t have enough to buy some basic necessities most times. But she became my family when I needed her the most. Supported me during days when I didn’t have much hope left in my… (read more)

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How Our Slow Dance of Friendship Led Us To Love

written by Elle How

He worked for a while, and when he was done, he sat down to talk. That was the last thing I wanted. I needed time to reflect on my issues, but he wasn’t about to let me go there. He stayed and chatted about all manner of things until I felt better.

It was nicer than I expected. Unbeknown to me, he had come there to check on something that he wasn’t sure he’d checked on before for the annual test. He said he’d forgotten to mark it down. Okay, so all was good. No longer suspicious, I let it go.

It was around Christmas time the next time we met. He stopped in to pick up some presents I’d purchased for his… (read more)

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My First Date

written by Yve Laran

The party where we met was not a backyard party, though. It was in a beautiful house, with a grand living room.

Even though twenty of us were in the living room, I felt like T.J. was the only person there that I wanted to talk to. I felt completely infatuated for the first time.

The next day, one of my friends called, and we talked for hours as only eighth-graders do when they have a crush on a boy in school. Of course, it didn’t take T.J. long to find out I liked him, and he asked me out…(read more)

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The Moment I Realized I Had Fallen in Love

written by Esther George

“Hello!”

Surprised by its sudden emergence, I intentionally redirect my attention elsewhere. But this stubborn little blob of energy exhibits a dogged determination. No matter what I did, it refused to change its course. It shied to the back of the room momentarily and before long; it reappeared again.

Intrusive thoughts are like ripples in a pond which is our mind, generating waves of pattern radiating outward. When you throw a rock, which is a thought, it disrupts the calmness of the pond… (read more)

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Why This Year’s Love Will Smash Last Year’s

written by Beat Schindler

“You don’t know what love is until you know the meaning of the blues” wasn’t the first Chet Baker record, nor the first love song I had ever heard, but thanks to Valentine, patron saint of epilepsy and love I’m told, love is on the calendar in February.

And because I have, against all odds, survived the window-episode, I’m thinking of that Chet Baker tune now, as we speak.

I don’t know the costliest of all mistakes any more than the priciest of all takes. But I guess everybody knows what decisions later regretted are all about. And on the scale of regrets, those due to not knowing what love is are pretty costly… (read more)

To Conclude

Read the above love stories and feel the emotion flowing underneath each of them. Expand your idea of love and relationships by exploring the experiences of others.

We have decided to keep the Valentine’s Day Special tab on our publication till February 28, 2021, so that our readers get quick access to these beautiful stories. Moreover, if you are thinking about sharing your love stories, you can do that as well, following our guidelines. Your stories will eventually be added to this collection.

Let’s make the world a lovely place to live in. Let’s spread the stories of love.

Thank you.

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