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The “Kind” That Binds – Love (almost lost) Story#2

Wednesday, April 24th, 2013

When asked, clients tell me that their Top 3 “Must Haves” while looking for love are: funny, smart, and stable financially (and otherwise!).

Personally I would swap out one for “kind”, you know, the type that blinds and binds even when you walk away. So alluring and so seductive when you meet someone who walks the talk, unafraid to commit to humankind, modest when recounting the joy in helping others.

Endearing, touching, selfless, it’s rare to find this “kind”. But when you do, it hits you between the eyes… and like chocolate, craving more. Life IS like a box of chocolates, Forest! I’ll take two boxes, please.

Courmeyer Italian Chocolates

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The Truth Hurts

Tuesday, July 31st, 2012

It truly does.

If there’s a price on love, how would you go about it? Is everything “yours, mine, and ours” or would you dump it all under “ours”?

Do you fall in love, all in, head over heels, no turning back, merging lives, merging bank accounts? You believe love is forever eternal, mutual trust, 100%, no questions asked, no doubt, no turning back. “I love you with all my …. assets?” Love will keep us together.

Or do you keep one foot on the dock and one foot in the boat, hedging, anticipating, planning for D(ivorce) Day, maintaining separate bank accounts (maybe trending towards separate beds…just saying), nothing ventured, nothing gained? “Honey, I’m buying us a house but it’s MINE, lock, stock, and barrel. And to make sure what’s mine is mine, MY lawyer just dropped off the papers. JUST SIGN HERE…JUST IN CASE…JUST SAYING…How much is your “love” is worth?

How about a happy medium? There’s a couple I know, 30+ years together, her hand in his, one joint bank account for sharing “household” expenditures. “Isn’t YOUR turn to pay?” Is the price of love worth the cost of dinner for two… “But darling, didn’t we agree that this is a household item? Just saying….where is the love? It could be there. After all….30 years of wrangling must be worth something.

Finally a couple who after many years living together decides to get hitched to shout out their love to the whole wide world…until prospective hubby comes home, clutching a receipt and says, “Your half of the ring is $$$. Will that be VISA or Mastercard?”

Some things are better left unsaid. Just saying…Period. C’est fini! THE END

Tags: boat, lawyer, ring
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Love Not Lost? – by My Niece & I

Sunday, July 29th, 2012

Then where is the love?

Stop and take a look around.

Open mind, open heart, love at long last….

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LOVE TAKES FLIGHT

Sunday, April 15th, 2012

Love Is In The Air

Flinging their bags into the plane’s overhead compartments, they exchange their first of many furtive glances. She notes his female companion. He notes her!

On his 4th trip to the washroom at the back, he finds himself trapped behind the drinks cart. She keeps one eye on her iPad and the other on his return but after a few moments, wonders where could he possibly have gone?

She gets up, walks towards the back, and there they were, in the company of the flight attendants, grinning across the Diet Cokes and Mott’s Clamato.

They settle in for their short island hop. He nods off with his head resting on his companion’s shoulder. She continues to tap tap tap on her iPad.

Stuck at the baggage carousel, his companion spies Her, nudges Him, and whispers, “There she is. Go on, she’s The One!” He walks over, shyly but smiling broadly, and offers a hand with her luggage. He then introduces himself and his sister to Her. They both exclaim now at the restaurant last night in the company of friends, “The rest is history! Love was in the air…and now on the ground!”