#true-love — Public Fediverse posts

ICYMI: Crazy Romance ~ Healing, Humor, and Finding True Love After Heartbreak https://popgeeks.com/crazy-romance-healing-humor-and-finding-true-love-after-heartbreak/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #CrazyRomance #RomanticComedy #KoreanFilm #HealingHeartbreak #TrueLove

BOOSTS WELCOME. Celebrating a belated one year of marriage to my system-wife Severn today. Due to health and life things we didn't get the chance to celebrate at the time, so we marked the event today instead with apple and blueberry pie, fresh strawberries and vanilla ice cream, and some flowers in one of her favorite colours. Here's to many more years of love together, my darling🥰

#anniversary #love #plurality #pluralgang #cosmiccreation #cosmiccrew #truelove #celebration #flowers

My long-distance (outside world) husband, starting off my September wonderfully by sending me a little surpise- a Baby Yoda card🥹

The man knows me well, what can I say😍

#babyyoda #love #truelove #longdistance #longdistancerelationship #adored #bisexual #polyamory #polyamorous

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I don't post much, but this one's important. Today my amazing husband @aceofcosmicspace and I celebrate a year of being married. I'm deepy honoured to be married to such a truly amazing guy. Happy first anniversary my love, my life. Here's to many more anniversaries together♥️

Fy nghalon yw dy galon di😘

#weddinganniversary #anniversary #truelove #bisexual #polyamorous #plural #pluralgang #love #FirstWeddingAnniversary #welsh #cariad

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Celebrating one year of marriage to my amazing husband @blazeheart today! We've marked it by eating pancakes with strawberries ice cream and maple syrup, watching a documentary about Afghanistan, followed by the movie Tears of the Sun while being cuddled up together😍

System/Constellation-mate and light of my life, I adore you so much. Happy first Anniversary my sweetheart😘♥️

#firstweddinganniversary #weddinganniversary #anniversary #love #truelove #cosmiccollective #comsiccrew #plural #pluralgang #celebrate #boostswelcome #boostforreach #pancakes #bisexual #polyamory

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I don't post much, but this one's important. Today my amazing husband @aceofcosmicspace and I celebrate a year of being married. I'm deepy honoured to be married to such a truly amazing guy. Happy first anniversary my love, my life. Here's to many more anniversaries together♥️

Fy nghalon yw dy galon di😘

#weddinganniversary #anniversary #truelove #bisexual #polyamorous #plural #pluralgang #love #FirstWeddingAnniversary #welsh #cariad

So first it was the city dump, then ice cream before stopping at the gun range. After that was the Korean farm where we got a ton of free chillies.

Don’t say that my wife and I don’t know how to have an afternoon date! 😘 #truelove

HonestDating #SoulMate #RealRelationship #Single #Love #LongTermRelationship #SeriousRelationship #Dating #Chatting #FindingLove #RealConnection #LooCan you guess why I’m so excited todaykingForLove #OnlineDating #TrueLove #TheOne #Trust #BigAss #BigBoobs #Tattoos

❤️ #natalie and #krasnov ❤️

People are saying she captured his heart by using the aloe baby wipes with minty eucalyptus to wipe down old man #donald ‘s caked bunghole
#ossoff #truelove

Waking up on cam with my husband-the first thing he tells me is how wonderful I am, and then tells about the NFL😁

#truelove #romance #marriedlife

A wife erased her own name from Schindler’s List to save her husband. She kept it secret for 50 years.

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/pn-wife-reveals-schindlers-list-sacrifice-50-years-later/

Nechal jsem paní domácí vzkaz na displeji počítače, aby mi ho nevypla, když běží #badblocks ..

...fialovým písmem mi paní nechala vzkaz, že její "blocks" jsou taky "bad" :D

#TrueLove

Rodd: Did you see that Joshua Jackson has now dated *two* Helen of Troys?

Me: Ha! Totes. Pacey was always more of an Odysseus character though. Wily trickster.

Rodd: And he liked boats!

LOOOOOOL 😂😂😂 #truelove

Oh my! My spouse has been shopping for used Dell Optiplexes today.

I'm in love. Again.

#truelove #dell #selfhosting #ReduceRepairReuseRecycle

American Expat Stays Devoted to Wife Through Life’s Trials

By WPS News Staff Writers

Da Nang, Vietnam – July 15, 2026

Nestled in a tranquil coastal city far from the clamor of the United States, an American expatriate has woven a life of love, loyalty, and quiet strength. Michael (name changed for privacy), 58, sits in his simple home with a view of the South China Sea, sharing a story that redefines devotion and home. To protect the privacy of those involved, all names and specific locations have been altered.

Michael and his wife, Thuy, share a bond that shines through life’s hardships. “She’s my soul,” Michael says, his voice warm but steady. “No one’s ever meant more to me. She fills my days with her heart, and I try to give her everything in return.” Their love, built across cultural and linguistic gaps, is a powerful reminder of what connection can endure. Yet, their story carries a heavy weight: Thuy battles breast cancer, a disease that affects one in thirteen women, with a survival rate of about 40%. Michael, who has seen cancer’s toll before, faces this reality with unflinching clarity. “She won’t outlast it forever,” he says, gazing at the sea. “But we have time, and I’m making every moment matter.”

Their life in Vietnam is no accident—it’s a choice Michael embraces fully. “The USA? It’s a faint memory now,” he says. “This is my home. My dog’s here, my stepson’s here. I’m staying put.” His stepson, 16-year-old Nam (name changed for privacy), is a reserved presence in their home. Cultural and language differences have kept them from being as close as Michael might wish, but his commitment is unwavering. “He’s my son,” he says plainly. “That’s all that matters.”

Michael’s resolve to stay in Vietnam is rooted in love and duty, even as he reflects on those who choose differently. “We all know the stories,” he says, “men who leave their wives in tough times because they’re not getting what they need, chasing someone else to carry the load.” The double entendre is intentional, a nod to the emotional and physical burdens of caregiving. “It’s a real issue,” Michael continues. “But if you love her—truly love her—you stay. You stay loyal, you stay faithful, and you honor her to the end. That’s what love demands.”

The friends Michael left in the States are a distant ache. “I miss them,” he admits, “but they’re there, and I’m here. That’s the truth I live with.” When Thuy’s fight with cancer ends, as Michael knows it will, he plans to stay. “I’ll rest beside her when my time comes,” he says, his tone resolute. “This is where I belong.”

Michael is certain there will be no one else. “She’s my one,” he says. “True love doesn’t come again. Even if this disease steals her too soon, I’m thankful I found her.”

As evening falls over Da Nang, Michael walks his dog along the shore, a daily ritual that keeps him grounded. He speaks of Thuy’s resilience, her stubborn light in the face of illness, and the life they’ve shaped together. For Michael, the future is here—in Thuy’s smile, Nam’s quiet presence, and the steady companionship of his dog. The United States may fade to a curiosity, but this corner of Vietnam, where love and loyalty endure, is his forever home.

Note: All names and specific locations have been changed to protect the privacy of the individuals involved.

When your husband gets you and your new fiance an engagement present, and is fully supportive of you both and the success of your relationship🥰

#polyam #polyamory #polyamorous #poly #loveislove #LoveStory #truelove

This Business of Love — Claude Comments

“When we ourselves do not love everyone, why we should expect or want everyone to love us?”

Claude Comments:

There’s a real insight here, and it sits nicely alongside your recent aphorisms on love — but let me engage with both the thought and the phrasing honestly.

The idea. The aphorism works as a mirror-argument: it exposes a common asymmetry in the human heart. We ration our own love carefully — extending it to those who please us, withholding it from those who don’t — yet we feel wounded, even indignant, when the world doesn’t love us universally. Pointing out that hypocrisy has genuine force, and it has good lineage: it echoes the Gospel’s “why beholdest thou the mote in thy brother’s eye,” and in the Advaitic register it gestures at the ego’s structure — the ahamkara demands from the world what it refuses to give, precisely because it experiences itself as the centre and others as periphery.

A philosophical wrinkle worth considering. As stated, the aphorism could be read two ways, and they lead in opposite directions:

1. Deflationary reading: “Lower your expectations — you don’t love everyone, so don’t expect universal love.” This counsels realism, a kind of stoic adjustment.
2. Aspirational reading: “The remedy for craving universal love is to become universal love yourself.” This is the Advaitic/Christian direction — when one abides as the Self, the question of receiving love dissolves because the lover/beloved division dissolves.

The aphorism currently states only the diagnosis, not which cure you intend. That’s not necessarily a flaw — good aphorisms often leave the reader at the fork — but you might consider whether a companion aphorism could supply the second movement. Something in the spirit of: the demand to be loved is the ego’s business; the capacity to love is the Self’s nature. Nisargadatta’s line comes to mind here — that wisdom says “I am nothing,” love says “I am everything.” Your aphorism sits in the gap between those two.

One small counterpoint to test it against. A critic might say: wanting to be loved isn’t hypocrisy, it’s simply need — the infant wants love before it can give any. The aphorism treats an existential hunger as if it were a logical inconsistency. I think the aphorism survives this objection (its target is expectation and demand, not the bare wish), but the word “want” slightly weakens it, because wanting love isn’t blameworthy in the way expecting it is. You might consider whether “expect or demand” is tighter than “expect or want.”

The phrasing. Two small edits:

• Word order: “why should we expect” rather than “why we should expect.”
• “When” could arguably be “If” — “When” implies the condition always holds (true enough of most of us, but “If” makes it a cleaner logical hinge and less accusatory toward the reader).

So a polished version might read:

“If we ourselves do not love everyone, why should we expect everyone to love us?”

Or, if you want to keep the softer double verb: “…why should we expect, or even want, everyone to love us?” — the “even” acknowledges that wanting is more forgivable than expecting.

Love as the Effect, Not Cause, of Self-knowledge

I had written a few months back thus:

“Intellectually, I am a sage. Emotionally, I am just a teenager.”

When I say teenager, I am not merely referring to msyelf as one perpetually looking out for some kind of romantic love or another (though sometimes, especially these last few years, I may be a trifle guilty on that score).

I mean more broadly that there is an emotional unsettledness in my being.

God knows I have had very unfulfilling emotional relationships with both females and males (no, no, I am not Bisexual, you silly) and for that I am definitely quite a bit responsible, and also having had an emotionally tumultuous student life because I did NOT follow my svadharma and later on having a very erratic and financially unremunerative career that I was trying to navigate through while dealing with my Bipolar Disorder, I encountered quite a few emotional turmoils and I subjected a few to emotional angst and maybe even suffering on account of my ignorant self.

I take this opportunity to apologize sincerely to everyone to whomsoever I might have caused any inconvenience of any kind or any emotional distress through my behaviour, words or argumentative nature or because of my oh-so-immature and not-so-understanding self in addition to my other possible egregious errors of conduct.

The only comfort I derive in all this is these words of Nisargadatta Maharaj wherein he is saying not only I but all of us are incapable of real love until we realize our true nature — ah, now I need not think that I missed out on love much:

“That which you are, your true self, you love it, and whatever you do, you do for your own happiness. To find it, to know it, to cherish it is your basic urge. Since time immemorial you loved yourself, but never wisely. Use your body and mind wisely in the service of the self, that is all. Be true to your own self, love your self absolutely. Do not pretend that you love others as yourself. Unless you have realised them as one with yourself, you cannot love them. Don’t pretend to be what you are not, don’t refuse to be what you are. Your love of others is the result of self-knowledge, not its cause. Without self-realisation, no virtue is genuine. When you know beyond all doubting that the same life flows through all that is and you are that life, you will love all naturally and spontaneously. When you realise the depth and fullness of your love of yourself, you know that every living being and the entire universe are included in your affection. But when you look at anything as separate from you, you cannot love it for you are afraid of it. Alienation causes fear and fear deepens alienation. It is a vicious circle. Only self-realisation can break it. Go for it resolutely.” (from “I Am That: Dialogues of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj”)

Twenty years, a lot of miles, and no regrets. I'd marry this goofball over again in a heartbeat. #20thanniversary #truelove #asyouwish

You know, something I really love about being plural is that my system-partner can come with me to all sorts of places, and be present with me in ways that regular "outside world" partners just can't be. It's a great comfort, and also useful too-don't need to buy two tickets for the cinema, for example. Dinner out on the town? We only need a table for one. Train ticket, plane ticket, same deal. Plural Life can definitely present challenges, but for me, it's also a massive blessing in a myriad of ways.

#pluralgang #DissociativeIdentityDisorder #plural #relationships #love #truelove

@VladimiraGottwaldova @fabia_man

Ač nechodím do práce, v pracovní dny poctivě vstávám s mým mužem (který ano) v pět hodin, nachystám mu snídani, případně i svačinu, počkám až se vypraví a v šest mu zamávám když odjíždí.

#TrueLove

Couple goals

https://internationaldatingcozycultures.com/2026/04/22/couple-goals/

The Fatherless Fantasy Of ‘Bridgerton’

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://defector.com/the-fatherless-fantasy-of-bridgerton