Have You Found Your One True Love?
This is going to be short.
Three years ago, I wrote the book, How To Find Your One True Love.
It became an instant bestseller. And the book rocked the world of many singles.
Since then, I’ve heard wonderful stories of how many singles followed the instructions of that book and have indeed found their one true love. (Yep, I’ve received a number of nice wedding invitations.)
I’ve also heard of single women who broke up with their boyfriends because the book made them realize they were jerks and were going to be terrible husbands.
One girl told me, “Brother Bo, because of your book, I finally woke up from my insanity and got rid of my playboy, gambling, and drunkard boyfriend. Thank you!”
I was enjoying her compliment until she said, “But Brother Bo, please be careful. My Ex is also a member of the local Yakuza and wants to kill you.”
Alas, the risk of being an author. (Bodyguards are welcome.) But I’m happy that the book saved many singles from a lifetime of misery.
Let me tell you a dream: I want to write a book entitled 40 Stories of Finding Your One True Love. Yes, I want to include your love stories.
Answer this question: How did you find your one true love?
My goal is to inspire singles and guide them to find their one true love through your true-to-life Love Stories.
In a few lines, write me a brief summary of your love story in the “comments” section. Inspire others! Encourage the 100,000+ people who read this blog.
And just in case your story gets selected by our editors, they’ll e-mail you; write a fuller story about you, so we could include your story in my coming book, 40 Stories of Finding Your One True Love.
Thank you for helping me inspire the world.
May your dreams come true,
Bo Sanchez
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We fell in love through blogging. We believe blogging is simply like a personal diary and where you can express your thoughts and emotions. We exchanged our feelings there and through the guidance of Bo’s book, I have learned to discern that love is indeed powerful and can change lives. Love knows no boundary, no gender and no religion
We fell in love through blogging. We believe blogging is simply like a personal diary and where you can express your thoughts and emotions. We exchanged our feelings there and through the guidance of Bo’s book, I have learned to discern that love is indeed powerful and can change lives.
We fell in love through blogging. We believe blogging is simply like a personal diary and where you can express your thoughts and emotions. We exchanged our feelings there and through the guidance of Bo’s book, I have learned to discern that loving need not be blind, just needs to be guided by emotional and spiritual pointers.
My partner and I fell in love through blog. We believe blogging is simply like a personal diary and where you can express your thoughts and emotions. We exchanged our feelings there and through the guidance of Bo’s book, I have learned to discern that loving need not be blind, just needs to be guided by emotional and spiritual pointers.
My partner and I fell in love through blog. We exchanged our feelings there and through the guidance of Bo’s book, I have learned to discern that loving need not be blind, just needs to be guided by emotional and spiritual pointers.
My partner and I fell in love through blog. We exchanged our feelings there. I have learned to discern that loving need not be blind, just needs to be guided by emotional and spiritual pointers.
My partner and I fell in love through blog.
We started out as friends in college. We both belonged to a religious org in our university. He was one of the “Kuyas” in the org. From being friends, we became close friends to best friends. Our relationship was nurtured by the letters we wrote each other everyday. Yep, we wrote letters to each other even if we always had lunch together daily. As our friendship grew deeper, our love for each other sprouted.. Being an independent person, I remember one time, I prayed that God send me a constant lunchmate. He was the answer to my prayer. We’re married now and we continue to have lunch together daily. Our lunch dates helps keep our friendship, love , and marriage alive.
This is the story of my parents. My mom was a professed nun for more than 5 years. She enjoyed being in the convent very much. But, a time came when she had to leave the convent to help her parents support in the education of her sisters. When she left the convent she had every intention of going back and even join the Pink Sisters. Once she was out, she got a job in construction and since it paid well, she was able to have a house built in SSS Village, Marikina. At that time, a building inspector found out that my mom’s house had some property line violation of sorts so he had to order the construction to be stopped. That inspector was my dad. My mom only learned that he liked her when her neighbor asked if the “inspector” was courting her and if she like him. She told her neighbor that the inspector was just there inspecting although she was starting to take notice of him and liked him. What my mom didn’t know was that her neighbor was my dad’s first cousin! My dad got enough courage after that and started pursuing her. In a year’s time after they met, they were married and the nuns in her previous congregation was the choir in the wedding. This just shows how God’s hands showed my mom the vocation that was meant for her.
Dear Kuya Bo,
I had read that book but I didn’t realize that it’s been three years ago when you published it. Time flies so quickly.
Anyway, I do have a boyfriend now but at the time that I read that book, he’s already my boyfriend. He’s my second boyfriend and I believe he’s going to be the last. Let me first share you the story of my first relationship. I decided not to get into a relationship when I was in high school. Aside from the fact that my mother was strict then, I thought I was not really fit to enter into any romantic relationship that time. So I had my first one when I entered college. Actually, it was not a serious one. We just had a “deal” of acting like a bf-gf. But then after some months, our feelings developed and that relationship lasted for 7 months.
It’s true that when in terms of love, there’s no certainty unless God has really put you together. My first boyfriend cheated me. He fell in love with his bestfriend who was also our classmate then. He told me before that it was impossible for them to be romantically linked to one another since they’re just like siblings. In other words, that didn’t happen. He courted the girl even if we still had no formal break up. I should have known that something was going on between them. I was just 19 during that time, and the most painful thing about it was that I was betrayed. My bestfriend was the one who told me the real thing; my ex maybe didn’t have enough courage to tell me. Nearly every one would advise me to get angry and get even with them. Believe me, I was so frustrated not because I loved the guy but because they crushed my pride. I was not the type who would run after a guy, I can’t even think of chasing someone who lied to me and broke my trust. BUt then I realized, there’s so much to life than holding on to any regret or hurt feelings. I was not a superhero, I was and will always be a human, and a woman. But I learned to let go and forgive them within just two weeks. And boy, the feeling was so liberating. That was one of the best decisions I ever made.
You might think that I get traumatized because of that experience. Nope, although I didn’t know that someone even greater and I think the best man I will ever meet, will come along the way. Few months had passed, I met my former highschool classmate. Okay, the story was funny, but I was never ashamed to share how we met again after 3 years. It was summer vacation then, I was turning 20 and was struggling to find a job. I was really broke, and I would start my job hunting without enough money for food. I attended a seminar in a networking company in Tektite. It was a good company, their product was good and I think it was really legal. I thought it might save me from being broke and financially struggling. However, I needed to find a referral to buy their product if I didn’t have money to buy it myself. I texted my friends in high school who were already working then. My high school bestfriend refused because she didn’t have enough money. So I texted Paulo. He was my high school sweetheart. As corny as it may sound, it’s true. We were always teased by our classmates then and he (or we) would always blush when they make us the center of attraction. But few years later, I was surprised to see him more confident, not to say that he even grew taller. (He stands 5′10 while I’m only 5 flat.) He lent me some money, and dear. It was not enough to buy the product of the MLM company, so I spent it for household expenses. Our family didn’t have enough money then, so the money Paulo lent me was such a big help.
After that day, we would meet at the mall. He would always have time to see me after his work. I started working in a weekend job after few weeks and he would fetch me even if his office was too far from the mall where I was working. I had never felt so much appreciated until that time.. and until now. To cut the story short (since it was too way long, ha ha!) we became officially bf-gf. And now I’m working like him, and we share the same building. So we always see each other. I think there are so many things that can make a relationship worth keeping. And God is blessing us indeed. Thanks to Him.
We may be young at age but believe me Bro. Bo, he was the most patient man I ever met. I could feel that he loves me more than himself. I believe that when you want to get respected and be loved by a man, you have to love yourself first. But please pray for me because I tend to hurt him emotionally. I don’t know how long will he be able to stand my impatience, but he told me that he will not look for any other girl because he had already found everything in me. Some people may be cynical, but I am not a fool. I know when a man is serious or not. And with him, I want to hate myself sometimes. Because I feel like I don’t deserve him. Yet, he is the one God has given me. What’s the most lovely thing about our relationship is that we’re growing together. I grow, Kuya Bo. I become more mature and so is he. I’m not asking for any signs from God whether he’ll be the last one for me or not. Because I know that the decision is still upon us. But we should of course be aware of His signals.Thus, I encourage all the singles and the broken hearted women out there- don’t be so desperate in love. When a guy is good and worth keeping, love him. But when he doesn’t respect you, oh please. As what I have always told my friends, “lalaki lang yan.” And I even say it to my boyfriend, “Hindi ako pinalaki ng parents ko para saktan ng isang lalaki.” Yes, I’m a feminist Kuya Bo. That’s why I believe those women who hang on to an upsetting, frustrating, heart crushing relationship, are not wholly capable of being loved. Because they don’t love themselves. Some people will not agree with me but still, I believe we have to love ourselves first- wholly, completely, yet unselfishly. Because we are precious in the eyes of God, and in the eyes of our own parents. As I put it, “Aanhin pa ang relasyon kung unti unti ka naman pinapatay?”
I hope some who will read it will not curse me, but I just want to awaken those women who depend on men for their own happiness. Ang gusto ko pa sana, mabawasan na ang mga lalaking nananakit, and that will only happen if the women themselves will be wise enough to stand for their own rights. Yun lang po. Thanks for inspiring us. Makikita na po kita malapit na, Kuya Bo! I’m so happy! God bless po!
Anne ^.^
Pasensya na po kung mahaba. Aspiring writer po kasi ako. And you’re one of my idols. Ha ha!
Naku poh! Pasensya na! Di ko po yun balak isubmit dahil masyado mahaba, isave ko na lang po sana sa email ko, pero hindi na po naretrieve. Ha ha! Nagloloko po kasi yung PC. Sori tlaga Kuya Bo, nahiya ako baka mahilo kayo sa pagbasa. It’s useless to edit it now, so sana po basahin nyo na lang ng mabilis. Ha ha! It’s for other singls naman po eh, kaya okay na ren po siguro.
Sorry.^^
My husband Jay and i came to know each other as parish choirs in our community back in 2000. After a few more Sundays together, we started talking and eventually became good friends. He was my ‘closest guy friend whom i secretly liked a lot’, and i was his ‘ultimate secret love’. the friendship remained over the years with house-visits, night-outs, etc. — it was the perfect friendship between a guy a girl, i must say. I almost made myself believe that it’s possible for a guy and a gal to have the kind of bond that we have yet won’t develop into a romantic relationship. But as things turned out, i was wrong.
He went out of the country on 2005. as expected, we remained in touch and kept the friendship flame burning. he went back for a vacation in 2006 and we decided to go to Bora for a weekend swim. i had a boyfriend for 5 years at the time which had been asking me to get married that same year. but i’ve been having second thoughts on the relationship and kept turning down his proposal for years. i wasnt ready and i knew that the relationship isnt right.
In bora, Jay poured out everything. i didnt know that he has loved me for so long. i learned that he wanted to at least tell me his true feelings before i decide to seriously commit myself in marriage with another guy. i was confused, didnt know what to do because i also have feelings for him but was in a relationship at the time. so i broke up with my bf, gave myself breathing space to think and asked a LOT of help for the Lord’s guidance (i guess prayers really do get answered).
after much thought, i decided to be with him. after a year of relationship, and being at the peak of my career (i was a presidential appointee at the time), i packed my bags and went to Dubai. I knew that i had to go to make the relationship work. i knew i made the right choice.
we’ve been thinking really hard how we ended up with each other. we have our own share of many differences which we’d almost always argue/debate on, our evil sides, our patience-tester attitudes…plus the fact that we were miles apart (and i never believed in long-distance relationships!)
but i guess what made us stick to each other for years as friends and now as lovers are actually the many similarities we have.
we both love good food, movies, adventures and travels, humor, music, a good conversation, sleeping, massages, tight hugs, kisses, beaches, sunsets..but most importantly is our drive to constantly improve ourselves..and im glad we’ve been each other’s constant guide and conscience since we started.
then there’s love. love for our family and friends. love for each other.
the commitment to keep our own family intact, God-centered/fearing, and ensure that we inculcate important traditions and values in life. the commitment to put the family first over anything else.
and our commitment to cherish, love and respect each other for the rest of our lives..
and these similarities outwit, outplay and outlast all the differences we have identified from the beginning.
so what can i say after our bora getaway and one year of marriage? it would be understatement that im happy/glad that he has finally gotten himself into a “serious and long-lasting type of relationship.” i’ve witnessed my “closest guy friend” grow up right before my eyes. no, i did not just marry my closest guy friend. im married the guy that i’ve always cherished and loved…and came to love more for his good heart and soul.
After reading the book, I gave myself time to improve my confidence, communication skills with the opposite sex and simply love myself.
Two years ago, there were new hires in our office who were introduced to us, one of them is Philip. At that time, someone else is courting me. So during group outings and get-togethers, I simply treat Philip as a friend and all our conversations were polite and friendly.
Six months later, I told my then suitor, that we are better off as friends. He was a good friend but I wasn’t ready for a serious commitment with him so I gave him the permission to court somebody else afterwards.
Later on, I constantly went out with my office barkada but I became particularly close to Philip. At that time, I noticed some of his personal traits that were unique from the rest of my officemates. Aside from the fact that he constantly attends weekly bible studies with the Singles for Christ, he is makwento when it comes to his family, he likes to crack ‘clean’ jokes to make everyone around him have fun and is willing to accompany me to the gym and occasionally to dinner (hint, hint!).
There came a time when I finally felt completely at ease with Philip that I started to like him. Before that, I usually get jitters when talking to someone I like, but with him I feel that I can be myself, only better.
I took a two-week vacation on September of last year with my family. Philip remained to be my constant text buddy.
Because of the free time I had during the vacation, I prayed to the Lord and asked that He reveal his will on me. I realized that I really like Philip from then on. He would also tell me that he misses me and can’t wait to see me again.
When my vacation was over, I am already sure that I am ready for a romantic relationship with Philip. But the catch is, I will not tell him so unless he will profess that he loves me too.
A few weeks later, he invited me to dinner on a Friday. I think one of his traits is being so transparent in his actions and words. This led me to think that something is up with him.
That night, he held my hand and professed his love to me. Suddenly, I don’t know if I heard him say the right words. I was still trying to understand what he had just told me.
After I pulled myself together and mustered all my courage, I told him what I know in my heart is true. That I love him too. It has been one year since that time that I had my first boyfriend (I’m now 24 years old). I also found out later that he too, read the book “How to Find Your One True Love”, a year before we became a couple and the book helped us a lot.
There were some communication problems that we have to settle along the way, but I found out that openness and a kind heart can withstand any barrier that comes between the two of us. I thank the Lord for giving me someone who is not only a caring boyfriend, but also a God-fearing friend.
well, i haven’t found my one true love. It’s not easy to follow your list of to do’s. What struck me was your list of non-negotiables, it helps to be reminded not to settle for anything less.
Have I found my one true love? My answer would definitely be, yes!
Joven and I met when we were in grade one. We were classmates almost every year. He was the brainy class president, I was the sociable (read: talkative) teacher’s pet. Through the six years we knew each other, I still cannot recall any conversation we had. All I remember was that, he was the class president and he most of the time writes my name on the “noisy list.” This maybe explains why I don’t have good memories of him. We graduated from elementary and lost touch.
Fast forward thirteen years later…
After a number of failed relationships, I was not yet ready to have another one.
One day, I was browsing through my Friendster account when I saw a former elementary classmate. I added him as a friend and looked into his friends list to look for other people I might know. On his list I saw a certain Joven. I looked at his picture but I couldn’t recognize him, the picture was blurred. Anyhow, I still added this Joven seeing that we have mutual friends from my elementary days. This eventually opened doors to nightly group chats with our former classmates who are too eager to meet again. We arranged a mini reunion and that was the first time we saw each other again.
To make the long story short, we started texting each other. These texts led to dates and in time, we became an “us.”
Two years ago, we got married on a wonderful sunny day in June.
Now, we have a delightful 10-month-old daughter whom we love to bits.
My one true love? I found him in Friendster. Hahaha!
It was not easy for me have my one tru love, we were choirmate, became friends and eventually courted her, but that wasn’t easy, she busted me several time, but I know in my heart that she is my one true love,
I even had a deal with the Lord, I told Him “if after 2 years of courting her, and nop positive result I will stop courting her”, she busted me 6 times total until 10 minutes before the deadline she said yes…. we got married more than to years ago.
Prayers really works, I never stop from believing that she will love me in return, I found in her the traits that I look for a girl, Thank GOD He answers my prayer.
Hi Brother Bo,
Finally, here’s my chance to share God’s Greatest gift to me…..MY ONE TRUE LOVE.
I was one of those privileged to attend your 1ST ever offer of How to Find Your One True Love Seminar back in May 2006. And now, I am HAPPILY MARRIED since December 2007. And true to your word, I got married in less than 2 years……so you need not refund me the seminar fee. =)
Anyway, I was single and broken hearted in Jan 2006. When I attended your seminar…..I was so determined to really finding my one true love. I followed almost everything you taught in that seminar…..i identified my internal blocks, I listed down my non-negotiable qualities and even the wish list/bonus quality and prayed for it (I’ve always wanted a VIRGIN as a husband, hehehe….btw, I’m 30yrs old), I followed the MEET 3 NEW MEN A WEEK assignment (I really dated every week and I enjoyed it!), I went to places and did things where good men were, I made myself a better person, I filled up the Life journal you gave and did the goals and I did a lot of ‘FLIRTSOMING’ (this is really so much fun!!!!), etc. etc.
God was so good and your advices really worked…..i once again met my High School Crush. He passed ALL the non-negotiable qualities I listed down even the BONUS I prayed for (the ‘V’ thing). AMAZING GOD!!!!! We did decided to get married in a few months time…..no doubt at all in our hearts.
Btw, I sent you an invitation….the one with our picture on it! I was really excited to send it to you because that was also your requirement after the seminar.
You are such a blessing Bro. Bo!!!!
God bless,
Ai
It is much easier to find my one tru love rather than having my one true love, I met her in our parish we were choirmates, we became friends and eventually I courted her.
She busted me for several time, but I know in my heart that she is my one true love, I even had a deal with the Lord, I told Him “if after 2 years of courting her, and no positive result, I will stop courting her, I will let her go”,
I stop courting her after she busted me for the 6th time. I forgot about the deal and we became friends again but my heart keeps on telling me to love her and woe her. I courted her once again not knowing if she will accept my love.
Until july 15, 2008, 11:55 pm, 5 minutes before the deadline she said yes to me (my deal with the Lord happened in july 16, 1996)…. we grow in faith together, serving the Lord in our Parish and at LOJ and after 8 long years of realationship, we finally got married last April 30, 2006
Prayers really works, I never stop from believing that she will love me in return, I found in her the traits that I look for a girl, Thank GOD He answers my prayer.
I am more bless because of her, I am a betetr person because of my one true love.
oops, sorry, it was july 15, 1998 not july 2008
Well, I haven’t found my “ONE TRUE LOVE” yet…. Though I believe he is just around the corner… also waiting for the right time when God will bring us together… I wrote because since the topic is about singles and love ;), I want to know if there are seminars or retreats for single people that you will be giving before the year ends. I want my mind to be refreshed and my heart be renewed… I am already an active leader of our Singles’ Community so I would like to have some refreshing of the spirit given by your Kerygma family… Please keep me updated. Thanks! God bless!
my love story?? kidding me Bro Bo.. right?? in fact with ur book.. i lost the love of my life.. but u see.. it has made me a better person.. with ur book.. i really had found my one true love… that is myself… funny.. im not that self-centered B_ _ _ _… no.. im not.. just that with ur book.. i have learned to appreciate my self more and the people who realy and truly care for me… those that has made me their ONE TRUE LOVE.. ur book made me realize that i’ve been ignoring the persons who truly love me and that i have given too much attention, my time and myself for sum one whose doesnt appreciate me at all..
well.. that the story of finding my ONE TRUE LOVE..
thanx for inspiring us everyday Bro Bo
I have found my one true love in a forum where we had common interest: gadgets. Initially, being a moderator, i was just helping him out on his problems in his PSP like i do to other members. Little by little, we became good friends until he fell in love to the real me with the ways i have expressed myself through blogging.
Initially, i became hesitant falling in love to anyone because i am sick with a viral disease. I didn’t want to fall to anyone because i am so afraid that no one would ever accept me for the fate that God had given me. But God is so good. I felt God in his presence, for he was able to accept me for who i am, in spite of my disease. I thank God for allowing him to enter my life.
Though I have no idea about your book nor attended one of your seminar. I wrote for indeed, finding my one true love is one of the greaTEST God has ever blessed me.
I’ve been actively attending catholic charistmatic at our church since 1994 while I was still 24yrs old. I felt then also that it’s time for me to have a relationship that would be for good. So in my every prayer (I have a designated prayer time then) it’s the number one in my list of requests. Aside from that I also offered some sacrifices like I go for novena every Wednesday of the week. I’m single then so if I have time to go for a gimmik I could also make time to go to novena and mass even if it its weekdays. So definitely no-gimmik policy on Wednesday because it’s marked. There’s one man in our community I’m actually praying for and I know he’s worth it so I just continue to do so including him in my prayers. Not necessary stating his name for the Lord to hear but it goes like, “Lord give me a man who loves you more than he could ever love me, because with that wish I know Thee would also never let me go far from thee nor this man will ever break my heart because he knows it would also hurt Thee.” I was wishing for this man never realized that after 2 yrs I will fall in love with a different man in the same community and with a much younger man. Yes, indeed God has answered my prayers but the thing is the test of having a lasting relationship is yet so far from over. He is 5yrs younger than me and still he hasn’t finished his college nor have taken the board exam for his course yet so we still need to wait for a longer time. Me, enduring the boast of being a cradle snatcher from people around me and him enduring everything to prove he is already capable of handling a relationship. Well, we’ve known each other since 1994 serving one God and as friends. Then come in 1996 we become steady, it goes like you and me against the world that we need to prove our peers something good could come out with our relationship. and also need to prove the community that we could serve God wholeheartedly even though we’re hooked up with each other. Such a pressure, until the time comes that he did passed his board exams, wow, It felt like I’m the one who pass the board…I bought a newspaper and flaunt it in my office and announce it to the world. Oh it was such a sweet victory because all this time I know God is with us the whole time. My prayers never stop and I believe it’s what the Lord wants. He makes me stronger everyday. That MAN which I prayed for yesterday and continue praying for is now my husband and thank God because Thee also has blessed me with smart kids. We are now living abroad and serving as couple for Couples for Christ. Indeed, God never let me go far from Him. Our married life experience is another story to tell.
gudday bro bo,
i was about to email my father to greet him because its his birthday today, but as the usual thing i do before checking and sending mails, i make it a point to first read the readings which you constantly send. i found your email “have you found your one true love?” and read it immediately afterwards. honestly, the gospel did not sink in to me not for any other reasons. it happened because im bothered by my quarrel with my wife over dinner, which always happen. we always argue for every thing, and i can say that we are really not compatible. i have a daughter with her, and here is where my story starts. you bro bo is an inspiration to me. ive already read two of your books, simplify and live the good life and 8 secrets of the truly rich. now im considering buying your book, have you found your one true love? but contemplating if it would make sense. don’t get me wrong, your great! my point is about a commitment i made to myself that if ever even after reading your book and found it helpful i will still follow my heart’s desire. im very determined to fulfill my commitment which is, that i will never separate with my wife no matter what because of my great love for my daughter! i really love her! she is God’s perfect gift to me. my inspiration in life, and i would sacrifice everything for the sake of my daughter. many said im crazy and malaki na ang bata at maiintindihan niya, yes i admit but i will still stick it out with my promise. for me will it be my daughter that should understand the situation if ever or for me to understand that here is a child that needs a father. you see my wife is such a selfish person, who always use our child for her advantage. my daughter sacrifices alot because whenever we fight and to the point that im fed up with my wife, she tortures her by saying bad things i did with the intention that for me was for my daughter to curse and lumayo ang loob sa akin. she never really took care of my daughter. she says she love us but she is not a good wife and mother, all pure pretentions!. im also my childs inspiration, she knows more about me than my wife. i spend most of my time with my child and i want to see her grow up, having me by her side always. now, if until the time she gets married and no miracle happened that will change my wife, only them will i decide to end my relationship with my wife. by that time shes already secured with the person that will love and take care of her. and i would be proud to say that she grew up with a family and not a product of a broken one, that i was responsible father. you see i am such a unique person, but i already sacrificed alot. i lost my girlfriend then because my wife (which was my ex) got pregnant. i lost many friends, my business was ruined and loans piled up. my parents, relatives and siblings are all mad at me simply because of my wife. what could i say? im human it pains me alot, sobra! but i leave every thing to God, my community in the church, my poster parents and family in the neo cathecumenate, my brothers in the knights of columbus, they all give me strength! they always pray for me and encourage me to hold on. thats why i could say that mahaba na ang nalakad ko. my child is already 12 years old, and she’s such a fine wonderful daughter that i could be proud of. thanks bro bo. please excuse me if this comment is a nobela na! and lastly, im not yet married though i consider her my wife. GOD BLESS!
It was a long journey for me and one “love” book after another, but what really changed my perspective was Brother Bo’s book. Funny though because I managed to blog about this journey the past few years, here’s my recount -
http://svhomegrown.blogspot.com/2007/01/when-god-writes-your-love-story-each.html
http://aileenapolo.blogspot.com/2007/01/starstruck.html
http://aileenapolo.blogspot.com/2008/02/single-awareness-day.html
http://svhomegrown.blogspot.com/2007/10/when-god-writes-your-love-story-part-2.html
I’ve read 6 of your books since december of last year. I started with “how to be really really really happy” and the last one which is only about 3 days ago was “simplify and create abundance”. every time i come to nbs looking for a book to buy, i always pause for a while and decides whether to buy the “how to find your one true love” book… but i always ended up looking for something else. haha. i don’t know if it is because i’m not that interested in looking for my one true love or there are other reason for not purchasing the book. anyway, i’ll make it a point to have this book next week. and maybe i’ll find interest to have a great love.
anyway, brother bo
i thank you. for sharing with me the precious 3 minutes of my life. 
after shaking your hands yesterday and telling you stuffs i barely remember, i hop in our car and screamed at the top of my lungs. 
meeting you in person was a dream come true for me. i felt so blessed yesterday and i’m hoping for more opportunities of meeting you.
hi bro. bo!
our love story began 8 years ago..
how did we meet? …thru serving the Lord.
We both belong to Youth for Christ. We get to see each other in the activities lang of the organization. But we are not acquainted and we don’t belong to the same area.
He is the opposite of my dream guy and I would like to think that I am just the girl of his dreams…hehe..(he has no choice but to agree since this is my side of the story anyway)..hehe..
He has long hair and his face is covered with so much hair..supreme rockista look..while i am pa tweetums..hehe..he looks like an addict next to an innocent me..
We both came from Cebu but became friends in Bohol in one of YFC’s activities. I had a crush on his friend while he pisses girls off because of his kakulitan..
When our friends started teasing us, parang nag-open ang eyes ko and i started scrutinizing him, you know if he’s boyfriend material ba or not..(Tease pa lng ha and feeling ko na, i’m getting married the next day)…hehe..
I tried to shrug it off thinking na nadala lng ako sa mga tease ng friends ko…then out of nowhere, he called and greeted me Happy New Year..(in fairness, new year nman talaga noon)..but, he got out of his way to ask around for my number…(but he insisted na as friends lang daw yung call nya)..but he admitted to me recently na he was also checking me out if i’m girlfriend material too..hehe
anyway, months went by..i’ve fallen for him..and every night, nag plead talaga ako ni Lord na sana if he’s the one, bigay na nya kaagad..hehe..and if he’s not the one, sana he’ll stop calling me and won’t disturb me na..for a week hindi talaga siya tumawag..then he called..and we agreed to go out on a friendly date..(till now, i always brag how lakas i am to the Lord and till now, i always thank him for all my answered prayers)..the rest is history..
He wasn’t my dream guy but he compliments who i am as a person and he brings out the best in me..
did i tell you that he plays the guitar (and he’s a good one) and i sing (ahem!)..a match made in heaven!
i was an active youth for christ member and after years of serving Him, my reward was not a dream guy but the guy in my answered prayer..
i believe that all love stories are written by God..ours is just one of them..
ps..we’re getting married next year!!!
Bro. Bo,
I never read your book about finding true love but I had some of your books. I dont know anything or tips on how to find a true love but I FOUND MY TRUE LOVE IN GODs WILL….
God is really amazing! Its true that He is watching us from a distance.
I met my husband at the NAIA airport when I was working at the duty free shop back in 2002. He walked in the store and said he want one of everything, first I smile coz we’re gonna have a sale that day BIG one! but when I looked at him I thought this guy cant afford any of this item in the store since its a cartier brand. He is just an ordinary person or passanger. And with me being frank I told him that…Im sorry sir but I dont think you can afford all of this! oh my gosh! I am so scared after I let go those words without thinking that I will be in trouble if my boss found out what I did…Thank GOD! this man didnt tell my boss(his such a nice guy)We became friends since he comes every month here in Phils. Few months later,we’re getting more closer and I dont like it at all. I told myself that he is not my ideal man but I think GOD gave me my “karma”. (its him) I think God wants me to straighten ou my life through him. I even spent 9 wednesday at Baclaran church praying that I dont fall for him. I think of all the bad things about him and I even try to introduce him to all the lady I know in Glorietta mall. But Gods plan is more powerful than whatever idea I have.
He didnt give me what I want but he gave what I need!
There’s so much more to tell about our love story but it will take so much space hehehe.
Now were happily married and had 2 wonderful kids
and we visit philippines every other year.
By the way, I told my husband about you and he read some of your books and he said he would love to meet you someday. Im sure you guys will talk a lot of things since he study apologetics.
more power to you and goodluck to you books!
Hi Bo,
I wanted to write my own “how I found..” but when I was going over the comments, I came across with what Louie had written.
Sorry Louie, I have to say these:
1) You feel bitter because you have to marry her by accident- no love at all.
2) So, your commitment is, “okay I will be your live-in partner but i will not marry you - well, I will of course call you ‘wife’ ”
3) She is fully aware of this so she began to analyze things. Had this baby did not materialize, I would still be free to look for someone who will truly love me
4) After a few years of trying to understand this, she began detaching herself to the kid and to you and to all your relatives and friends - the way all the “rebels” do. Hey Louie, believe me, her actions are normal!
5) Her actions hurt you and the rest - but you are sticking to your so called “commitment” because of your daughter.
6) The daughter has both parents - but would it make any difference when you are arguing day and night in her presence?
What is the point, Louie? Let her go, arrange for something regarding your daughter, but just let her go.
hmm.. oh.. only now did i realize that i made some grammatical error while talking to you (bro.bo) yesterday. i was uploading the videos taken yesterday after the feast and i watched it (for the nth time since yesterday). haha. i guess i said: “although i’m not a non-catholic..” hmm.. that’s supposed to be “although i’m not a catholic” gee.. dyahe. haha. anyway, i can still not get over the fact that i finally was able to meet you in person.
and realizing, that you may not actually remember who i was. haha.
continue to bless the world brother bo
I went to a book store today. This is really my first time to saw your book there. Or I guess…I’m just back on the hobby of reading books.
I saw this book about have you find your true love? I guess I want to answer though I’m not yet done reading the book.
Answer: I really don’t know. Well, since I don’t know…I would just simply say. NO. No gray areas.
(I really made a long story of my love story dilemma but deleted them). Oh well, I just want to tell you that I’m definetely in the dilemma of finding one.
Well, definitely….I’m still on my way of finding this true love in my life. And I really hope to find them soon. Because I really want to get married SOON. Im dead serious. And I will constantly pray for them starting this day. (I haven’t prayed for this since this is not really my priority).
I’m gonna update you guys in case. In case, I have met him. ::) SOON.
Hi Bo!
I met my God’s Gift when I went on mission. At first, I did not know that my personal life would change when I decided to go on mission because I had a boyfriend back then. It was more than a decade of relationship so everyone (including I) thought that we would end up together.
And since it was more than a decade, the relationship was not pure. It was a vicious cycle that I thought I would survive. I was thinking that since I already gave up my purity, no one would accept me as I am.
But God changed me. I went on mission and He totally rocked my world. I broke up with him because I realized that even if we were together for the longest time, we have not been a Christian brother and a sister to each other. Indeed, God breaks what is not holy.
I have learned the true meaning of purity when I met my fiancé. It was horrible you know, to tell someone that you’re no longer pure…
But our God is the God of second chances. He blessed me with a man who fought for his purity and accepted me despite of my past. Every night we pray Tobias’ prayer (Tobit
because just like him and Sarah, we want to grow old together to a happy old age.
I am taken wholly. I am beautiful in the eyes of the Lord. And
I am blessed. I will forever bless the name of the Lord who has given me my true love, Paul.
We will get married on December 08 here in Ecuador and we’ll repeat the ceremny in the Philippines. And just like how you had your wedding, it will be a bring your own food fiesta haha!
God bless!
I met my husband in the ministry of our community. At first I do not mind him (hehehe!). Before that, i had 2 previous relationships and I took a break for more than 2 years and stayed single…Then one new year’s eve, i wrote in my journal all the things that happened and thank God for all those blessings…i then felt the urge to write down the qualities of a man i am praying for…because I felt that he will soon come…after that, i totally forgot what are those…as my husband was courting me then…i remembered the entry in my journal and checked…I noticed that all of those things somehow manifest in him…it was further confirmed when my mother has no issues with him compared to my previous bfs…I prayed for it…and everything turn out well…there were no hindrances and everything were smooth…we are now in our 3 years of married life…we share the same faith…we are on the same ministry and of course community…I just knew that God hears everything…I found my one true love…and I am so happy for it.
bro Bo,
Greetings in Christ.
Simple lang naman po ung simula namin, nakita ko sya during our first class in college, para makilala ko sya at makita ang number ng crush ko, gumawa kami ng tropa ko ng dummy attendance class pero na ang nakalagay ay Name, Address, Number, Favorite Color. naniwala naman ung mga classmate ko at nakuha din nila ung mga contact number ng crush nila. Well and rest is history
Me and my gg (short for “God’s Gift” tawag ko po sa girlfriend ko) are almost 8 years in our relationship and hopefully get married soon. The secret that keep us together and still loving each other. God is the center of our relationship and We keep the passion in serving Jesus.
lagi nga po kaming nanunuod ng mga video nyo bro Bo about Family, marriage and friends.
Salamat po sa buhay nyo Bro. Bo
OUR LOVE STORY
We were introduced by Frank’s cousin Mylene who happened to be Sheryl’s officemate in Cavite State University – Child Development Center (CvSU-CDC). Mylene gave Sheryl’s number to Frank. The two became friends when Frank started sending text messages to Sheryl. No courtship occurred during the time that they were text mates. Frank at that point was training for Philippine Navy. They agreed to meet in person after the completion of the training to get to know each other. It was Sheryl’s idea. She made it clear to him that she doesn’t want to be courted thru text messaging. Furthermore, she wanted to know if she will feel some attraction towards him.
Their first date was very memorable. Sheryl felt nervous and excited on their first meeting. She instantly felt some affection towards Frank. They dated for two weeks until Sheryl decided to stop seeing him. The reason is that she became so fond of him already. She was afraid of taking the relationship to the next level. She then, refused to answer his calls and invitations for dates. Although Frank did not completely understand, he decided to give some space for her. They did not see each other nor communicate for several weeks. But Sheryl’s affection for Frank was not lost, she eventually asked God for a sign. Until Frank greeted Sheryl on Easter Sunday, it was exactly the sign that Sheryl asked for. That day marked the start of their romance when Sheryl decided to give Frank the chance to be part of her life.
From then on, they knew that they were really meant for each other. In fact, in one of their conversations, they found out that they have been acquainted during their early adolescence. Frank was 14, Sheryl was 11. Frank had an instant crush on Sheryl and started to ask her name through a neighbor. Sheryl was on vacation and was staying with her uncle in Alulod, Indang, Cavite. Frank’s house happened to be just across the street on the other side. Furthermore, Frank and Sheryl found out that their families are distant relatives. However Sheryl’s aunt refused to entertain Frank because they were both very young at that time. Neither of the two expected that they shall meet again after 13 years.
And now, after 2 years and 8 months of being a couple, their dream of becoming one is about to become a reality when Frank and Sheryl exchange their wedding vows on December 6, 2008.
My Dream Girl
Shai and I live in the same neighborhood. I only knew that she was the younger sister of Heidi, my elementary classmate, but I don’t know her personally. We were still young back then, but I already have a crush on her.
Yup, I was probably 14 and she was 12 and I already had a crush on her. I had a history of liking girls with long hair. And Shai is this very pretty chubby girl with this long and shiny hair. She was so pretty….
I had the chance of my life to finally talk to her personally when I saw her at Fort Bonifacio. It so happened that we were both scholars of PNOWA back in College. And so we chatted and right then and there she got me… I was hooked. Its not only her hair anymore…It was her smile too! Because when she smiles at me my heart would melt.
But after that chat, we never had a chance to talk again. I never had the courage to ask for her phone number too!
So being the loser that I am, I looked forward to every end of the semester. Because it would mean that I will see her again in PNOWA. I would plan what to wear, go to the barbershop to get a hair cut, think of what I am going to say to her, etc. But then, there were times that I wouldn’t even have the chance to talk to her. I’m the classic TORPEDO, you might say.
Well things happen you know, either she arrives late, talks to a lot of friends or she was with her father, etc.. And so I finished college and my chance of seeing her every semester was gone.
So I went on with my life as a professional engineer when one day I saw her across the street about to ride a jeepney. I quickly ran towards that jeepney and when i got in, I pretended like I didn’t saw her. She called me and said Hello (she remembered me!!). And then knowing that I couldn’t let this chance pass (it’s now or never, I told myself). I bravely asked her phone number at home (cell phones are not that very famous then). And the rests were history…
After One Too Many Hellos
Early August of 1999, I was on my way to Glorietta Makati, to meet Emmerald Filart, my balikbayan friend from college. I was sitting on a jeepney when I saw Ryan came up at the same jeepney I was in. It was a long time ago since I last saw him. And I noticed something different about him - he gained some needed weight!
We used to see each other every semester, because we were both scholars of the Philippine Navy Officer’s Wives Association (PNOWA). Every semester we go to Fort Bonifacio to receive our daily allowances and attend a short program with other co-scholars. He was very thin then.
We were introduced when we were still in high school, by his friend and kababata John Gotico, who happened to be my classmate and friend too. And so we always have a little chat when we see each other at Fort Bonifacio.
After we graduated from College, we seldom see each other because PNOWA days are over too. Although we would occasionally bump into each other at the Church, we would just nod and say hello - he was a choir member and I was a lector. But that was it.
He was a very interesting person and I liked talking to him. But I didn’t have the faintest idea then that one day I would say I do with him.
So on that fateful day in August 1999 at the jeepney, I saw him again and said “uy kamusta ka na?” It so happened, that he was also on his way to Makati to hit the gym at Slimmer’s World. We talked and talked at the bus, about what, I don’t remember. He asked for my phone number and we burned lines ’till the wee hours of the succeeding days… finally after those many years of bumping into each other and saying hello.
When I read your book, it reinforced what we already have in our 5-year relationship. I wished I had read your book sooner. It could have saved us a lot of trouble as we got to know each other. We’re not married yet (so maybe I’m not ‘qualified ‘ to comment here) but we’re preparing ourselves emotionally and financially for it.
We met thru Singles for Christ. I was the lone female guitarist at that time in our chapter. (and very much pressured to keep up with the more skillful guitarist brothers) I thought he was there to check if our music ministry is up to par with the preferred ’standard’ for our community. So each practice session until the performance night- I gave it my all. I apparently caught his attention. And the rest, so they say-is history. Hahaha.
Hi Bo,
I get excited every time love stories come up, I thought I had an interesting one…
Me and my girlfriend of nearly five years now met when she worked at our company as a contractual at my dept., she was fresh eng’g.graduate and I was an analyst who rose from the ranks (another interesting career story right there), in a huge automotive company. I was reserved, she was outgoing, and aside from her perfect shapes (you know what I mean), she wasn’t really catching much of my attention, but boy was she smart. Until I engaged in a multi-level marketing business of distributing skin-care products, she had a beautiful skin and delicate taste of high-ends skin care products and so I thought she would make a good customer and business partner. And she became my business partner, we became friends, spent late-night outs and weekends together because of business meetings, talked two-hours over lunch (I was even summoned by HR because of it) and the feelings developed. I had a problem though, I didn’t want to be involved with ladies who were already attached to other men (being a gentleman that I was).. Until she came. I felt that she had the feeling for me as well, but the “man” in me prevailed, I didn’t want to take her from other man, but at that time, their 4years relationship was on the verge of breaking down, his guy was planning of working overseas and she had to be left here. Still, I advised her to work things out with him. I thought the 4 years they had was worth saving. I gave her the space, though we’re just aisle apart at the office, to think things over. She and her former boyfriend met over dinner to patch things up one night, I even walked her to the place where they’re meeting (talk about wanting more collateral damage), and went home frustrated/hurting. Until a text message came… SHE BROKE UP WITH HIM!!!, it was several days before their 4th anniversary, in those days between, I pulled the one of the riskiest decisions of my life, I proposed to her the day before their 4th anniversary (I just thought opportunities might show up and they might actually patched things up), and she said yes!.
Her yes wasn’t the happily-ever-after ending, their 4 years surely wasn’t probably easy to let go, days before her former guy left for overseas, she told me she’s attending his despedida, just imagine the mental torture! But, I said that’s fine, I’d understand. But the one that nearly killed me was when the guy was actually flying, she couldn’t hide her sadness in her eyes and she cried, I had to be by her side and lent her my shoulders to cry on, even if it’s the tears were for other man… and I thought, I was deeply in love again. I wasn’t like this, I wouldn’t settle for second. But I did, for her…
Challenges came our way, she ended her contract…
I was able to invite her to the Single’s Ministry that I was part of, …
She once went overseas to work, but ended up shopping and went home weeks later, after she realized….
We are now together in the service of our Single’s Ministry, going places, reaching out….
We’re planning of settling down in two to three years as of this writing….
I’m a blessed man, that God gave her to me….
I hope that this makes to one of your top love stories, to touch others to be “bold” to take “calculated” risk and CHOOSE to be in love, whatever it takes…
My story is not just about true love but of sacrifice. I have a crush with a seminarian who was assigned in our community as part of their apostolate 11 years ago. He became a priest but consistently had communications with him since he was and still is a good friend. But after more than a decade, he confessed that he always have feelings for me and is considering the possibility of being laicize. I was shocked that I wept deeply. I have always hidden my feelings for this person in respect to his vocation and to find out that the feeling was actually mutual made me entertain really selfish thoughts. I even did some research of the possibilities (the advantages and disadvantages) to the point that I am already willing to give it a try. But eventually, I made my choice and it was to let go of him. I could have chosen to give in but there’s too much at stake. It’s hard to let go of someone you have always love so dearly. It really pains me that I did but in truly loving a person, there is always a sacrifice involve and I’m happy now because I know what I did was a selfless act. NOTE: I’m not expecting to be part of the “40 Stories of Finding Your One True Love.” I just wanna share my story because I’ve learned so much about your book and have shared it to my friends. At this moment, I’m just open to other possibilites. Ultimately, my experience made me much closer to God. Thank you for being inspirational!
She is a Protestant. I am a Catholic. It is a relationship that few people thought would prosper, yet it did. Many in fact dissuaded her from continuing to see me. People in her church called me a non-believer. Won’t be surprised if some even called me the devil incarnate. Yet our love flourished amidst the social pressures exerted by others. We are happily married now, but still attending different churches. Yet the differences barely matter now. Just proof that sometimes, love transcends religion.
Hi Bro. Bo,
Well I don’t have a love story to share at the moment since I’m still single. Hehe. But I did read your book and helped me re-align some of my ideals. I also shared it with my other single friends so they can be blessed with your wisdom as well. Good luck with the upcoming book and more power! God bless.
bro bo di naman hinahanap yan e kusang dumadating sa tamang panahon
Hi Bo!
I was a total loser with girls. I was a workaholic, drunkard and “weird” in my 20s. At 30, I was absolutely desperate having no girlfriend. Then someone invited me to Singles for Christ and I met the Lord. I asked Him to lead me to my one true love. I was so detailed in my prayers…5′4″ in height, very pleasant-looking face, a Bulakena will be nice, no please not someone from UP or Ateneo or La Salle, and so on.
Know what Bo? God gave me all those in one lady whom I met through a common friend. We started as friends and what really made us take notice was when we found out we were both members of Singles for Christ, from different chapters. One day we found each other in love, and the rest was history. We tied the knot two years later, joined Couples for Christ and have been active in its Gawad Kalinga program.
But it didn’t come that fast, Bo. God told me to change first. By the time I met my girlfriend, who’s now my wife, I was already wrapping up my struggle against drinking and workaholism. With God’s grace I overcame them, and I feel younger now than when I was ten years ago. All in God’s glory, Bo.
Marvin
Gosh! Cant wait for this book! another certified bestseller!!
Way back 1998, when there is still no cellphone and phonepal is still in. I was already 21 then and hoping to have my first girlfriend ( I reserve the years for a girl to be my first and at the same time last gf ).
I randomly call a number in the phone and a girl answered it. I drop the phone down but tried calling again and just listening to the girl’s voice. To be honest “hindi ako nagandahan sa voice”. Because it is only 1PM then and my class will be 5:40PM I innocently ask the girl what time is it. She answered “wala ka bang relo dyan?” and I pretend.
To cut the long story short, we became phonepal and eventually becomes sweethearts. It was the most joyous moment in my life because after several years of waiting (and while my barkadas already had 2-5 gf) I had 1 now.
After 3weeks we broke-up because she’s an INC member. But after few days we decided to be united again. 3 years of serious yet happy relationship with this girl ends one day. I had my next gf and she had her bf too, but after 1.5 years we had a chance to text each other and I know God reserve this girl to me because the same year we decided to bow together under God’s blessing as couple thru wedding. Before the sacred bow I diligently taught her the prayers for the “kumpil”.
Time and differences might separate each one of us temporarily but with God nothing is a hindrance and He really knows the best for us.
Now we enjoy attending CLP together to be CFC member soon. I know thru this we will become stronger placing Christ in the center of our marriage while raising our kids in the same faith.
Let me share with you one of my favorite articles which I used to compile way back in my college days. I have this feeling that these will somehow help the readers to find their one true love. Here it goes:
GOD’s PLAN FOR YOUR MATE
Everyone longs to give himself/herself to someone: to have a soul-deep relationship with another, to be loved thoroughly and exclusively, But God to the Christian says:
“Not until you are content with living…loved by ME alone. I love you my child, and you discover that only Me your satisfaction will be found, you will not be capable of the human relationship that I have plan for you. You will never be united with one another until you are united with ME, exclusive of anyone or anything else, exclusive of any desire for longings. I want you to stop planning and stop wishing and allow things to happen because I want you to have the best. Allow me to reveal to you all plans. Don’t struggle with me because I am pursuing to bless you.
Just keep watching ME, experiencing the greatest thing… keep experiencing satisfaction in knowing who I am. Keep learning and listening to the things that I tell you. You must wait. Do not be anxious. Don’t worry. Do not look around and envy of the things what you want. You are just looking farther away ME and miss what I want to show you.
When you are ready, I will surprise you with love more wonderful than you would have dreamt. You see, until; you are ready and until the one I have for you is ready (I am working on both of you this very minute to have both of you ready at the same time) and until you are both satisfied exclusively with ME and the Life I have prepared for you, you won’t be able to experience the love that exemplifies your relationship with ME.
I want you to experience this wonderful human love. I want you to see in the flesh, the picture of your relationship with ME and concretely the everlasting union with beauty and perfection with love I offer you MYSELF. Human love is the faint saint shadow of MY LOVE for you.
KNOW THAT I LOVE YOU. BELIEVE IT AND BE SATISFIED.
I just realized that somehow this influenced me on the way I handled my relationship with JERRY, my crush, my answered prayer, my one and only boyfriend who after seven years of steady relationship became my husband, and now we’re both blessed with two beautiful kids, Juliana and Eliza.
To GOD be the GLORY!
I would like to share a bit about my love story. I’m a Born Again Christian but I enjoy reading your much inspiring articles from your site recommended by my sister (who is Catholic). Anyway, it’s funny how I met my boyfriend. I am a single mom. And from the time the father of my daughter told me to apply for a job in a big company with which he had connections, I was led through these chain of events up until the time I met the one who I know I’m going to spend the rest of my life with. It’s just amusing that God even used him, my ex-boyfriend! Now, my boyfriend and I are miles apart. I am in Singapore and he’s back home in the Philippines. We’ve been together for 1 and a half years but it seemed like decades because of all the problems and trials we’ve been through; from my father telling my boyfriend to stay away from me and my family, to my ex-boyfriend threatening my boyfriend to stay away from my daughter..I thank God that each time we had these problems, we always emerged victorious and came out even stronger and wiser. I really hope that I will be able to share more about our story because it’s no ordinary love story nor an ordinary relationship. Even upto now, we still have struggles living far away from each other but only by God’s grace are we able to get through. Thanks for your inspiring stories. God bless you even more!
Hi Kuya Bo,
I’m super kilig while reading the diff stories. Hay, I love to read over and over again. Hehehe. I wish I can have a copy of your book, How To Find Your One True Love not for me only but for my friends who I think need it more than I. Thanks to all who share their story!!!! God bless us all.
I was courting this girl (who never had a boyfriend since birth but lots and lots of suitors came by… and it was my first time too!) in our office for almost a year. To cut the chase, I didn’t make it. Though each of us revealed a mutual understanding, we never went up to a higher level of relationship… or should I say, she didn’t want to. It was still a courtship stage so to speak. Without commitments… heartaches and complications arose and I eventually let go. I was suffering then and had invested the feeling so much that I only later realized that the pocket had a hole at the bottom all the time.
During that period of pain, there was one special friend who was ready to listen. All she did was listen sincerely. We were both working in the same company and the same project. Even the time I was making a goal to that previous girl, I had already gone close with this new special person. She always made me smile and we enjoyed our company so much. I was too focus on one direction that I overlook a silent shining gem on the way. But I had finally turned my attention to her. She knew her… she knew all the stories, and she knew I was falling for her (the new one)… likewise on her part. During my recovery period, she was always there… just there to see if I was handling it fine. And then, I was falling… falling towards her. All the while, she was there waiting at the bottom. And then wooooshh… we fell in love. It started with jokes and teases (pretending to be a loveteam) but it came true. We were very happy and so much in love.
But a big hurdle came in our young relationship. She finally had her big dream to become a teacher, but was assigned to a mountainous region with no cellphone signal… no nothing! It was devastating. Being used to be at her side most of the time and then BLAM! Instant long distance relationship! We could rarely see and communicate each other (only during weekends). It was a total big adjustment. Fears and loneliness enveloped our relationship, but we got through the test of staying together in spite of everything. A realization of finding the true love.
And now, we are happily engaged! Praise God!
My one true love is a friend of my friend. The first time we met was also the time I was trying to end my relationship with my almost 3 year boyfriend. To my desperation, I asked this friend that I just met a favor if I could make him as if my new boyfriend. And to my surprise, he agreed. Because of that event, I finally broke up with my boyfriend and that’s because of that favor. We became friends. After a year, I found out that it seems we already like each other. He became my boyfriend, but it only lasted for almost 5 months since we both don’t have much time and finances to keep the relationship because of our distant locations. That’s about 45 kilometers away. And after almost two years, so much faraway now, an hour flight to be with each other. Somehow we still have each other’s love. We got back in each other arms last September 20, 2008. And hope this time we could make it.
Thanks Bo, for giving me this wonderful opportunity to share this to everyone. Hope you’ll continue to pray for us.
jhanee
Would you believe Bro. Bo that my one true love is not the one I’ve married? Yes, for sure, everyone would curse me for that? How come that I marry the one that I really don’t love? I believe so, that God wants the best for us. I realized that not all your prayers will be answered in the way you want it to be. I came to realize that our one true love does not necessarily mean someone you’re ending up with for the rest of your life. Oftentimes we always claimed that life is so unfair! Yes, indeed! I was caught in the middle of two men who really professed their love to me. What is so sad about it was the one I really love was not here in the Philippines. I was not so sure that his intention to me was really pure and lasting. In other words, I never trust him anymore because of the instances that happened before he worked for abroad. You see, love must be built on trust. Until after about four years, he went back home and came to see me to return the love letters and pictures which I used to send him before. We knew for a fact that still, we really loved each other so much. But now, is a different set-up. I’m married already. We cannot really turn back the time now. But we both believe in destiny. But in fairness to the one whom I’ve chosen to marry, he’s really a husband material. I thanked God for sending him to me.
Sadly, i THOUGHT i found him.
When things became REALLY tough, I sought for God’s guidance. I also reviewed your book, and found out, clearly, that He is not the one. Even my friends used your book as one of their references. Now that we’re apart, things became crystal clear. It’s true that when feelings are in the way, it’s hard to see things the way you should.
Thanks for saving my life, tito bo. (is it okay to call you that?) I hope one day I would find my one true love like the rest of you guys, and be a part of your book.
I’ll be looking forward to reading the love stories.
Good luck!
Would you believe Bro. Bo that my one true love is not the one I’ve married? Yes, for sure, everyone would curse me for that? How come that I marry the one that I really don’t love? I believe so, that God wants the best for us. I realized that not all your prayers will be answered in the way you want it to be. I came to realize that our one true love does not necessarily mean someone you’re ending up with for the rest of your life. Oftentimes we always claimed that life is so unfair! Yes, indeed! I was caught in the middle of two men who really professed their love to me. What is so sad about it was the one I really love was not here in the Philippines. I was not so sure that his intention to me was really pure and lasting. In other words, I never trust him anymore because of the instances that happened before he worked for abroad. You see, love must be built on trust. Until after about four years, he went back home and came to see me to return the love letters and pictures which I used to send him before. We knew for a fact that still, we really loved each other so much. But now, is a different set-up. I’m married already. We cannot really turn back the time now. But we both believe in destiny. But in fairness to the one whom I’ve chosen to marry, he’s really a husband material. I thanked God for sending him to me. Though oftentimes, we disagree on things. I guessed it’s the level of thinking we have. Educational attainment in life is also one factor in finding your life time partner. I was so disappointed because Bro. Bo, your book was a bit too late when I needed discernment during that time. Anyways, I was the one to be blamed.
Hi Bro. Bo,
I just want to share a tidbit of how I found my one true love :-).
All my life I thought I was going to enter a nunnery. It became a struggle when deep in heart I wanted to have my own family.
Thinking that it was God’s will that I become a nun despite the want to have my own family, I did intense research on probable congregations I can enter in. And while researching online, I got an email from a friend advertising your book, How to Find Your One True Love (I wasn’t subscribed to the Kerygma Family then). What caught my attention was this phrase, “What the Lord wants for you is what your heart desires.” It was a lightning moment for me. I stopped congregation hunting…and allowed myself to be remolded and reshaped into a future wife and mom by our Lord.
My boyfriend and I see the Lord’s hand in things from the first time we met up to this very moment when we are planning to start our own family. Our Lord is a great matchmaker
PS
And yes, I did purchase the book when it was first released.
Hi Brother Bo, you know how I found my one true love? Thru trials and struggles in our marriage life, Sometimes it not necessarily find it before you get maried, it is a long process and a journey that you will have to epxperience with your partner. Without her I may not know the how wonderful God is.
Me and my husband met in the office. It was my first Saturday in the office and we just met that time. Being the “joker” in the office, he take a hint on my surname and surprisingly he guessed it right. I don’t like him that time yet. I just graduated from college that time and it was my first job. I was still that shy girl. Days passed by and we became friends, it just started with emails, office messages and later on bloom into a wonderful relationship. One sign I always ask God if he is the one is when he introduce himself to my parents without me begging him. I went home one weekend to our province and surprisingly he said that he will follow after office. So he did, even if it meant that he arrived there at around 9pm. And my parents talked to him even my mom who rarely talks to any of my suitors. Thats when i knew that he was the one. We have been together for 5 years before we got married. We had our own ups and downs, we even came to a point when we almost broke up. But we always patch things up. Finally after 5 years, we finally got married. He was my 5th boyfriend and he was the only one my mom likes. Now, we are almost a year married and our love for eachother grows stronger everyday.
Hai Bro Bo Sanchez,
My name is Riri, I am an Indonesian, I am 28 years old and I am staying in Indonesia now.
I started dating, well you know have a boyfriend when I was in senior high school until I got married last May 2006, I already have 9 boyfriends during those times. My husband now is the tenth guy in my life, but he is the last one for sure. We got married May 6, 2006 in Jakarta, oh by the way my husband is a Philipino, his name is Rene Bathan Vergara, he comes from Batangas, every time I introduce him or even mention his name or seeing him every day, hearing his voice, and knowing that I am his wife, really make me feel ablaze, you know why, because God arrange our wedding, He mend our relationship and He is become our matchmaker.
The blessing, happiness, miracles, and grace the God can give to us in the future if we decided to work with Him to find our one true love, are something that we always thank Him afterwards. For me, finding the one true love, is finding the one (not Mr. Right, not Mr. Perfect, not Mr. Easy to fall in love for) that make you feel whole again and you can see that God is mending the brokenness in you through that person. The sacrifice we did come out with a worthy output.
Well my advise and suggestion, Never try to fix your boyfriend, your dating partner, but instead ask God to fix you first and ask Him to send you the person who He can work through that person. So when you two are balance and ready, you two will be a good companion to each other.
PS: I waiting for your new book since now:)
Dear Brother Bo,
I was reading maybe the fifth story (all the while contemplating if I should go ahead and send my love story) when I realized that all those stories are really just the great and inspiring begininngs of their lives together.
Your book idea would prove to be a great sequel to the book about finding love, I’m so sure, but could you maybe make a third part, something about how to keep that true love alive.
Not to be a party pooper to those currently enjoying the wonderful bliss of true love, but after marriage, mundane things like bills, schedules, work, housecleaning, and more important matters like kids, in-laws, sickness, tend to insinuate themselves into the very fabric of that love and threaten to “render it asunder.”
I’m not a cynic, in fact I have found my one true love, one of the greatest blessings I’ve ever received. It’s just that I’m surrounded with friends with failing marriages. (Just their bad luck they weren’t able to get a hold of your book when they got hitched.)
I’m sorry I haven’t read your book yet, so I don’t know if you’ve included a chapter there about how to make true love stay for keeps. Even if you had, I still think that topic deserves an entire book. After all the couples you have married off (albeit indirectly), you might have a moral responsibility to help them stay together? (No pressure, haha)
just my two cents’ worth…
Bro Bo,
Please visit jane’s blog for the story on how we found each other’s one true love.
http://www.janedchua.com/2008/01/19/at-the-beginning/
I met my one true love at a church community.
He was a participant in one of the seminars we were conducting and I was a facilitator. Save for my casual “hello” and warm fuzzies for everybody, I really didn’t took notice of him much… until he graduated from this seminar and started attending our prayer meetings. He would always approach me and he basically befriended me. That was OK for me, even an honor that a new member chose to befriend me. Until I found it that he actually had an “intention,” hehe….
He actually didn’t court me. He just sorta made me fall into a trap. We were so physically close way back that people thought we’re a couple. We agreed to just play around, to kid around when people teased us. And then, when everybody was convinced that we’re really a couple already, he told me firmly not to date other guys any more and stick with him….
Of course, that was bull****. But anyway, I said yes. During that time, I was only 16, still counting the guys that come and go, and I treated him just as i would any guy I dated. But he’s serious, and he’s determined to make me his for a long time….
I just really realized that I love him already after 3 years. We’re still a couple, and he decided to rev up his career because, as he said, “tumatagal na kami,” and he has to be responsible already.
But that’s not my reason. My reason is, there was a time when he suddenly left and told me that he’s gonna be busy so he won’t be able to contact me for quite some time. It really gave me the shivers. I cried for 2 straight weeks and prayed to God ceaselessly to keep him safe.
Now, it’s been 6 years since we first became a couple. We hope, through the grace of God, that as we contemplate if we’re gonna bring our relationship “to the next level,” God’ll still be there to see us through.
God speed.
Dear Bro. Bo,
How are you?
I haven’t read your book yet but I am so curious about it.
Anyway, I would let you know that I am your #1 fan here in Bahrain. We had the same goals of inspiring people. I love inspiring people also.
About my love story, I married a woman who is 14 years older than me. My love story is so fantastic to tell and is worth sharing to inspire women who think that they can no longer get married if there age is almost 40 years old.
Thanks for inspiring me Bro Bo and may God bless you always
James Parmis
http://www.JamesParmis.com
when is the deadline for the stories? hehe. one of my greatest and biggest dreams is to be part of a story in your book, bro bo. but i think i would not be in this one yet.
i will still have my state of life discernment this year so i am still protecting my heart from any romantic commitments.
but i’ve read your book and i am in the knowing-and-befriending-a-lot-of-guys stage and in the finding-your-happiness stage.. and i did learn a lot of things about men, how they reate and about myself and how i relate.
it’s been great finding my happiness. i’m sure whatever my state of life is, strengthining my relationship with God and with myself would take me a long way
I met my husband 20 years ago. Ours is the conventional high school sweetheart story and least to say, it all began in high school. We married at age 20 and until now…the saga continues.
It all started with a simple love letter handed over by a mutual friend in 1st year high school and after a year of writing each other…we finally became sweethearts. We never spoke to each other even though we were in the same school and in the same year-level. Communication was just through letters and we even send our letters through snail mail. I still remember the thrill of going to the faculty room and seeing if I have a new love letter. The first time we had a date was when we were already in 2nd year high school. A “date” during those days was sitting under one of the school benches and talking of nonsense. At third year high school we cooled off – his decision not mine. It was my first heartbreak and was bitter with news that he has an eye for somebody else. After a few months, he started wooing me again and we were BF and GF the 2nd time around. I became a college student at UP and we had a long distance love affair with the love letters going back and forth every week.
Then, I became pregnant at 19 years old and we decided to get married with objection (of course!!) from our parents, especially on my side. At 20 years of age, we became parents. Many judged that we would not last but somehow we still prove them wrong. Our marriage is full of both pleasant and unpleasant surprises and we still decide to stick together. I always say that being married for 13 years (and counting) is a feat in itself but it would not have been possible without us both believing that the Lord is always with us and that we married each other because of the love we have. We decided to get married because we love each other and basically that is why we are still married because we love each other. I always sign a wedding signature board with the following caption: “When things get rough always remember the reason why you got married in the first place and everything will turn out fine.”
There are still many stories in between but love letter will remain part of our love story.
Sheila
P.S.
I am now working in Dubai and with all the emails, YM, etc., my husband still sends me love letters and cards through snail mail…
bro.bo,
i was in th emidst of a terrible relationship that i keep on holding on for years though i know ill be suffering much in time, i was in a long distant relationship for much of 3yrs, and kept on waithing for so many promises made..but none has ever happened i was prisoned with this idealistic mind of having my first love last, peer pressure and all. I was blinded by that rule that though iam feeling so much miserable and i know i will when we end up together i still struggle to fight for it, though im the only one who wants to kip it, because of my idealsim. Where i no longer even know myself and my boundaries for this love.
then one day i met this guy (noli). Iam new at work and we were introduced. at that moment i had a womans instinct , that something would happen to us..not that i had a love at first sight, not love at all..So what i did, i kept my distance to him because iam a loyal and faithful girl and iam taking care of a relationship, that for me its no more love at all but more of the idealism of life. but something happened to make us closer..and closer to each other. much more when i had my heartbtreak and im struggling to fight for the relationship because “sayang nmn ang tagal na nmin, ano ang sasabihin ng mga tao?ng parents namin?ng friends namin? which i have been out of the circle already because he made me..but more so ..of my idealism that he has to be my last guy, because he was my first. but noli made me realize how life is..not to be prisoned by the thing you think is right , but what makes you happy and sees your worth, which made me realize that maybe he’s right God has showed me a lot of signs telling me your not meant for each other, but i refuses to acknowledge..to make the long story short i let go…
and after a few months of friendship love grows and was nurtured..i saw my self with as a very happy person, a person i never knew i was until he came and showed me.he was a complete opposite of my last guy, and make me feel my worth, respect me so much and love me so deeply.
i found my one true love thru text…YES! You read it right, my husband used to be my textmate for only few months. Sabi nga maraming relasyon ang nabubuo at nasisira sa txt. At salamat at biktima kmi ng isang nabuong relasyon.
Prior meeting my destiny, just like you Bro. Bo, I also tried to plan my life. It started when I turned 18. I told myself,i’ll start to get in a serious relationship as I turned 20, wished to be engage at 23 and get married at age 24-27. All came true. God answers my prayers and everything fall into order. And yes,as you said,we have to be precise of our prayers, I forgot to note that the one I can get to engage with should be my husband too. Yes, I was engaged with my ex bf (then of course we thought will be the father of my kids). But things didn’t all turned out well. My father died in 2003 and he has to leave the country too. 2003 was a difficult year for me. We tried to linger the overseas affair but it only last for 3 years. Then he quit. And so, my life continues…I thought of my age target…im turning 27 and unattached.
2006.I do not know if it’s an instinct or just a wishfull thinking, but I have a good friend to attest to this one. I started to hear wedding bells and even dreamt of walking down the aisle with a groom’s face blurred. Then I started praying hard. Must this be the answer to my life’s plan or a devil’s advocate since im nearing my finish line.
Mid of 2006, a good friend told me she gave my # to her old friend in highschool and i should expect a call from him soon, which really happened. We bacame constant call buddies & txtmates. I didnt take that seriously until I found myself feeling my oldself again…started to care, started to be sweet and started to feel kabado. After almost a month, we decided to meet. He fetch me on my office. It was a click.
To cut the story short, I planned. I prayed and was answered. I believed he also does, sa kanya ko narinig yung “DEO GRACIAS”, which means, Thanks God everytime he would say he loves me. And we simply let God do His plan for us. After 5 months (yes…ganun kabilis!) we got solemnized. and after another 4mos, I conceived…now, we are enjoying His greatest gift and we call her FAITH, simply believing that entrusting your plans to HIM, will put all else in order.
Hay..ang sarap ma-inlove.!
I met Jerry at Ong Yiu Apartment- Panganiban, Cebu City who was also a boarder in this apartment. We came from different provinces of Mindanao, he is from Zamboanga and I am from Agusan. We were taking college in one of cebu’s universities, he studied in University of San Jose Recoletos and I was in University of San Carlos.
Jerry was my crush and honestly, I specifically prayed and asked GOD for him. I still remember what I said, and I quote:
“Lord, I am already 19 years old, I’m somewhat curious of how it feels to love and be loved by someone. Lord, I want that someone to be JERRY”
With GOD’s intervention he became my boyfriend on March 24, 1996. Since it was my first experience to have a boyfriend, I have set my mind that I would be the best girlfriend, this person could ever have. Every day, I gave/sent him love notes, just a simple thank you message that would make his day. I was in third year BS accountancy that time and he was also in the third year BS civil engineering. Our school time was so demanding and that we agreed to meet only during Fridays (met at Sto. Niño Church and attended mass) and on Saturdays ( met at SM or Ayala and watched movies and ate dinner together.)
That was just the routine, until we graduated, took and passed our respective board exams. He got worked in DPWH Manila and I went home in our province in Agusan and got work in the Commission on Audit.
We experienced long distance relationship for almost two years but thanks to the new technology, we already had celphones that time. Being away from each other did not hinder our relationship. We put our 101% trust to each other and through earnest prayers, we survived the trials of being apart.
Last 2001, Jerry sacrificed his work in Manila and decided to try his luck in my hometown, for us to be together na. That was not easy at all. He find it so hard to adjust because he was new and a total stranger to my place. It was then I invited him to join with me in the Singles for Christ community. There, our relationship became stronger and our personally relationship with the Lord also became deeper. I helped him search for a job, and thanks GOD, he landed as contractual in DPWH, Butuan and eventually transferred to EMB.
…. And on September 6, 2003, tied the knot to my crush, my first and last boyfriend, who after 7 years of steady relationship became my husband and the father of my two beautiful daughters, Juliana Christine and Eliza Marie.
I am very proud to say that JERRY is my answered prayer. He is my GG ( GOD’S GIFT), my one true love. Presently, we are serving as household leader in the Couples for Christ community in our place.
i found my one true love thru text…YES! You read it right, my husband used to be my textmate for only few months. Sabi nga maraming relasyon ang nabubuo at nasisira sa txt. At salamat at biktima kmi ng isang nabuong relasyon.
Prior meeting my destiny, just like you Bro. Bo, I also tried to plan my life. It started when I turned 18. I told myself,i’ll start to get in a serious relationship as I turned 20, wished to be engage at 23 and get married at age 24-27. All came true. God answers my prayers and everything fall into order. And yes,as you said,we have to be precise of our prayers, I forgot to note that the one I can get to engage with should be my husband too. Yes, I was engaged with my ex bf (then of course we thought will be the father of my kids). But things didn’t all turned out well. My father died in 2003 and he has to leave the country too. 2003 was a difficult year for me. We tried to linger the overseas affair but it only last for 3 years. Then he quit. And so, my life continues…I thought of my age target…im turning 27 and unattached.
2006.I do not know if it’s an instinct or just a wishfull thinking, but I have a good friend to attest to this one. I started to hear wedding bells and even dreamt of walking down the aisle with a groom’s face blurred. Then I started praying hard. Must this be the answer to my life’s plan or a devil’s advocate since im nearing my finish line.
Mid of 2006, a good friend told me she gave my # to her old friend in highschool and i should expect a call from him soon, which really happened. We bacame constant call buddies & txtmates. I didnt take that seriously until I found myself feeling my oldself again…started to care, started to be sweet and started to feel kabado. After almost a month, we decided to meet. He fetch me on my office. It was a click.
To cut the story short, I planned. I prayed and was answered. I believed he also does, sa kanya ko narinig yung “DEO GRACIAS”, which means, Thanks God everytime he would say he loves me. And we simply let God do His plan for us. After 5 months (yes…ganun kabilis!) we got solemnized. and after another 4mos, I conceived…now, we are enjoying His greatest gift and we call her FAITH, simply believing that entrusting your plans to HIM, will put all else in order.
Hay..ang sarap ma-inlove.! Thanks for continously inspiring us Bro. Bo!
Hi there Bro. bo..
I am not a single anymore when i meet my true love…
And i didn’t know about your book honestly.
I am married to a certain guy who happens to be my officemate before.. after a thousands of scenarious we were separated before i gave birth to my first lovely child… My world ends when that thing happens… Micery was great upon me. All i was able to think is my precious one that still in my womb, that it was seven months then. He left me without any words or explanation.( Oh by the way he has three kids on his first family but he is not married to her).
Well… i bore my precious daughter and with out him i cared and nortured her. It so happen one day that i met one of my closest friend here in cubao and then on we started goin out together with his friends, there i meet NICO, he’s very much single then. I dont know what way the LORD was leading but we fell in love with each other despite the fact that he knows the full story of my life. I hide nothing from him.When i introduced him to my precious daughter and its all a perfect scene, i cried a lot because i’ve seen how he loves my daughter very much.. Its’s a sin i know to lived with him because i’m still married to the father of my first baby, but how could i deny such loved that NICO was given me and my daughter. I bore one precious with him because he ask ed if he could have one. Now i have a happy family that i could call to,,,, NICO, my precious daughter ISAY and my precious son JIO and ME.
i was almost at the OUTER RIM of my BEING A CATHOLIC when i met my husband. a “quasi old ex-seminarian” whose 8 years my senior (i was 23 then he was 31). one november night, while i was staring at one of my favorite constelallation, i ask God to please give me a Catholic man (cause my past bf belong to different sects). not knowing that in the far flung area of our city was another man, staring at the same group of stars, praying to God the same thing.
i am so much sure that God was staring at the two of us and once again waved his hand… and suddenly… it’s magic!
now we’re 1 year and 5 months married both walking in the neocathecumenal way, batangas community.
i was born on the feast of st. francis of assisi, he came from the Franciscan Order (capuchin brothers).
they say it’s conicidence. i say it’s destiny…
Thanks Bo, you just don’t know how your books and articles helped to become the better person that i am today.
i found my one true love through prayer…
after series of failed relationships and false hopes for the wrong person… i decided to make a deal with papa God in 2004… i’ll stay single for 2 years with my whole life solely devoted to Him. For those 2 years i prayed for Him to prepare my heart and the heart of the man i’m going to live the rest of my life with. a life of constant prayer and wanting to know God all the more everyday made those 2 long years great and very fulfilling, i have found boundless faith and joy. also, i have built a solid relationship with the Lord and that very relationship guided me and gave me strength to leave home…
i worked abroad in 2006, back then i was in love with a good friend but we did not have any commitment, i don’t know but i seem to have loved him more than he loved me… i have loved the guy since college, was reunited with him in 2005 after less than 2 years only to leave and find greener pastures some place else. he promised to keep in touch but our communication became more seldom as time passed by… until there was no communication at all… one day, i read his blog where he mentioned a relationship with somebody else -a sexual relationship… i have kept myself pure with hopes that someday, I’ll give my whole self to the man God is blessing me with and the very person I loved has not been fair to me. i felt betrayed and unloved but i was thankful for i would not have given up on him and would have remained faithful if those things did not happen. For some time, that loyal, hopeful love stopped me from opening my heart. the relationship I have built with the great Father helped me move on in time when my 2nd year agreement with God is about to end. then I met my own “BO” – he was everything i prayed for… he did not let go of me even when I kept pushing him away, nobody expected we’ll get married a year and 8 months later but I knew, that time when i gave him the chance to love me and take care of me that he is the one I have been waiting for. Now, after 8 months of blissful marriage, i know things will be difficult sometimes yet I also know that our prayers will always pull us through just like how the prayers to the very same gracious Hand have brought us together.
God bless everyone!
My true story about love is something quite different from any other relationship stories I have known (I guess?) & I think it’s kinda awkward in my part if I’m the one who should tell this story to the public or should I let my partner to do the honor instead but i’ll tell it anyway. It all begun through simple text messaging (you know the “hu u?, wer na u? d2 na me” stuffs) where i supposed to befriend the person, get to know each other & look forward for a more intimate relationship. At first it didn’t worked out as planned because I soon found out that she had a boyfriend. We still became text mates though in fact I specifically became her advisor about love & relationships, her comforter in times of sorrows & grievances (most specially with her past & present relationships), or I may say her boy bestfriend. She kept on changing boyfriends very often as if she’s looking for a certain trait that she can’t find to anyone else (but me NAKS!) I care so much about this girl (& I don’t know why?), so much that I suddenly fell in love with her with no questions asked about her past but she doesn’t knew it back then & that caused so much pain in my heart. I continued in listening to her problems & giving her advices eventhough it really hurts to see her crying in sadness & absorbing it while keeping a certain uncomfortable feeling (jealousy as you may say) everytime the topic of our conversation suddenly shifted to the happy moments with her boyfriend. Later on she soon found out the truth about my real intentions to her & she just kept on ignoring that & she wanted us to be just friends. But when it came to the point that I decided to leave her, she suddenly came to the scene & asked me to stay for she had finally found what she was looking for (NAKS! ulit). To cut the story short she ended up with me & we’re living a peaceful & happy life with our daughter, son & our upcoming baby girl. (I LOVE YOU MAJAL!)Thanxs. - ” True love does not come by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.”
My lovestory is about being whole myself before fully commiting to my one true love. Prior to meeting my true love I was in a relationship with another guy. What in the beginning started out as love, ended in manipulation, destruction, and the loss of ones self-value. During this time of distress, I sought for a way out, for a way to find freedom from that bondage in the relationship. The way was Jesus. I had found God, which totally brought a wedge between me and my ex, because our relationship was God-less. In the process of our break-up I met my one true love but we remained just friends because the relationship with my ex completely destroyed my self-worth. I had to learn to love myself first and to build up myself again. This was not pleasing to my ex, who wouldn’t stop from either getting us back together or manipulating me - even to the point that he threatened with suicide. I was filled with guilt because he had been my best friend and boyfriend for a long time and couldn’t stand seeing him like that. So, I also was afraid to leave him. That was the lowest point in my life where I put it all in God’s hands, knowing that God is number one in my life and that God would take care of my ex whatever the circumstance. From that moment, I cut all communication with him and let God take control of my life. After a few months, when I had somehow recovered, I told my one true love how I felt about him and from there our life together began. Now, we are both serving God and we are engaged =D I’ve learned that the best relationship is one where there are three involved, my fiance, myself, and God…
Bro Bo,
My story was published in your Magazine last October 2006 in column dear Kerygma ” I was Date Raped and Got Pregnant” i was so depress at that time but enlighten with Sis Ditas Español with her message.
When you launch your book “How to Find Your One True Love?” i was really excited and immediately buy the book. I share it with my friends and in my community of Singles for Christ (SFC).
I never thought that the book will help me alot to find my one true love. Last February of 2007 i attended the Singles For Christ - International Leaders Conference (ILC) in Lanao Del Norte. The workshop “Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus” made me realize alot of things when it comes to courtship and relationships. The workshop was really timing for me because the day before i travel from Manila to Cebu and going to Lanao i had a Valentine’s date with a guy in SFC. I thought it was just a friendly date but when he surprise me and give me a rose kinabahan nako. He told me that he likes me but i said to him not to pursue because i came from a bad relationships and im not yet ready. Going back to the workshop the line that strucks me is “Show kindness and respect even if you like the person or you don’t like the person at all”. When i came back to Manila I want to show kindness to him so i give him ILC shirt and lend him the book “How to Find your One True Love”. After that our love story begins… We’re one year and six months in a relationship right now. We both enjoy serving the Lord in our community of Singles for Christ. We’re planning to get married in the year 2010.
Thank you so much Bo for helping me find my one true love.
Michael was my classmate in some subjects during college. We were not close at that time; I just know that he’s my classmate. I was popular in our department, being an officer of an organization. He was just an ordinary guy.
Then we found ourselves applying for the same position in a company in Iligan City. We were hired on the day of our final interview. They hired the two of us even if they initially wanted to hire only one staff. God is good.
We became friends and part of the office barkada.
In one of the readings on my birthday, God gave me a sign that I will meet the person I’ve been praying for.
I did not know it would be Michael because I had another crush at that time. God is truly wonderful.
Four years and a day after we started our relationship, we were married in the church where I dreamed I would be wed.
In Michael, I found a remarkable man. Thank You, God, for answering my prayers.
I am so inspired with your stories guys.
I wish I have a story to tell, but unfortunately I’m one of the NBSB club.
God bLess you all and Live Happily Ever After.
have you found your one true love? hope somebody from the age group level of 65 and above would answer that question and share their stories since they are the only ones i think who could rightly claim that they did found their one true love. thanks.
Because I don’t have a story of mine. Let me share the story of my father and my step mom.
My father is a leader of a religious group (a non-catholic one) while my step mom was a devout catholic and she almost entered the convent (for she has this devotion to serve the poor and she tought all the while that it would mean being a nun).
My dad was a doctor, while my step mom was a fresh med tech grad waiting for the board exam results.
They met around 1989, when my step mom attended one of the worships of my dad’s religious org to sell car freshner (haha. it was a part time racket! haha) it was also an accident why my step mom ended up selling there, an acquaintance in the same company who sells the same product invited her. my step mom got stunned by this powerful ways the man moves and speaks.
When my father found out that she’s a medtech graduate he asked her to come by again the following week so she can help the community. without any hesitations she said yes, for it is her vocation to help out in any means. And so the following week, she helps by giving out free blood pressure reading.
The next day, my father invited her to go to Pampanga (my dad’s provincial residence) for reasons she couldn’t undersand she said yes. It was a short formation of the love feelings they have for each other, they silently fell inlove. they didn’t talked about it (i wonder how that works.haha) and on their way home back to manila, my father was already holding her hands and not letting it go (not even a sec). they knew then that they will be together. (i cannot still understand how can that possibly happen hehe)
According to my step mom, before ending the day they went to Himlayang Pilipino it was a memorial park where my dad’s father rests. infront my lolo’s grave my dad cried and said this words: “nakita ko na po ang babaing makakaunawa at makakatuwang ko sa buhay kong ito.”
That’s how their relationship started… they got married the year after and had their first born in the year 1993.
Their married life was not a smooth course, well you know my dad had previous affairs before her. And I was a fruit of that. Also, as what i have mentioned earlier they don’t belong in the same faith. But never did they argue about that, until my step mom joined the organization and rendered the same services my father gives, helping the needy (spiritual&physical help) and providing free health care services (well, she eventually became a doctor too..) they put up a clinic in an island in quezon wherein they built their family, my dad would occassionaly visit manila to perform his duty as a the religious organization’s leader as well as a husband and a father.
Heart breakingly though, my father passed away last November 2007. After days in comatose he finally let go, the day after my step mom arrived from quezon.
Their story was different, weird maybe. But they managed to live a family life just like how they wished, dreamed and prayed for.
the book did not help us find each other nor did it help for us to fall in love.
Now, Bro. Bo, please don’t think that I’m starting a fight here. Lol.
When I finally read the book just quite a few months ago, well, I haven’t realized anything. hehe.
as you see, i already have a bf. a wonderful man.
But whenever something happens to us two, be it a rough ride in life or shining shimmering moments, I always thought of that book and made me realize(alas!) that the man I am with now is The One!
Haha! Was I nd still now lucky that he was my man.
I never thought of that cause u see my boyfriend is not exactly what I fantasize of and he doesn’t have my universal weakness when it comes to men in general. Their height. hehe.
But as time passes by for us, I’ve realized that he was a giant himself, even w/o the height.
He made me laugh lots of times which I assure you is really not my everyday me but now because of him I really smile a lot. And i take life everyday as it is and always dream for the future because that is his gift for me. Smiles, dreaming and love.
Boy! He knew what he’s doing I guess…
There is soooo much things I’d like to say about him. To brag all the things he’d done and do and are going to do just for me.But if he ever happpens stumble on this site, I’m sure he’d be embarassed. He’s really quite a shy guy, you know.
anyway, as for the book, what i’ve learned from it is that it made me realize what a treasure I have!
That he’s more worth than all of the golds that the leprechauns have at the end of the rainbow.LOL!
and for that, 3 cheers 4 me!
for finding him about all the hubbub.
nd infinite gratitude kay Boss…
Kasi alam ko sinadya nia na ma-inlove ako sa isang napakabait at mapagmahal na lalake.
by the way, he’s name is Levin…
Love you! And I’m the happiest and luckiest woman on Earth because of you.
I thought I have found him. But after 3 years of friendship, 5 years of bf-gf relationship and 7 years of marriage, I lost him to another person. Now, I am into my fourth year of “singleness”. But with my two kids around and a very promising career, I have been more blessed and happy. I thought i would never fall in love again but was so surprised to have felt strongly for a dear friend despite the distance and whom I have known only for two years now. Nope, we are not together, but I will forever thank God for letting me met this GUY and have allowed me to enjoy this special kind of friendship with him. He will forever be an inspiration. And whether it is just friendship or if we are bound to a more serious relationship in God’s time, I know deep in my heart…I have found my ONE TRUE LOVE.
i am inspired reading all of your stories kfamily on how to find your one true love. God bless to all.
Good day brother Bo! Let me share to you how God has been faithful through my love story.
We met in Youth for Christ as we were introduced by a common friend. We were both leaders of our respective chapters in the campus. She was serving in Diliman area while our chapter was in Taft. I already noticed her pretty face and sweet smile, aside from her passion for serving the Lord. I would always find myself trying to catch a glimpse of her every time there will be a common gathering for all of the campuses. Since we came from different area, there were only few times we really got some encounter and I’m not really a part of her regular set of friends. We just became a common acquaintance. What I didn’t notice was I’m becoming deeply infatuated with her and the few times we talked she could really tell that I am blushing in front of her.
The day I decided to pray for a career in medicine, I also started praying for her. My prayer for the Lord was to give me opportunities to get close to her and better asses how I really feel, to know if the infatuation could grow into love. I prayed to Him that “what ever happens to this discernment, whether we will end up together or not, it was Jesus I will gain in the end.” He answered me with Matthew 14:27— “Courage, it is I. Don’t be afraid.”
But the opportunities did not came. Instead, one of my dearest friend, a fellow leader and a great brother in Christ, was the one getting more involved with her. Eventually, that brother (who knew I have feelings with the girl) admitted to me that he was also falling for her. With God’s promise that it was He I will gain, I told myself maybe they are the one who were meant to be and started to back off. Even though I feel jealous of his stories of them, I can say with all honesty that I feel happy for my friend.
Eventually, that friend had to express his feelings to her. But she said she was not yet ready to enter a romantic relationship and had other priorities during that time. I took that as a sign from God and my perspective was purified. Before, my intentions of knowing her was to know how I feel for her but after the incident I want to know her for the pure purpose of knowing her. And the wall between us began to crumble. I tried calling her and talking to her without any hidden agenda on my part aside from the desire of knowing her. And it took away any pretensions I had in me.
It’s like hitting two birds with one stone. After several months of being good friends I found out that she is a great person. I also confirmed to myself that I love her. I told her my feelings and asked her to allow me to express myself to her. And if it happens that the feeling became mutual and she would respond in the same way, I told her “bonus ko na yun.” After some discernment in her part, she also said those three sweet words.
That was three years ago. And now, in spite of our distance (she’s in Cebu while I’m here in Manila) we are patiently waiting for that moment God set for us to get married and be together. We are two imperfect persons trying to give back to God the little that our relationship could offer, all for His greater glory.
Three years ago I took the the seminar of Bro.Bo’s How to find your one true love. I find it exciting and inspiring. I decided to read the book and take the challenge. Because I was too busy with my work and with my extra curricular activities I didn’t really take it seriously but i did some of the suggestions where to find good guys. So I enrolled in the gym, joined in Badminton and even mountain climbing. I did enjoy everything but still there’s something missing.
January 2008, I decided to take the course seriously with the help of my close friends. I followed bro.bo’s suggestions and answered all the questionnaires. I even pray for it.
I have a co-teacher who happened to be my friend and my partner teacher. He is a nice guy, sweet, caring, loving and gentleman. He’s really like that to everyone. I treated him as a friend and as a partner teacher though i noticed that he’s giving me special atttention but I didn’t entertain any romantic thought coz i know that he’s naturally sweet and caring. I dont want to assume anything. In one of my prayer time…God told me to really look at him and so I ask God why? I obeyed God because he said so. We are together almost everyday in school even after school. We always have dinner together, laughed together and talked about our students and work. During those moments I realized that Im starting to like him. God revealed to me the qualities that I wanted to a man. I only prayed two things to God about what I feel for Him one is ” Lord, If the feeling is not for me, take it away from me because I dont want to get hurt.” the second is” God kung siya po ang lalaking gusto nyo para sa akin, ibigay nyo po sya ng buong-buo.” I pray that to God consistently and really perservere in my prayers.
Some of our colleagues would tell us that we are perfect for each other and they would tease us but still i didn’t entertain the thought coz i know that they were just teasing us.
Though I have some sleepless nights that i would really cry to God because you like someone but you cant do anyting about it. So i would just cry out to God..one more thing that God told me in my prayer was ” Cla, just love him.” so I said ” Love him Lord?” kahit nasasaktan ako kse i dont know what he really feels for me. What if he doesnt like me I dont want to get hurt.” I agrued with God.
God really works in mysterious ways. I cant believe the courage that God gave to me when I told about to two of my closest colleagues whatever the result may be i told them just to end my agony about my feelings towards him.
Through this people i found out that he also likes me but im getting impatient because he is too slow. I prayed for Him that God will give him the courage to express what he really feels about me.
True enough started to court me, and still persistently pray for it. Finally he proposed to me….and now He (Joper ) is my one true love.
After 31 years of waiting God really made things beautiful in his time. And I know that God is faithful to finish the work He begun in us.
Let me share this to you which rearlly inspired me:
” Love may take long. But it will take you to where you belong. Just hold on and enjoy the journey. No need to hurry coz your heart will know when its finally home. Learn to trust the perfect time so that you may discover that all the pain found in waiting has a magnificent and awesome purpose. In God’s time, you fall in love for the right reason with the right person. When that time comes,love will be worth the wait, the tears, the pain. Then you’ll foget you ever waited.
Just keep on loving….
Im so inspired with your stories guys. I wish I have also story to tell but unfortunately I am one of the NBSB club.
Wish you all the best and have a Happily Ever After.
God Bless.
Im quite excited really to share OUR LOVE STORY.. i hope it will inspire people.
I met my husband in my office. We were introduced by my officemate. Without my knowledge, my officemate gave my cel no to him. And he started texting me at first with corny jokes. Nakakainis. Bale nakilala ko sya sa txt lang and I thought he was not a serious person. I happen to get to know him well when I intentionally interviewed him for my project paper in graduate school. I actually pretended tthat I needed to interview him for there were info that I was not able to get from his boss.hehehe I know strategy ko lang para makilala ko personally. (Buking!) In that short period of time of interviewing him, I found out he was not married even he was already 40 years old. One of the reasons was because of his attachment to his 75-year old father. I found it so touching that I thought that time if this person can take good care of his parents, he will surely take good care of me and our family ( nag dream agad, hehe). Basically, we have similar values. From then on, I changed my impression of him. That was where we began our friendship until naging boyfriend ko sya. One occasion, when we attended to a mass, I asked him what was his prayer. He told me that sana ako na ang babaeng gift ni Lord para sa kanya. I was again surprised by his prayer. Actually I discovered na he is a deep person, prayerful person. Basically we have the same values in life - faith and family. In less than a year naging husband ko sya and now we have 7 month old baby girl.
I’m inspired with your stories guys. I wish I have also story to tell but unfortunately I’m one of those NBSB.
But I’m still praying and hoping that I will meet My Prince soon. (he he..)
Well, wish all the best and Live Happily ever after
God bless
I’m inspired with your stories guys. I wish I have also story to tell but unfortunately I’m one of those NBSB.
But I’m still praying and hoping that I will meet My Prince soon. (he he..)
Well, wish all the best and Live Happily ever after
God bless
I’m inspired with your stories guys. I wish I have also story to tell but unfortunately I’m one of those NBSB.
However, I’m still praying and hoping that I will meet My Prince soon. (he he..)
Well, wish all the best and Live Happily ever after
God bless
I am a religious person who came from a religious family. Well, i first fall in love when i met the man i thought who love me when i was on my first job. we are co-workers. i found out that he was already married but he have problems with his wife. his wife has another man. we became mutual friends. he told me his problems and ask for advice, eventually we became lovers. He separate from his wife but because there is no such thing as a divorce here in the Philippines, we didn’t get married even though he want’s to marry me. I forgot God all those times. I was so busy with my relationship with him that i didn’t even go to attend mass. Until after 2 1/2 years i found out that i am not the only girl in his life. I fought for him and forgive him several times but he never change until my heart finaly gave up. that was the worst days of my life. i went back to God and pray. i became active again in the church. i still believe that someday i will find the guy that God has for me. and so after more than 1 year i met him in the net. he is a very religious guy, a Christian like me. more religious than me actually. and i know that he is the one for me. when i was in high school i ask God for a sign, a sign that would help me to know if he is the one. and God gave me that sign. we are not married yet and he doesn’t know about the sign. he is coming here to visit me. it take him several months just to get a ticket. i saw him almost giving up but i told him not to loose hope. I prayed to God to let him have the ticket that he was aiming. after 4 days, God answered my prayer. We are both praying for God to guide us in our relationship. and i know He will continue guiding us until it is time to tie the knot
yes, i have found my one true love in the person of my best friend, my God’s gift! i was nursing a broken heart back in ‘98, that lead me to involve myself in SFC (Singles for Christ). God gave me a group of friends who were also going through their own brokeness. As me and Koots grew in our involvement with SFC, our relationship with God deepened, and so with our friendship. After asking for healing, renewing myself, and God to lead me to the right man that I can commit in marriage, He pointed all arrows to pursue my relationship to whom I considered as my “God’s Gift” - Koots. We believe that we do not complete each other, we are “bonuses” in our own wholeness, just like the cherry topping on a special ice cream. As our prayer goes, “Lord, make us grow more in love with you so that we may radiate that love to each other.” After more than 3 years of being friends & lovers, and almost 6 years of being married, I am more than grateful to God’s pushes and nudges that made me take the big leap and commit to Koots. Our formula goes FRIENDSHIP + COUPLE RELATIONSHIP + GOD = HAPPY MARRIAGE!
Good day, Bro. Bo… here’s my story… pasensya kung masyadong mahaba.
Let me start the “story” with the melodramatic part. I grew up in a dysfunctional family. When I was a child, I was sexually molested by a close relative. This nightmare went on and on for years. I felt really helpless back then, all I could do was to cry out to Him each night…praying, “Please Lord, help me… help me escape”. I remember going to school with puffed eyes…but still my friends and classmates did not know anything about it. They see me as someone who’s always in high spirits. I’m smart, I’m talented (I sing well..ahem.. eat your heart out, sarah geronimo!), I’m the joker, I’m everybody’s friend. I was always laughing outside but deep inside, I’m crumbling.
Feeling I was worthless, I tried different vices: smoking, drinking, name it.. I tried it. I couldn’t care less! I have nothing to lose…I even had a homosexual relationship when I was in college! For the 4 years I’ve been with her, I was happy…really, but I don’t know, I feel there’s still an inner struggle deep within me. I know this whole relationship was wrong. I was not at peace with myself. I felt lonely, devastated, helpless, depressed, had suicidal tendencies… and on the verge of having a nervous breakdown..hehe.
Fast forward, I graduated from college (woohoo!). Applied for work as a programmer. A software company called me up for an interview. They were hiring a batch of programmer trainees. Wearing my one and only business attire and my high heeled shoes, off I went to the interview… Arrived there 30mins early. While I was waiting, a handsome guy (naks! Spoiler ano!? hehe) approached me and asked, “Excuse me, are you also here for an interview?”. “Yep, I am” was my short reply. He was trying hard to strike a conversation with me… actually, I can’t remember anymore how our “conversation” went and ended. I was interviewed by one manager while he was interviewed by another. When my interview was finished, I just went home without realizing what lies ahead… Tan ta ra- raannn!!!
Two weeks later, HR called up again and notified me that I am hired. I was to undergo a 1-month programming training at the Asia Pacific College (Geez, I won’t forget this school.. always brings a smile on my face whenever I pass by this school via SLEX =). On the first training day, I was late (as expected of moi). I never realized that there was this one soul who’s wishing and hoping and praying to see me again on the same class. His heart jumped out of joy (daw!) when he saw me entering the room. We were, I think, 20 in the class then. We were a happy bunch and hit it off right away. I got to meet new friends and he was one of them. Note that during these times, I still have no inkling that he likes me and…. I was still very much into the homosexual relationship. I was contented and in love. I wasn’t looking for anyone…
Second week of training, we were taught the command on sending messages to other terminals (high-tech na ito back then..bwaha). I was doing our hands-on exercises when a message popped up on my screen, “Hello. Pwede bang sumabay pag-uwi?”. Call me naïve..but I interpreted it talaga literally as “sasabay lang siya sa amin pag-uwi”… hhehehe. Everyday kasi may 2 gal pals akong kasabay umuwi. We always part ways when we reach the LRT station as I’m heading south while my 2 friends are both north-bound. Then I got surprised when this guy, Ok, his name is Ralph… never left my side. Then it hit me, “Oh no, is this guy courting me?”. Haha! Sobrang manhid talaga. He accompanied me home that night. I was asking him “kung pwede hanggang kanto na lang namin” but no, pinagpilitan nya talaga ang sarili niya na hanggang bahay …! Assertive! He introduced himself to my parents.
From that time on, he always accompany me home. Still… I felt no attraction towards him. I was still very much in love with my girlfriend (gives me goosebumps, mentioning it now). I was bored talking to him and thought that we don’t have anything in common. That was until he uttered these magic words…”You know what, back in college, my friends and I formed a band..and I’m the vocalist. We play rock, we play Metallica” Ka-ching! Ka-ching! OMG!!! My heart melted right away! Haha! Sobrang weakness ko kaya ang rocker dude!? Haha. I so loooove rock music. He’s the man! Mababaw man….but really, it broke the ice. I gave him the chance. We got to know each other better.
My girlfriend got news of the courting…and got hurt. We talked about it and it turned out we were thinking the same thing from the very beginning, that our relationship will lead us to nowhere. We were just so afraid of letting go. Anyway, we parted ways and still remained good friends up to this day. She’s active now in Singles for Christ. Always in travel, exploring the world.
So ayun…. Sobrang fast forward ulit….. Ralph and I eventually became a couple. I have so many insecurities in life. I always feel worthless (did i mention this already?), I feel ugly… Can’t blame me, I mean, I’ve been through hell and back. Ralph knows all my deepest darket secrets. With his love and affection, slowly… I gained back the “confidence” I lost during my childhood years. He has a way of making me feel like I’m the most beautiful woman on the planet. He is patient, loving, caring, {supply all other aaawww adjectives you can think of}. He’s proof that angels do exist. =) I just feel like God sent him to me… eto ang promise Niya sa akin…and I just claimed it. Ralph and I now have two daughters. Hay naku, words aren’t enough to describe how happy and fulfilled I am. Cliché as it may sound….there really is sunshine after the rain.
P.S. remember yung “may rock band kami..” line? Hay naku… they did have jamming sessions, alright…but they were terrible musicians! Grabe. Sintunado talaga. Haha. Madalas ko syang binibiro, “Siguro when you were courting me, sinabi sa ‘yo ni Lord na yun ang sabihin mong line…” and boy did it work!
Yes, i found my one true love in a way only God can orchestrate. While i was nursing a broken heart, and redeeming my self-esteem, I involved myself in the Catholic community Singles for Christ (SFC). During this time, I sought the Lord’s healing, and guidance as I restore my esteem and brokeness and prayed for a future partner given some non-negotiable criterias - a man with a high ESQ (emotional and spiritual quotient).
While in the process of knowing myself and growing in my relationship with God, I would often be in the company of SFC friends who were also nursing their own brokenness. We would often attend SFC activities together, hang out and make plans together. Among our group is Koots, who I would often speak with about so much things, including what we are going through.
After months of knowing each other, God lead me to see the arrows pointing to Koots, that he is the one He wants me to be with. After much prayer and discernment, I took the risk and said yes. We believe that we did not complete each other, we are rather God’s gifts and bonuses to each other. As our prayer goes, “Lord, make us grow more in love with you as we radiate that love to each other.”
After being a friends and lovers for more than 3 years, and being married for almost 6 years, we are indeed more greateful for heeding God’s call to marriage. Our formula goes, GOD + FRIENDSHIP + HAPPY COUPLE = HAPPY MARRIAGE! It was indeed great to have each other as our one true love!
I am very thankful for receiving this kind of mails. But one thing is, not all men are hurtfull or “jerk” as we might call it, but there are also women. I’ve said this because i am married for 11 years, our financial status is very bad and most of the time my family is helping us to survive. Eventhough both of us are working it is still not enough to support us. My wife was always advising me in the past couple of years to go out of the country to work but the LOVE for my family is kept me from doing so. Later on, i realized that it will not be enough for us since my children is now growing-up. So i took the big step and applied for a job (out of the country), did not told her unless i got the job( didn’t want to get her hopes up). When i told her that i got the job she was surprised and glad because finally we will be able to get out of poverty. In 2005, i left, sending her my monthly salary. In 2007, i came back ( finished contract ) hoping to start a new future, but instead i found out that i was burried in debt ( enourmous amount in credit card, my kids tuition fee, neighbors) to top that of, i did not see my wife anymore not even in the airport up to now. I did not know what happen. Communication problem - i always call every month (4 times a month). Money problem - definelty not because i am sending her more than enough. Me “Nambababae” definetly not. I don’t think she is dead because she is still communicating to her family and sometimes to my kids. My only guess is that she found some else. So for info. May Anne, not only men but there are also women who are doing this kind of this. What happen to me is what i may say un-common, usually it happens men (OCW) leaving their wife but for me it happens in reverse.
I believe it takes a lifetime to know one person. It takes the next lifetime to truly love that person. Strange but this is exactly what I felt when I met him. The moment I met him I knew that this lifetime is only meant for loving him completely. But I was a skeptical, sensible and logical person doing my MBA and was at the early steps of the corporate ladder…so I totally ignored that knowledge and the powerful feeling that came with it. And so we led different lives, but that one love was haunting me day and night, like a bad dream that never went away. Until one fine day, he found me. It tore me apart. We’re already both married to different individuals. At that point we just realized that we should have married each other. And we both agreed that we stick with our current partners and be loyal to our families. However, the love for each other remains. We manifested that love by encouraging each other to take care of our families as best we could, to be great partners to our spouses and wonderful parents to our kids. After several years my own marriage crumbled because of incompatibility issues. And so I asked for his support to help me heal emotionally. He restored my faith in myself to become the best mom there could be for my children. In turn I am dissecting my failed marriage to make his’ stronger and binding. We were there for each other selflessly. I have found my man but I didn’t stake my claim. I let him live the life that I wanted him to live. And we have agreed to meet each other in the next lifetime. We ceded to the knowledge that our love knows no boundaries - we don’t know where and how it started and we hope that it will last for eternity.
I dunno if this is something that I could share…because my husband is not into “renewal” or even a stout Catholic. I read soulfood a lot, and somehow, this has been my source of inspiration always.
Anyways, my husband and I met through texting 8 years ago. A client of mine gave my number to him. At that time, my previous marriage already collapsed. I was carefree, I was into one-night stands, and never had any serious relationships. I married too young, got into a troubled marriage (i suffered domestic violence with my ex). In short, I was throwing my life away.
When I met my husband, he never placed me on a pedestal. The one thing he said to me that made me take hold of my reins and turn 180 degrees was ” I can play second fiddle to you.But how long will you stay second fiddle to yourself?” He taught me to love myself and make myself feel worthy. Because my ex-husband made me feel worthless, I lost my identity, and in the course of that, I turned to worthless relationships.
I asked God for signs. Then, everything fell into place: I went back to school, finally filed the annulment (because my ex-husband wants out so he can marry his present wife, even this I asked God for signs, and yes, He showed me what I need to know), got a good job, and blessings of my parents.
We’re now married. And I’ not saying it’s a perfect marriage. There are still a lot of struggles that continuously teach us to be humble. But if I will be asked if I will marry at the right time, I know that my husband is still the best thing that happened to me.
Cheers!
He was once my brother (in Christ).
I used to call him “kuya” and I remembered an activity in our org where wrote to me that he sees me as his “little sister”.
He had his own love interests while I had my share of crushes/infatuations. Six years my senior, his tastes, hobbies, and views in life were expectedly very different than mine. Ane yet, more than two years later, after a thousand prayer meetings, phone conversations, text messages, and barbeque sessions, we found that we just had to take our relationship a notch higher. With a lot of prayers, internal debates, and support from those who knew us best, he and I became a “we”.
Fast forward to the present, approximately six years later, we have decided to finally get married. Next year, just before our 6th anniversary, we will finally promise before God and man that we will be one.
Our story may sound like the simple “friends-turned-lovers” plot in many books and movies, but it isn’t really that way. Sure, there are romantic moments and laugh-filled days, but there are also plenty of times times when we both had to revise our expectations, swallow our pride and change for the better. It took (and will forever) take hard work and plenty of prayers. Despite the hardships and inconviences, we still feel happy and blessed.
Truly, God knows best. =)
He was once my brother (in Christ).
I used to call him “kuya” and I remembered an activity in our org where wrote to me that he sees me as his “little sister”.
He had his own love interests while I had my share of crushes/infatuations. Six years my senior, his tastes, hobbies, and views in life were expectedly very different than mine. Ane yet, more than two years later, after a thousand prayer meetings, phone conversations, text messages, and barbeque sessions, we found that we just had to take our relationship a notch higher. With a lot of prayers, internal debates, and support from those who knew us best, he and I became a “we”.
Fast forward to the present, approximately six years later, we have decided to finally get married. Next year, just before our 6th anniversary, we will finally promise before God and man that we will be one.
Our story may sound like the simple “friends-turned-lovers” plot in many books and movies, but it isn’t really that way. Sure, there are romantic moments and laugh-filled days, but there are also plenty of times times when we both had to revise our expectations, swallow our pride and change for the better. It took (and will forever) take hard work and plenty of prayers. Despite the hardships and inconviences, we still feel happy and blessed.
Truly, God knows best. =)
I was a girl who had a childhood crush, I dreamed of this guy from grade school to high school, until I was in 2nd year college, where we met again on-line.we started chatting, it was such a “kilig” moment for me to be able to talk to my long time crush, until one day he surprised me, he showed up at our doorstep and told me that he’s in-love with me. I was so thrilled, I thought to myself, he’s really the one. He must be God’s answered prayer (since during those times I would always say “Lord sana naman magkaboyfriend na ako…” because all of my friends have boyfriends already and I was being left out especially when they’re going on group dates..I was the single among the couples.”) To make the long story short, we dated for 2 years official and 2 years unofficial (meaning the last 2 years, we were no longer “exclusively” dating, but I was still “hoping” and was still convinced that he was “God’s answered prayer.” while he was already seeing other girls.) But the entire time I was with him, I was insecure, I tried to change everything about myself to please him and meet his demands and expectations, but I guess I was never good enough. Our whole relationship ended when he left for another country, I was even the one who packed his suitcases, we had dinner together the night before he left, but what I did not know washe was already “officially” seeing someone, he just told me about the new girl a month after he left and while I was undergoing treatment for an illness I got that almost cause me to be blind. I was really depressed, I was fighting an illness at the same time I was trying to mend a broken heart. To be honest, I did lose my trust in God, I felt like he wasn’t listening, and I even tried to take away my own life. Until one day, after my treatment, I saw in the store window a book called “finding your one true love.” Thought this may have the answers on how I could get back my lost love… The moment I opened the book, I couldn’t stop reading, I feel like the entire book was personally talking to me,, I saw myself in MOST of Bro. Bo’s examples/stories, and I could almost feel like the book wants to slap me in the face and make me realize, that he was not the one, that I shouldn’t be torturing myself cause the guy I was crying over, and was willing to die for was a total jerk! Honestly, without over acting or pulling strings, the book helped me move on… if only you knew the things i’ve been through when i was dating that guy, worst is If only you knew all the other stuffs I tried doing just to be able to move on. Now I know I deserve better, I’m back to being the single among the couples crowd, but I know I’m happy.
My boyfriend and I started as friends before we get deeper into loving each other and deeper into being a business partner. Hopefully, in the next 2 years, we will be facing another chapter in our life as husband and wife. That is if we will be bless enough, through the Creator’s mercy, to make our business flow smoothly and fruitfully. I would like to emphasize that he is my first boyfriend that happens when I’m already 22 years old, and surely the last person I want to be with for the rest of my life. Our relationship started in test, because of his previous relationship. Then after we were able to go through it, we were living a very good life. Not until we chose to make our time together fruitful by investing. Then we have several financial setback and troubles and more financial disagreements. Take note, this is still true up to this point of time. But then all things just happen to make the bond between us stronger. Even though the two of us are too occupied with a lot of work, the pressures and the needs to attend to our business needs and to personal needs, the whole week from Monday to Sunday, we still can find fun in the middle of work and can find time to rest together.
THANKS
My love story? I remember when my students 10 years ago would always asked me about getting married, i just shrugged my shoulders and say he will come in the right time, in God’s time. But i always have that desire to get married or even just find my partner. Got a bf once, but never succeeded. My students have felt the pain i was going through, still the desire and the hope is still there within me. I got hurt a lot because of the false hopes from guys who says they liked me but just made fun of me. You know the telenobela I LOVE BETTY LA FEA? i could really relate to that story, it seems they just find a Betty La fea in me. year after year my students would ask me the same question and i still answer the same thing, in God’s time, in the right time. They have follow up questions already like “When is the right time?”, I still dont know.
What i know is just like the telenobela that the ending is still uncertain. But i believe in my heart, God is still wrting the best love story ever told for me. When i am asked again when will i get married? I just simply say, God is still writing the Love Story for me. I dont know when He will be through writing it, but im sure its one of the best. And i am asking you dear readers to help me pray for that love story i have waited for almost half of my life. God Bless us all.
May our love story be an inspiration….
I was agnostic. He was a pastor’s son.
I was a career woman on the go who believed that one day I die single. Homemaking and homeschooling my children were not part of my vocabulary then.
He works with the Armed Forces and believes that, one day, he would marry a woman who will understand and accept his work and take care of their home and family.
He believes that, with prayers, all things are possible. So, that’s what he did.
He prayed for me for five months (without me knowing) from August 2002 (when we first talked) until sometime in January 2003. I just called him and said, “I think there is a GOD after all. It is real and I believe in HIM.” Only then did he tell me that he has been praying for me since the day I told him that I questioned God’s existence.
And the rest is history.
We were blessed by the elders of our christian family early morning of July 2004 and God confirmed it with a rainbow. Yes a rainbow on our wedding day. What a blessing!
Then we headed to the Court for the Wedding ceremony.
And two days later, he had to leave for call of duty. My one true love is after all a servant of this great country.
It was a rough road to finding my one true love. For three years, I was in a relationship with a jerk (haha) from Iglesia ni Kristo. I was under pressure to convert because he was certain he wouldn’t leave his faith for me. I said I would definitely consider, although in my heart I knew I couldn’t convert and would die if i did. I was certain I wouldn’t be happy again if I abandon my Catholic faith, and that was all that mattered. I was too scared to let the truth out, which is why I took my time, and lived in the moment.
When the pressure became unbearable, I started going to Baclaran every Wednesday. I didn’t know what to pray for — to ask for the jerk to convert? to ask for strength so I can convert? to ask for grace to let go? All I knew was that I needed help and that was what I told God. For some divine reason, I found the masses, crowd, and the “chaos” in Baclaran therapeutic and uplifting which is why I kept coming back, eventually forgetting why I was there for. Until one day, the jerk stopped showing up. I tried to get in touch to find out why but he was not there. A few weeks later, he sent me a text message saying it’s over. (Yes, you read it right, he did it through text. Now, you know why I call him a jerk, to say the least.)
Bo said to describe in a few lines. So, here. The long and short of it is that the jerk and I broke up. I was devastated that I quit work, and find work elsewhere, where people didn’t know me and wouldn’t bug me about my past. Little did I know that the lowest point in my life would turn out to be the biggest blessing, too. Because, in that “elsewhere” where I worked next, destiny was waiting for me. Yup, I found my one true love, whom I married 2 years later. We’re celebrating our 4th yr anniv this month and now have 2 beautiful, healthy girls. But this is another story altogether. I am ending this here, in keeping with Bo’s instruction.
I just want to share this because I know somewhere, there may be someone who is going through want I went through, and couldn’t find the courage to turn his or her back on a “jerk” from another faith. God works in mysterious ways. He ended my dilemma for me because I couldn’t get to do it myself, and put me right back on track to His man for me, and saved my faith where He knew I will be happy.
By the way, did i forget to say? In the middle of those lonely nights after I got the text msg from the jerk, I counted how many Wednesdays I’ve been to Baclaran? Yes, been there 9 times exactly.
hi bro bo,
it always amaze me having to read all your article. thank you so much for your efforts..
honestly, i really don’t know how to start my version of our love story…
im an active member of Singles For Christ here in Singapore and that is where I’ve met him.I am already in the community for more than a year.At that time, i was also in the process of healing myself from the hurt of my past relationship. actually, more than anything i’m more focused in my service rather than looking for a GG (God’s Gift - that’s how we call bf/gf in the community).I told myself that I’ll give my 1st year of being a member of sfc as a service to God and God would be enough for me. We haven’t had the chance to know each other or to be introduced personally during this time.
It was when i felt that i was totally healed, i pray to God that He prepares me the same way that He is preparing the right person for me. Then God talked to me and told me ” in 4 months time.” I really don’t know what does it mean but i do know that 4 mos from that time will be my 28th bday. (august)
SFC-SG supports GK and we are going to the Phils for the GK1MB Build that was held in Bukidnon last April -08. We would normally have meetings in preparation for the build in w/c most of the time I’m not able to attend. He was there and my friends/housemates thought of pairing us up since both of us doesn’t have a gg. I was just laughing about the whole idea and i still didn’t take it seriously and besides i don’t know who was the person they were pairing up to me to start with.
To cut it short, we were first intoduce at Cagayan Airport when we arrived for the Build (i went to phils few days ahead of them so we havn’t met in SG). it was a 5-day build. No special moments or anything during the build as we are more concern of the house that we are actually building for the beneficiaries. although may mga tuksuhan factor,pero nothing serious. they were even asking me what if he courts me when we are back in SG — i just told them, “i don’t think so. he will not do it, or if ever, nadaan lang yan sa tukso”
I was wrong, he did court me and God made me realize that despite of what happened in the past, i can still love again… he was my answered prayer. God has given me His bday gift in advance.
in 3 mos time god has given me my “God’s Gift”. on the 4th month God has showered me more blessings as i was able to go to diff places for a vacation. i got a promoted which gives me regular shift job and more time for my service.
And for all of these,may God be praised!
Hi Mr. Bo!
I had a painful breakup with a former boyfriend— young and foolish at that time, I thought it must have been the end of the world. Just to find out later on that my mom had previously been praying for each of her four kids with fiancees.
Her prayers for my brothers & their respective girlfriends were very specific, but when it came to me, my mom admitted, she didn’t know what to ask God as far as my boyfriend was concerned. So she just said in her prayer, whatever You think is right for her, Thy will be done.
So, to my mind, when my ex-boyfriend called it quits, my heartbreak and my heartache was God’s doing, and my mom’s prompting.
When I finally got over the pain, one day my mom told me that she had the chance to chat with a neighbor who told a story about how she asked God to give her the man of her dreams. The wishes were specific— so specific it seemed funny to me. My mom suggested, “Why don’t you try it?”
Lo and behold (and I don’t know why even did it), every Sunday, at the end of the Mass, I would pray to God, “Please give me a husband who is good hearted, industrious, financially responsible, someone who will be loyal to me, and most importantly, someone who will help me strengthen my faith.”
One night, a long time college friend of mine, whom I have not seen for years, passed by my shop. When he rang the doorbell and I raised my head to see who it was–believe it or not– I suddenly saw a flash of blinding white light. Simultaneously, I heard something like the ‘tinging’ sound of a bell, and a whisper to my ear saying, “He will be your husband,” –all of these happening in a split second. (Okay, I won’t blame you if you say I’m just hallucinating. It’s unbelievable, but I’m not making this up, it’s true. But of course, in front of my friend, I pretended nothing like that happened.)
After that first visit, Herman, started inviting me to several simple friendly dates of mostly movies, restaurants, golfing (but I just tag along), and theme parks. We were happy every time, that it just felt so right. For five happy years, it felt like we got so addicted to being friends, again.
On June 6, 1997, after attending an intensive Discovery Weekend Seminar and a whole day Church seminar at Don Bosco, we were more than eager to say our “I do’s.”
Did God grant me my wishes? Well let’s see… Herman is nicknamed “pure thoughts” in Rotary; he helps me unceasingly when I find myself in trouble; he thinks more than twice before spending on branded items; he loves me so much that he says so everyday and hugs me probably more than 12 times a day; and he is the one who inspired me to attend The Feast. (You know, I haven’t even told him this story yet, hahaha.)
Pray and be specific with what you ask. Marriage is a gift from God.
Hi Mr. Bo!
I’m a freshman college student from Mandaluyong. If you’re reading this you’d think i’m still young to share a story about finding your one true love but i’m telling you this story may help other singles out there. I currently have a boyfriend and we’ve only been together for three months. He’s the type of guy you wouldn’t normally see, he’s good-looking! and i’m just the typical-average girl from Manila. He’s originally from Bulacan but is currently living in Sta. Mesa, Manila. So, i won’t start OUR love story yet.
When i was in third year high school i fell in love with my classmate. I did everything for him in order to help him pass exams. He was the “babaero” kind of guy. Not the ideal bf. There was no formality in how we became bf/gf. He just introduced me as his gf and that’s it. The relationship lasted for ALMOST a month but three days before our first monthsary he broke up with me and told me that he didn’t love me. I was devastated. My friends wanted to kill him! in the end i moved on but still cannot forgive him. I have liked other guys and such but the pain stays the same.
In college, unfortunately, my ex went to the same school as i am but in a different course. I met my knight-in-shining armor during our freshmen welcoming/orientation. My new classmate insisted that i sit next to him. After a week of orientations in one class where we had an activity he asked me if he can court me. We became official after courting me for a week (quick right?) but i tell you it’s not the usual fling. In our relationship we got to know each other and learned more about us and developed true love. As of now we are getting stronger by the minute and i hope it doesn’t end! he is thankful that he has me and same with him. And by golly! Thank God i found him! yes! it was through God that i met my one true love. To be honest, i didn’t originally plan to attend my current school because it was too close from home and i wanted excitement and be far away but i realized that God has planned something for me in my current school that is why he used “instruments” (my family) in order for me to meet my one true love. Secondly, i have been praying to God for over one and a half years to let me meet “the one”, Mr. right, and my prince and thankfully he introduced me to him through that seating arrangement.
I’ve never been more happier in my life! he is the right man for me and i can say that God is a great matchmaker. Bro. Bo i also want you to include us in your prayers that we may always be strong and supportive of one another. This has been the happiest phase of our lives as of now and i pray that this relationship of ours will last a lifetime (or more, as we put it). Thank you for your time reading this short story of mine. Hope you enjoyed it!
ingatz
*God bless
HELLO,
hmmm..I love sharing my love story…4 months before
my BF shows his interest on me (that’s 8 months before I graduated in College).haha. I asked a sign.Sabi ko the first guy who will ask if he can court me when 2006 comes is the right guy for me..Syempre may konting fear kc
what if ung guy d ko feel physically..I don’t have any idea talaga kung cnu..hhmm..But Thank GOd.He gave me the best Boyfriend I can’t afford to lose.I can say one in a million.Ideal BF for me.
grabe..2 years and 6 months n kami pero grabe our relationship for me is so fresh and dami p kilig moments.Sabi ng iba,sa una lang yang mga
kilig moments..I am not saying n we have perfect relationship-of course my misunderstanding minsan,but
we decided and talked it already n we won’t allow problems or misunderstanding ruin our relationship..we have to resolve it immediately..
..dami ako natutunan sa relationship namin.
It is where I learn how to say I love u,sorry and thank you..It is where I actually learn how to express my feelings.Kc d talaga ako showy by nature. Also he won’t tolerate me lalo n pag nagpapakapilya n naman ako.hehe.We both of the same age (23) pero mas younger ako tingnan hehe..childlike daw kc ako eh..
..We were schoolmates way back in High School.Crush ko n sya nun but I didn’t focus my feelings on him kc I am being link to someone n like ko din and MU kami(pero d namn nging kmi)hehe..I dont have any plans of having BF nun lalo n High School(HS) p lang ako….that time I never expected my BF now to court me even after HS.masyado kc mysterious pagkatao nya eh..suplado tingnan..But to my surprise,one day bgla n lang sya ngtxt (4months before my graduation in college) asking me if my gagawin ako
and if I want to go out with him..grabe i got nervous upon reading his txt-parang may something and I ask my self bakit?until i decided n nga lumabas with him but with my friend.D kc ako sanay eh..So ok naman skanya..until nung second time niyaya nya ako,ewan ko b I feel so secure n..that time d n ako ngpasama sa friend ko.grabe nakipagdate n ako mg-isa.hahaha. basta every time we go out together ,I feel so secure tlaga with him.Before we become official as Boyfriend-girlfriend–he have to wait until I graduated college kc I need to seek approval of my parents first as respect to them.I never had BF before kc.
cguro mga 4-5 times din sya nggive-up tapos nging pre official kami din 2 days after graduation officially kami n.hehe.He is my First Boyfriend and probably the last..
hmm..I should say first and last BF ( crossed fingers)..I am his second and his last ( that’s what he says)..ung first nya is long distance and it didnt work-bata p daw kc sya nun.hehe Anyway past is past… what is mportant is that we are both happy,we are building our plans (business,travel..etc..)pero we’re both young pa naman..23 years old..Basta we are enjoying the company of each other..he is my bestfriend,friend,boyfriend,adviser..He is supportive. And also,before I forgot–when I got transferred here in manila (nalipat kc dito company namin-after a week he received a phonecall for a job interview also here in manila-and He grabbed that opportunitty and got the job.Sometimes I teased him that he just followed me here.hehe.. later I found out that my BF already like me ever since High school wala lang sya lakas ng loob kc he knows iba naman gusto ko.hahaha..sabi ko nga..ang haba ng preparations nya before ngkalakas ng loob ah..it took years.:)
And another thing,he was also the guy who asked me if he can court me (dun sa sign n hiningi ko )….that was first hour of 2006..12:30 AM Jan.1,2006….hahaha..an answer to my sign…..I really thank GOD for that..
PS:Both of us are attending “the feast” for I think about 4 months now.Niyaya ko sya eh ng first time ko magaattend.
It really helps strengthen the relationship specially if GOD is the center of it.:)
Hope you enjoyed reading my story:)
Hi Bro. Bo,
Another great book in the making … I don’t expect my love story to be in your book but I did find my one true love 27 years ago! Believe it or not … I actually took a class called “Psychology of Love” as an elective in college. I used to go to San Francisco State University (don’t ask what year) and thought that I would take this class in order for me to understand the real meaning of Love. According to Dr. Buscaglia, Love is a learned phenomenon. Most of us learned from our parents, at least I did. Then as we go through life we learned from our friends and family. I also agree w/ Dr. Buscaglia that one does not fall in and out love; instead, one learns and grows to love. However, it is our choice to love and because love is permanent, it is our choice to grow or not. BTW, I’ve been married for 21 years! I met my husband when I was in high school and actually went to the prom with him. I did not expect to marry my first, serious boyfriend. We broke up a few times when I was in college but I guess we were meant to be … I remember learning that Love is like a mirror because when you love another, you become his mirror and he becomes yours and reflecting each other’s love you see infinity. Being married for 21 years, I learned that love is the ability to let those you care for be who they are without any insistence that they satisfy you. One of my favorite songs is Journey’s Open Arms because Love is Open Arms … if you close your arms to love, you will find that you are left holding only yourself. And lastly, to maintain longevity in a relationship one must simply learn to accept, give and forgive.
God Bless you Bro. Bo and may you have continued success in all your endeavors!
Ours is a match made in heaven. We believe so because we have found each other thru prayers. I had a bad relationship before, my first boyfriend which my mom hated so much prove himself as my mom described him by cheating on me. Which by the way I also prayed for. You see Bro that relationship was so bad that I started praying like this “Dear lord my whole family hated him so much which makes me so unhappy please do something because if i were to decide i know i can’t stop it so please if he was not for me do something and if he is for me then do a big miracle for him to be liked by my family. If not let me find someone who is for me someone who will make me happy and someone who will make my family happy.” I prayed like that every sunday when we go to the Shire of the Divine Mercy. The lord answered my prayer, my ex-bf admitted that he was cheating on me and that the girl was pregnant and so on. I cried then not for any reason but being glad that it was finally over. After 4 months my bestfriend introduced me to her boyfriend’s bestfriend. The first time we met it was love at first sight and the rest is history. Everything went smoothly as if God were directing a perfect love story movie. My husband, before he met me was also praying at the shrine of the divine mercy to give him someone that he could love for the rest of his life. So when we became engaged we found out about the prayers we were amazed how great god is. I hope I can share more on how in many things during that time God interfere and gave us unexpected blessing but this is long already. We were married in the Shrine of the Divine Mercy and now living happily ever after serving God as a Couples for Christ.
Dear Bo,
On 2004, I prayed for myself with this prayer: “Lord, I need a change in my life. My 2 younger sisters are both married now and my parents live a comfortable life already. I am done with my obligations na. Maybe it’s time for me naman? I’d like to get married but I do not have a boyfriend…”
And so I went on to elaborate what I am looking for. I believe that in asking from God, we have to be specific.
On 2005, I was invited to dinner by an American married to a Filipina. They’re clients that I’ve served. (I’m a Licensed Real Estate Broker). They asked me why I am not married yet and so I explained. Then he said, my wife and I met, through the internet. Why don’t you try this website. And I thought, yeah why not?
To make the story short, (our meeting was a long and funny story) my husband and I met throught that website on Feb. 2005 . By May of that year, he started calling me. By June, he came to the Philippines. And by November of 2005, we got married.
Everything happened so fast but I have no regrets. God answered my prayer and he answered John’s desire as well. He allowed us to meet at a right time and made both of us happy.
Now, our prayer is to have a baby. All in His time.
Thank you very much.
Lea C. Walker
when i was in highschool, i started praying to JESS (that’s how i call JESUS) for the guy of my dream, that someone i would be spending the rest of my life with. i was very particular with the characteristics of the guy ’cause i remembered what my Christian Living teacher told us that, IF WE PRAY, WE HAVE TO BE VERY PARTICULAR AND BE VERY PERSISTENT SO JESUS WILL KNOW VERY WELL WHAT WE’RE ASKING FROM HIM. every night i prayed that JESS make me meet someone who is tall, with sense of humor, someone who is good in one particular sport and has talent in singing and playing one particular instrument. WISMO! JESS introduced me to this guy in our choir! and you know what, JESS just didn’t provide me with this someone who has all the specific characteristics i asked HIM, HE even gave me a BONUS! this guy is true cutie…..and he still is. at this very day, im happily married to this cutie for 15 long years and i always consider him (and i even told him) that he is the BEST GIFT, JESS has given me. and because my husband is a blessing from JESS, i promised HIM that i will be taking care, and will treasure and love my hubby until my last breath.
Hi Bo!
I’m getting married next week to John - my first boyfriend (or man-friend? hehe).
Our story, I believe, is nothing spectacular. Simple in fact. Not much frills. I don’t think we were looking for “the one” at that time.
I was in high school when I met John in the Parish choir I joined. The first time we talked and bonded was a year after I joined, when he taught me how to shoot basketball from the free throw line as we wait for the choir practice to start (we were early that time). Technically, I didn’t find him. He found me, quietly sitting at a corner, waiting for all the members to arrive.
We went out, as friends, because it was so much fun talking to him. Mind you I wasn’t the “bonding type of person”. I was an introvert.. he was an extrovert. I don’t think there’s actually a physical attraction because at that time I didn’t even look good, nor did i look approachable. John on the other hand, looked decent and very friendly. A lot of people enjoyed his company, and I was one of them. As to how it came to be “us”, it’s still a mystery.
I have to say, praying for “the one” never crossed my mind at that time. It just happened. I don’t know if he prayed to meet me. But when it became “us”, we prayed that our love will continue grow and that the holy spirit continue to nourish our love. =) And happy to say, all prayers are answered. We have been together for more than 7 years, in good times and in bad. =)
I thought, maybe this is where God wants me to be so I just went with the flow. The relationship was tough for my parents to accept at first, especially my mom, because we have an age gap (similar to Mary and Joseph when they got married!) hehe… but like they said, true love conquers all - age gaps, trials, and even all fears and tragedies.
I have blogged a summary of how we met and how we grew in love in our wedding website. I don’t know if it’s a story worth publishing, but I guess all stories are worth sharing. =)
http://mywedding.com/johnlovesjaja
hi bro. bo,
im 22 years old and im not afraid to tell that up to this date (haha) i have no boyfriend. during my college days, i hate to have a boyfriend, i mean i want to concentrate on my studies. so, when a guy approached me and tell me how he loves me well,of course (asahan na nila) basted agad. im not a beautiful girl, hindi rin ako pangit. super kulit lang ako and sweet kaya cguro sila na-aatract. anyway, i found my true love in the loving arms of God. trials came in an unexpected time. promise, maybe because nabuhay ako na wala masyadong problema then biglang dumating yung mga bagay na di ko inaasahan.
let me tell you this please. happy ang college life ko, wala akong bagsak, okay lahat ng grades ko. last sem ko na sa college nun and syempre excited sa graduation. yung tipong susuotin ko yung black na toga na may hood na color orange, new dress and new shoes, pero lahat ng yun naposponed kasi bumagsak ako sa isang subject (whaaa, my world seems to be crashed.) but madali ako nakarecover nun and thanks God talaga. another one, bagsak ako sa board exam (that time, gusto ko na mamatay). wala talaga akong silbi. but God save me. Hindi nya ako pinabayaan. He opened my eyes into reality na hindi doon dapat matapos ang life ko. anydan parin yung family ko na nabigo ko man sila, still love parin nila ako at inunawa. dinala ako ni God sa mga tao na palalakasin ang loob ko. and thanks to them. kaya ayun na-inspire ako. hindi ako sumuko. and now im happy kasi yung work ko super saya. mabait ang amo ko (pero sabi nila mataray, thanks God kasi 1 year na ako dito but hindi ko pa siya nakitaan ng pagiging mataray). i truly found my true love kay God, imagine kung hindi ko yun nakita maybe this time super down na ako. the feeling is different that God is with you always, that you always felt His love. and i tell you im happy to seerve Him forever. kahit hindi ako magkaroon ng boyfriend, promise, hindi ako takot kasi true love ni God is the best talaga.
thanks bro.bo, na-ishare ko rin yung love ni God sa akin. i know hindi ito mapipili but im happy kasi you gve us a time na ma-i-share namin ang aming true love.
anyway, may article si bro. arun. blue green yung title. wala lang, ganda po kasi nun,eh. story nyo po dalawa.
A LOVE MADE IN HEAVEN
Mid July 1996 was the time when I came to accept JESUS as my personal LORD & SAVIOR and from that time on I became ADDICTED TO HIM.
Everything I do, I lifted up to Him and asked for His opinion. We became very close, so close that we always talked about our ideas and even feelings. Until last week of July, when for the first time He asked me to give up 3 things. One of these was my 5-year old relationship. Oh boy! It was a very difficult thing to do. I loved my boyfriend so much. I already tried letting go of him for how many times but I still go back to him. I just can’t do it. But because I love JESUS so much and I trusted Him so much that I decided to give it a try. I broke up with my boyfriend, telling him not to see me anymore because it is what GOD wanted me to do.
Few months of enjoying GOD’s company made me strong and I realized that my love for my boyfriend was gone. So, I decided to test my feelings by seeing him again. I attended the choir service just to see him and realized that time – it really happened. My love for him was gone. Still not contented with my experiment – I called him every now and then…then I called him again…and again…and again…until I realized that I was trapped. I fell in love with the same guy again.
I thought GOD was only testing me to give him up just as he tested Abraham to kill his own son. I decided to let him join the renewal so as for us to have a harmonious relationship because we have the same faith. Our relationship went on hiding ourselves from the rest (my parents, friends & relatives) because it would only cause more trouble. Until November 1997, when I decided to be truthful. I announced to them about our hidden relationship. My parents & relatives (though they tried to hide it) were half-hearted in accepting him again. But because they love me and he’s the person I love – they accepted him.
December 1997 – the relationship that I thought would turn out great became much worse than before. We don’t see each other as often as we used to…the sweetness was gone…the only thing that remained is the fear of being hurt again. I began to doubt the relationship so I prayed again and asked for the advice of my friend – JESUS. I told Him that if this is the person He wants me to marry, He will help this relationship. If not, He will find me a suitable partner. Someone who knows Him and understands how much I love Him.
January 14, 1998 – I was working with the band when a sudden feeling of likeness to one of the members came into me. His name is REYDEN T. BATHAN. I panicked that I ran to a closed room and began to pray. I asked the Lord why I felt that way when I am already committed to a guy. I shouldn’t feel that way. Then JESUS answered, “He is your mission.” Those were the exact words so I again asked Him why and He told me that this guy needs love. Again, out of my love for JESUS, I accepted the challenge and told Him that if this man really is my mission and that there’s a need to talk to him, let him come into this room. Right after my prayer, this guy came into the room. My heart pounded very fast. Oh God! This is it. I approached him and tried to ask him personal questions which he openly and willingly answered. There, I realized that he really needs lots of love. We all do, don’t we?
From that time on, I kept on praying for this man until he became the subject to all my prayers. I even woke up in the wee hours just to pray for him. I kept on contacting him through cellphone (it’s our only way of communicating each other ‘coz they don’t have a landline phone) just to check on him because that’s what JESUS wants me to do. So, after days of talking to each other and praying for him, I realized that I was falling for him. Uh-oh!!!
Again, I panicked. I asked God why I have to fall in love with this man. His answer was very simple: “THIS GUY WILL BECOME YOUR HUSBAND.” Hey, I thought GOD wants me to have the best. This guy doesn’t even go to church. But the Lord assured me, “TRUST ME. THIS IS HE. WE ALWAYS TALK.” From that time on, I trusted Him and went along with the flow.
Last week of January, I realized the feelings is mutual (though he tried very hard not to tell me because he might break a long-term relationship). How did I know? Through the songs he played to me over the cellphone (example: IT MIGHT BE YOU; HOW CAN I TELL YOU?; MORE THAN YOU’LL EVER KNOW; etc…). Until January 29, 1998 when I asked him to voice out his feelings which he did. I also let him know how I felt. Still, we didn’t commit to each other. We remained friends – yet a friendship that is full of love. We talked to each other over the cellphone every dawn right after our work for I guess 15-30 minutes. (Magastos no?) I fell more and more in love with him.
One day, he started avoiding me because he’s hurt every time he sees my boyfriend and me together. (My boyfriend visits me every week at the band) From that time on, I realized how much I missed him. Everytime my boyfriend and I went out, my heart and mind was with REYDEN. Gosh, it’s driving me crazy. I was very, very guilty for feeling that way. So guilty that I was able to tell my boyfriend about how I felt towards this guy…and then POW! My boyfriend left me. I cried after that incident…not because of the break-up but because of guilt. I went to the prayer room and cried my heart out. And the thought that I was living in truth gave me peace.
Before I was able to tell REYDEN about the break-up, he was able to tell me the news that he went back to his ex-girlfriend. It was the most painful news I have ever heard in my entire life. I cried a lot. I prayed and GOD gave me His peace.
I talked to REYDEN again the next evening. We had a nice, friendly chitchat and it ended up by he-telling me that I DID NOT LOSE YET. THE GAME HASN’T ENDED YET. That was a hopeful sentence. And as I prayed to GOD, He gave me the same assurance. So I cling to those Words.
Months of painful moments went by…seeing him with his girlfriend…there were also times when he avoided me because he didn’t want to ruin their 10-year old relationship. But each time I tried to go away, he started playing me songs he used to play over my cellphone before…These situations drove me nuts. During those times, my only weapon was prayer. As I prayed to GOD and discerned for His will, His Words were still the same: GO ON, CONTINUE LOVING HIM. Then I remembered the promise He gave me. REYDEN will become my husband…no matter what this situation may tell me. Then, I felt God’s peace. Everytime I worry and ask for God’s guidance, His answer is still the same. GO ON. The Words were very, very strong.
I was able to take each painful night of seeing him but not even touching him nor talking to him but it made me very, very weak. I got tired and decided to take a leave from the band so as to think and pray things over. I thought that was the last page of the book. Little did I know that it was the beginning of VOLUME 2.
Few days of my leave from the band, REYDEN called me at my office asking me why I left. I told him that I need to rest and that I have to pray if I ever go back to the band again or not. He told me to stay. From that time on, he kept on calling me everyday. And that was the beginning of a wonderful love affair. A love story authored by GOD Himself.
January 14, 1999 – I got married to REYDEN. The man who talks to JESUS and loves Him the way I do…who loves me very, very much…who cares for me and whom I get along with so easily…no dull moments. The person whom God chose to be my lifetime partner. And boy! How God used me to bring him back to the church.
This is indeed HIS will. A love made in heaven.
i’ve always believed (even to this day) that we were meant for each other. but i know it was one prayer, said in one of the most disconsolate times of my life, that sealed our fate and led us to each other…my husband knew me first when he read a short story that i wrote in “women’s journal”. he was obsessed with the story thinking it was true to life for 2 years until one night, he finally found the courage to write the magazine’s editor to look for me. his letter was forwarded to me, and ironically, i received it on the very same day that i have decided to prepare myself for solitude. i was 25 years old then. we became pen friends for a short while; then he called me on the phone and on july 4th, 1996 we decided to see each other. there was no instant attraction (at least for me); but after spending a few hours talking to him, it’s like i knew that if ever he would decide to pursue me, i would consider him…but even before we met in person, we both knew that he was leaving for canada. because of that, he decided not to say anything while i waited in vain. our love affair didn’t almost happen because of my impatience. but i think God loved me so much He didn’t allow me to lose the one He has chosen for me. three weeks before he left for canada, we became a couple. i didn’t know where it would lead but i just took the risk thinking there really is nothing much to lose. at the airport he asked me to wait for him and i said “no” quite a few times. i was too scared to put my life on hold for someone again; but i knew in my heart i would be waiting for him all i asked from him was a letter every week. he never failed. in april 1999 he came back to marry me. a year after that i followed him to canada. we’ve been married for more than 9 years now and i have never been happier all my life. he is my perfect match. that is why i always tell my friends to be careful what you pray for because God always gives you exactly what you pray for…he is my true love, my best friend, my forever and one in a million love. i will always be thanking the Lord for giving me this wonderful man i call my husband. by the way, his name is ding. :o)
ps: our love story was published in women’s journal anniversary issue - 26 june 1999 (when two strangers wed)
Kuya Bo,
wow ang daming nakakakilig stories.. gusto ko rin po mag share.. ehehehe coz i think i had found my true love…
Im 24 yrs old now and has been in a relationship for 2 yrs, 11 mos, and 15 days ehehehe.. and planning to get married in 01/11/10 hopefully.. so matagal tagal pa naman.. but then at least may plano hahaha…
Not long ago, when i was on my senior yr at high school when i started longing for a special someone. I was always asking God then why i was alone when i am more beautiful than girl around me ehehehe.. thats what i thought ehehhe.. mas matalino rin naman ako sa iba.. pero nagtataka ako bakit sila may bf ako wala.. So every simbang gabi i remember na laging kasama un sa wishlist ko.. to have somebody whom i can love and can love me in return, someone wise, god fearing, family centered, mature and older than me.. un lang.. wla ko paki kung pangit man, pandak o mataba.. pero kung kamukha ni nick carter o ni johnny depp eehhehe why not.
So blah blah blah, i had my first bf when i was in my 20. But sad to say it lasted for 5 months only.. on and off pa yun.. Naging heart broken din..so balik na naman sa pagppray for the right person.. same prayers pa din at same specifications eheheh.. and then yung God answered… sobrang exact.. god fearing, wise,family centered, mature at older than me..
He was my schoolmate pla in PUP.. i never noticed him for the past 4 yrs in architecture bldg.. nung nag thesis lang kami nagkakilala.. medyo inis nga rin ako sa taong ito kasi mayabang tingnan.. pero nung nakausap ko sya on our first day of talking sa jeep ng minsang nagkasabay kami.. sobrang humanga na ko sa taong ito.. he is a taxi driver din ksi while studying.. pangtustos lang ba.. and soft spoken din pala.. sarap kausap.. In short we became close..
But he had a history pala in our school, babaero daw etc..iwasan ko daw.. pero di naman ako agad nagppadala sa ganun.. pinakausap ko sya sa friends ko para malaman kung seryoso na ba sya sakin kahit nakakailang ung moment na un.. tapos isinali ko sya sa sfc.. after a month naging kami
and now after 2 yrs 11 mos and 15 days.. we are still growing together.. madami nang kabulastugang nangyari sa amin… but then god is truly alive… kahit ang damaing pagkakamaling nagawa… He is forgiving us and patuloy na binibigyan ng panibagong buhay para itama ang mga pagkakamali… and patuloy pa rin kaming hinuhubog para maging buo…. and sa ngayon ang prayers ko plagi is for God to mold us to be right for each other… na makayanan ang imperfection ng bawat isa.. and that may we grow more loving each other and enjoying each others company as we serve other people for the love of Christ..
Thank you for this opportunity Bro. Bo.. youre love story is an inspiration for me too..
i have found my true love in new zealand but i wasnt his one true love….i came to new zealand about a year ago to work as a nurse. i lived in a big house in a great village with 10 other filipinos..time came when others moved to other places and other houses. then out of nowhere, this kiwi guy (their term for new zealanders) came to live with us. he was 23 and i was 24 then. we never understood why he would choose to live with us filipinos. he was kind but had this bad drinking habit and the typical guy who doesnt clean the room and stuff like that. i never took notice of him because i never in my life thought of having a foreigner as a boyfriend.and he found me too good to be true. religious, kind, smart, pretty and in general : a nice girl. my flatmates started noticing a change in him and his trying to spend time with me. then i had a big problem wherein he was the one who comforted me and i fell in love with him. he became my boyfriend but it didnt last long because he cant keep up with the perfect girl. he started drinking again and doing really bad things. i always try to talk to him and just when i thought we were getting back together, he said he made someone his girlfriend. i was so depressed i went home to the philippines for 2 weeks. when i came back, i sent him a txt message (2 weeks after i arrived) and he said he wanted to see me. it is so sad because with that txt he sent me, i wanted him back. i thought i was over him but i wasnt. i couldnt get myself to hate him. we started going out again but it wasnt the same..he is different now and i have accepted the sad truth that we can never be together again…but the best part of it was that….he taught me how to love without conditions. because until now, i still love him. he taught me so much more than that. he taught me to forgive and forget the wrong he has done me. he taught me to be honest with my feelings and he taught me to fight for what i want to fight for love that even if people were against our relationship, i saw the good in him and he saw the good in me and nothing else mattered but our love. i asked him if he really loved me before and he said “yes i did and you already know that. but not anymore,just mates”
i asked God why he would give me someone to love with all my heart and then take him away. it was such a coincidence that he lived here and i know that if he didnt choose to live here, we wouldnt have met. i dont know if i should be glad we did or wish we didnt but all i know is that God made His point clear to me. that there are things that are not meant to be ours for a long time but we learn from them and that’s how much he loves me…saving me from the wrong guy. from my one true love.
Let me share with you a post in my blog:
I just finished listening to the song “You’re Still You” by Josh Groban.
I paused for a moment, stopped what I was doing, listened to the song intently…and reminisced my wedding day….
A voice that sounded as beautiful as Josh Groban’s (at least for me. hehehe!) began to fill the air.
There was I, walking alone the church aisle with my groom singing “You’re Still You” and halfway, he met me.
Together, we faced God and the destiny He had in store for us.
I can still remember that romantic scene so vividly. ***kilig***
It’s been ages that I last heard that song. I’m glad I tuned in to Yahoo Music.
“Your’e Still You” best describes my relationship with Lito before we got married. We were together when we were in college. Then, we parted ways after I did not make it in the board exams on my first take.
We were apart for 5 years. In those years, we had so many attempts of getting back together but did not succeed because we found love in other people.
After all the failed attempts, we met again. Now… both loveless. For us, there wouldn’t be any clearer sign than this. We are each other’s destiny! This time, we decided that we won’t let go of each other again.
“Love is sweeter the second time around.” Yes, it’s true. Maybe because of the “hangop” factor and of the desire to make up for the time wasted.
Our relationships also with other people helped us in becoming better individuals and mature in dealing with our own relationship. Our past short-lived loves prepared us for a love that’s for keeps.
Looking back, I have no regrets that we did not end up with each other much earlier than what we would have wanted.
God really wanted for Manoy and I to meet again when we were already at our BEST and ready for a LIFETIME OF MARRIAGE.
I was a hopeless romantic single lady in 1997 because I kept telling my friends that my prince charming was still in the Sahara dessert and was lost thats why we never met. Well, my ultimate dream was to be a Pink Sister, in fact I am very active in religious activities in our Parish and Vicariate being of those youth leaders. Getting married was not my ultimate goal and I tend not to bother myself about that. Until one day I have to write my last letter to the Pink Sisters I remember I found it difficult to tell them that I am not going to pursue my plan to join their congregation but instead to let the Lord lead me where He wants me most. In October 1997 my friend called me up and asked me for some help on behalf of her male friend that needs counselling and that this friend of hers felt so outcast because he was working in the Middle East for more than 5 years and his friends backhome were nowhere to be found. So I agreed with her. On that night of October 29, 2007 someone called me up and introduced hisself and the story of my true love begins and I forgot of my conviction not to get married. On September 2005 we got married, after 7 years of dating that started from a single phone call. God knows before we ask.
Serendepity is defined as the gift of finding valuable things not sought… Is it possible?
I guess it’s somewhat possible.
My one true love and me first met in the lobby of my present company’s head office. We were both being interviewed that day (October 18, 2001). Being nervous and anxious, we just smiled at each other. All I had in mind was getting the job, he told me later that he somewhat found me interesting.
Anyway, I had to wait for four months before I got the job. Within that four months, I got into a relationship. I thought he was the person I’ve been waiting for. We had great time, we laughed a lot, we were so in love (as i believed it was). Then I got the call, so I had to relocate. In 2002, cellphone is yet to be known in the place where I was assigned. That gave me and my boyfriend the difficulty communicating.
One afternoon in March 2002, I saw Ryan… the guy I met at the lobby! We had a small talk, found out he got in earlier than I did and is with the engineering department. I didn’t give him much attention, but I couldn’t forget his reaction when we met. I believe star struck was the word for it.
One day we rode the same jeepney, I was to visit a friend and I told him he should meet her. She is also single like him. Somebody commented while we were talking that we might end up with each other. I found it very silly, turned out it was what was destined to happpen.
Anyway, my boyfriend that time decided to end our relationship because accordingly he is happier with someone else. I cried loads of tears. My officemates told me to forget the guy, they will just set me up with one of the new employees just like me. Turned out it was Ryan.
We started going out as friends. Turned out one of my officemate was his housemate, so we would hang out together. He was so samrt, sweet and had loads of sense of humor. Then suddenly we felt that friendship wasn’t enough. Two months after I broke up with my ex, we became a couple. And two years after, we got married.
In seven months time, we will be celebrating our 5th wedding anniversary. Five years of wonderful memories and two beautiful kids. I guess true love is not about finding the right person but creating the right relationship. It’s not about how much you have in the beginning but how much love you build till the end.
Serendipity is defined as the gift of finding valuable things not sought… Is it possible?
I guess it’s somewhat possible.
My one true love and me first met in the lobby of my present company’s head office. We were both being interviewed that day (October 18, 2001). Being nervous and anxious, we just smiled at each other. All I had in mind was getting the job, he told me later that he somewhat found me interesting.
Anyway, I had to wait for four months before I got the job. Within that four months, I got into a relationship. I thought he was the person I’ve been waiting for. We had great time, we laughed a lot, we were so in love (as i believed it was). Then I got the call, so I had to relocate. In 2002, cellphone is yet to be known in the place where I was assigned. That gave me and my boyfriend the difficulty communicating.
One afternoon in March 2002, I saw Ryan… the guy I met at the lobby! We had a small talk, found out he got in earlier than I did and is with the engineering department. I didn’t give him much attention, but I couldn’t forget his reaction when we met. I believe star struck was the word for it.
One day we rode the same jeepney, I was to visit a friend and I told him he should meet her. She is also single like him. Somebody commented while we were talking that we might end up with each other. I found it very silly, turned out it was what was destined to happpen.
Anyway, my boyfriend that time decided to end our relationship because accordingly he is happier with someone else. I cried loads of tears. My officemates told me to forget the guy, they will just set me up with one of the new employees just like me. Turned out it was Ryan.
We started going out as friends. Turned out one of my officemate was his housemate, so we would hang out together. He was so samrt, sweet and had loads of sense of humor. Then suddenly we felt that friendship wasn’t enough. Two months after I broke up with my ex, we became a couple. And two years after, we got married.
In seven months time, we will be celebrating our 5th wedding anniversary. Five years of wonderful memories and two beautiful kids. I guess true love is not about finding the right person but creating the right relationship. It’s not about how much you have in the beginning but how much love you build till the end.
such a nice book kuya bo, i hope I can read that book this time eventually right now my boyfriend and i broke up and I think that book can help me to make it through and face again this kind of situation..thank you for the inspiration
It will a big help to ease the pain that I’m feeling right now..