Love In A Small Town is a Patch column that features voices from your neighborhood as well as ones from communities across the country on topics ranging from marriage to first dates. Get ready to get all the feels.
A couple went on their first date at this restaurant 23 years ago. Every year since then, they've celebrated at the same special table.
“Meeting him at the front doors and seeing his smiling face in the reflection of the twinkling lights made my heart flutter.”
A couple hid a time capsule in the iconic Waldorf Astoria hotel on their anniversary. Here's how they got it back 10 years later.
"To think that out of all the places I’ve lived in our great nation, true love was right in my backyard all along."
"Sometimes we see other people in our chairs on their first dates and we smile, because we know what can happen!"
"We've done numerous other hikes together and with our kids, but Tourne Park remains our favorite."
"Every time we ride out together, I get the same feeling I did on that first ride, the one all those couples got."
"I had never been lucky in love, but for some reason I had a good feeling about this girl."
Though it was only love at first sight for one of them, this couple’s love has only grown stronger over their 33 years of marriage.
“Love is a verb, an action that you use as a way to express to your person every single day.”
“The love they have shown me, even when I am not at my best, is the greatest gift I have ever known.“
This Sarasota man is excited to grow “white haired and wrinkled” with his college sweetheart.
An Alpharetta man writes a Valentine’s Day haiku to his wife.
“I like to think that the joys we experience are made that much sweeter by the difficulties we've faced.”
“I love you even more now, through all the hard times and the best.”
This is one woman’s ode to her loving husband.
A man found out his girlfriend needed brain surgery after just four weeks of dating her, and he hasn’t left her side since.
One grandmother has a very special message for her grandson on Valentine’s Day.
“With a lot of effort, trust and determination at young ages, they made it work and have never looked back.”
A Buffalo Grove man writes a poem for his wife on Valentine’s Day.
