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Jerry Orbach was a tough guy on TV, but off-screen he wrote love letters and poems for his wife.
The late Jerry Orbach might be best remembered for roles such as tough New York detective Lennie Briscoe on Law & Order or the man who tries to put Baby in a corner in Dirty Dancing, but who knew that he was such a romantic?
Over the course of their 25-year relationship, Jerry wrote love poems to his wife Elaine (pictured with him). Now they're compiled in Remember How I Love You: Love Letters From an Extraordinary Marriage. Lemondrop: 107-Year-Old Woman Contemplating 23rd Marriage
Jerry would leave the short-but-sweet notes next to her coffee cup so that she'd have … Read More
A love letter found 10 years after it was written leads a couple to reunite and marry.
Like a plot ripped straight from a Nicholas Sparks novel, the BBC reports that a UK man finally married his ex-fiancee after a lost love letter he wrote to her 10 years ago was recently discovered behind a fireplace in her mother's villa.
Steve Smith met Carmen Ruiz-Perez in 1993 when the pair was both 25 and she was an Spanish exchange student living in Devon, England.
The two were briefly engaged, but the relationship fell apart after Ruiz-Perez moved to Paris to run a boutique.
Five years later, in 1998, Smith located the address of Ruiz-Perez's mother in Spain … Read More
Advice for how to deal with a boyfriend turned tortured poet.
Love is a many-splendored thing. In fact, it's so splendored that people have been talking about it for millennia and still feel they have new and more poetic things to say about it. Sadly, this is rarely the case.Dear Dr. Dude: So, I have a confession. My boyfriend wrote me a poem to express his feelings, and it was the worst thing I've ever read. Seriously, it was so bad that when I read it I almost laughed and puked at the same time. It sounded like a 3 year-old immigrant with ADD and dyslexia who was forced … Read More
Low-cost weddings redefined when crafty young couple gets hitched in fast food chain.
When it comes to wedding costs, many a bride-to-be knows that the venue can eat up a large chunk of the budget.
To save money and "stress," a couple of lovebirds in Illinois decided to marry in their local Taco Bell. The unique location was "appropriate" for the couple's "offbeat relationship," according to the groom, Paul Brooks, 30. Not only did the pair already share a last name, Paul and his Australian-born bride Caragh Brooks, 21, lived on different continents when they met on an online dating site and began a nine-month long distance courtship, according to the Daily Mail.
Many … Read More
The male selfish gene, forbidden love and food-fighting.
Love and relationship coverage has all but come to a hault today, since Madge is taking center stage. Today's the day for Madonna and Guy Ritchie's official divorce, according to the Associated Press. Read more about their relationship in YourTango's Celebrity Love Blog.
Madge's divorce isn't the only order of the courts today. GoErie.com reports that police charged a 19-year old man in Florida with domestic battery after he threw a sandwich at his girlfriend while she was driving, nearly causing her to loose control of the car. A conviction may clarify that food-fighting … Read More
