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

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LimeLife has been publishing beautiful old love letters. They make us nostalgic for days we never knew—but glad that we have texting and video chat. Here's one from Ernest Hemingway. [LimeLife]

Do men like to be romanced? Discuss. [DivineCaroline]

10 things divorced women can love about Valentine's Day. [First Wives World]

Tough times calls for tough cut backs. According to The Wealth Report, a new survey shows that more than 80% of multimillionaires who had extramarital affairs plan to cut back on gifts and allowances for their lovers. 12% of the cheating multimillionaires polled said they plan to give up on their lovers altogether for financial reasons. Sounds like good news for wives of multimillionaires!

Yesterday, Match.com reported that its members have officially exchanged over one billion winks, according the WSJ’s Market Watch. (Winks are used to flirt virtually without resorting to formal e-mail introduction. Read more … Read More

As we approach the 2008 presidential election, we're naturally inquisitive about our future leader: his standpoint on the economy, his views on foreign policy and his choice of running mate. Many are also curious to know what his relationship with his wife (or potential other woman) is like. The secret love lives of our presidents are not only indicators of their character, but they can shape our values about sex and relationships as a nation. What's gone on behind closed doors at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue? Let's take a peek:

Door #1: Passionate Love Affairs

Politics tends to breed … Read More

Cycling is hot right now: as a sport, an eco-friendly mode of transportation, and as a means of delivering an endangered species of communication: the love letter.

Pink: a (love) courier service sets up temporary "love letter" factories in cities around the US (it's been offered in Austin, Portland and Chicago so far), offering citizens the chance to type out words of adoration on actual typewriters. In-house poets are on-hand if inspiration is needed, then the letters are sealed in little glass bottles and delivered to your husband, lover, secret crush, favorite blogger, or whomever else your … Read More

What's your biggest regret?

In high school, I kissed a guy who wasn't my boyfriend. I never really had a shot with the guy, but he wrote me some great, very romantic emails. Like letters, you could say. And my boyfriend at the time made me delete all of them.

That was seven years ago and I still wish I had them. And even though it's probably wrong, I think erasing those emails forever from my AOL account is one of my biggest regrets.

Folk singer Chris Blake also a little wistful, so he Googled "my biggest regret" and posted what he … Read More

According to CNN, about 20 percent of American couples are in a “sexless” marriage, which therapists define as having sex approximately less than 10 times a year.

While this shouldn’t be surprising information to us, as Americans recently ranked third to last on the lovemaking frequency scale... it still is.

Problems in the bedroom often mirror those outside of it, but sickness, children or simply low sex drive in both partners could also account for this sort of dry spell. The therapists that CNN interviewed stressed that infrequent lovemaking is only a problem if … Read More

From naughty thoughts scribbled on an airplane barf bag to a Vietnam soldier’s emotional letter home to his wife and baby, the notes collected in Other People’s Love Letters: 150 Letters You Were Never Meant to See (Clarkson Potter) offer a glimpse into intensely personal expressions of love, lust, and loss.

We asked former Life magazine editor Bill Shapiro, who started the project after peeking at a girlfriend’s love letter from an ex, what he got out of asking other besotted scribes to share their juicy words with the world.

Q: What did you learn from reading thousands of … Read More