Ever since I’ve had memory I’ve wanted to fall madly in love. I saw my friends getting in and out of love, feeling so happy… but I didn’t have any guy in my life.

Then, about 3 years ago, I fell in a bad place in my life. I had bad depression and I was only 19. My friends stopped understanding me, my Dad died because of alcoholism, and I almost committed suicide. I had lost all my faith in life.

Then one day it all stopped feeling so dark… it all changed. I remember this as if it was yesterday, and it happened out of the blue: I was out walking on the street and I saw this boy, pretty handsome, and I remember seeing him smile at me and staring at me and I couldn’t stop blushing. I remember thinking, why hadn’t I seen him before (I live in a very small town where everybody knows everybody).

The next day and out of the blue a friend of my Mom’s calls me and tells me about her nephew being back in town, and that she was giving him my number so we’d go out. So I hung up and 5 minutes later he calls me. “Hi, this is Leonardo, the nephew. So we should go out on Friday… could I pick you up at 10?” Since I was stunned and didn’t expect this, I said, “Ok… umm, ok. I guess.” Surprise, the cute guy I had seen that day was at the door picking me up on Friday. We went for dinner and talked and talked all night long, and he kept on smiling at me all night long.
He called me, we texted every day, he even brought me chocolates and flowers… and we told each other everything. The bottom line is that we connected on a whole other level. So we started dating. It was amazing. I had never felt that before. I figured it had to be “TRUE LOVE.”

He was studying in Europe, so when he went back we called each other twice a day and talked for hours. We connected in such a powerful way that whenever I thought about him he called me. He came back and we spent every hour of the day together. It was amazing, we could not get enough of each other. I always said he was my man… but everyone around me talked me into the theory that you don’t end up with your first love. Anyway, we even traveled together to the beach and Disney world.

Then I went to study in the States – so that we’d be closer. But it actually drove us apart. I started thinking he didn’t miss me and that he didn’t love me, and I drove him away thinking that he’d had another girl there. We broke up.

Since then I’ve dated other guys, but somehow every time I’m about to forget him something happens… we talk, I listen to our song on the radio (which isn’t popular at all), or his family meets up with me (they’ve always liked me, they’ve told me that I’ve been the best girlfriend he’s ever had, and that we have a great and bright future together, because he still loves me!)… so it’s been impossible to get him out of my head with all those signs. Another sign is that there are a few stories that connect us even when we didn’t know about each other at that time. Stories like: an aunt of mine who died of cancer had hit him with her car when he was on his bike, and he realized it after looking at one of my pictures years later, when we couldn’t ask my aunt. Also he went to the same school I did… and so on. Although the most important SIGN is that whenever I remember what we had I feel this amazing feeling of love and tickles and abundance and joy, and I can’t stop smiling… even though we’re apart. I know with all my heart we’re meant to be together, and I know that whenever I’m ready and he’s ready, then the Universe will work it and bring us together. I just know it.

So in the meantime I’m getting my life like I want it to be, THANKS TO THE SECRET OF COURSE. I got a scholarship for the university, I got a great job (I have been promoted twice since January), I have a great family and the best friends a girl could ever wish for, and I got my health back (I stopped taking pills and am more athletic than I’ve ever been).

I’ve read almost all of the stories on this page. They inspire me to hold on, to have faith, and never give up… Thank you for sharing your stories and thank you Rhonda for summing up all this great knowledge that changed so many lives so far.