19/52 GR Masters: “Do you love me?” Tevye and Golde

19/52 GR Masters: “Do you love me?” Tevye and Golde

In the play Fiddler on the Roof, Tevye, a Russian Jew steeped in tradition, is struggling with accepting his daughter’s modern notion of romance and marrying the one you love. He and his wife, Golde, had a traditional arranged marriage where practicality, not love, was not the primary consideration. Tevye, though, begins to wonder if, after all these years, his wife loves him…?

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16/52 GR Masters: Glenn & Helen Miller

16/52 GR Masters: Glenn & Helen Miller

Just re-watched one of my fav GREAT Relationship couples in the movie The Glenn Miller Story (starring Jimmy Stewart and June Allyson). If you haven't seen it I highly recommend it. It's the true story of the innovative and most popular musician of the late 30s/early 40s (big band/swing). Several of his most popular songs were love songs to his wife and sweetheart Helen, with a very meaningful story behind each song: String of Pearls, Pennsylvania 6500, and Little Brown Jug.

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15/52 GR Masters: Stephen Colbert's answer to "What friendship has impacted you the most?"

15/52 GR Masters: Stephen Colbert's answer to "What friendship has impacted you the most?"

Stephen Colbert and Evelyn "Evie" McGee-Colbert have been married since 1993. This is what he had to say when John Oliver asked him, “What friendship have you had which has impacted you the most?” His answer is sincere and poignant. When one values their partner this much, you can imagine the pains he gladly takes to treat her well and protect their relationship.

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14/52 GR Masters: Star Wars Love... Mark & Marilou Hamill: Married 45 Years and Counting...

14/52 GR Masters: Star Wars Love... Mark & Marilou Hamill: Married 45 Years and Counting...

Mark Hamill is just cool all-around. We all know this... What few know, though, is that Mark Hamill has been married to the same woman, Marilou, for thirty-seven years. And relationships that make it, and make it well, over the long-haul are really cool! And are especially rare in Hollywood. Read the full story here...

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9/52 GR Masters: Love & Romance Don't Fade with Age

9/52 GR Masters: Love & Romance Don't Fade with Age

A college dorm mate of mine, Aldo Edwards, shared the following lovely moment where he witnessed two GREAT Relationship Masters in action:

"I saw an ancient fellow, bent over with age, shuffle slowly, S-L-O-W-L-Y around his table 

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8/52 GR Masters: What Does 50 Years of Love Look Like?

8/52 GR Masters: What Does 50 Years of Love Look Like?

I've had so many young people talk to me who are afraid of marriage... because how could love really last a lifetime, especially when so many have seen so few great examples of marriage, if they've even seen any at all? As in anything great in life we must study the masters. Stop studying the marriage idiots, folks. Study those who know what they are doing. Here's one example of what love really looks like over the long haul.

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7/52 GR Masters: Husband Sees His Wife for the First Time Again

7/52 GR Masters: Husband Sees His Wife for the First Time Again

You need to see this video as this this young husband wakes up groggily from anesthesia after yet another surgery to find to his great surprise that he's married to "the prettiest woman I’ve ever seen. Are you a model?" He's further surprised and overjoyed to learn that she is his wife!

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6/52 GR Masters: Real Love Looks Like This

6/52 GR Masters: Real Love Looks Like This

In his book Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery, Richard Selzer recounts this incredible exchange between a lover and his beloved: I stand by the bed where a young woman lies, her face postoperative, her mouth twisted in palsy, clownish. A tiny twig of the facial nerve, the one to the muscles of her mouth has been severed. She will be thus from now on. 

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4/52 GR Masters: Kristian made this birthday video for his wife before he died from cancer

4/52 GR Masters: Kristian made this birthday video for his wife before he died from cancer

Not too shabby this... Kristian Anderson made this birthday video for his wife Rachel before he died of cancer. It went viral as did their story. I'll let the vids tell their story better than I can... 

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2/52 GR Masters: An Evening at the Waldorf

2/52 GR Masters: An Evening at the Waldorf

One rainy October evening, thirty years ago, I sat in my room at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, staring at a navigation lesson and thinking of Jean. I had met her the previous August in Chicago, just before my summer leave expired, and I had fallen in love with her. Three days later I was back in Annapolis, surrounded by rules and regulations, while she was a thousand miles away, surrounded by eligible bachelors. Things looked bleak indeed.

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