The Sad Love Story is Back!

It has been a long time since I last posted on this Sad Love Story Faraway Place blog. Well, I am back. Am I back to tell you about my love story that ends with a happy ending? No, not yet. That is still in the works. Yes, I am still on the search for love. True love, and I will not settle until I find it. And none of you should settle either. Never settle! Wait for true love. This post is not really supposed to be about my love story though. I was going to talk about what I am going to do with this blog now. Well, perhaps there is enough time to talk a little about both.

If you haven’t read my Sad Love Story post from about a year ago, then you may want to read it. Or you can just move forward with me. I have lots of hope of finding true love very soon in fact, but all good things come in good time. Patience is key, which I have to keep reminding myself. I think this summer is going to be a great summer of love. I am still on all of the dating sites. I have found a few more to join as well, which I don’t think I am going to mention here. Let’s just say there are tons of dating sites out there. Dating sites that are geared towards people who enjoy specific hobbies or whatnot.

I changed my default picture the other day and low and behold I have received about a hundred emails over a couple of days! Now, I had the one picture in my profile of pictures. All I did was make it my default picture. This picture is not a scandalous picture either. Okay, it is one of those mirror pictures that so many people don’t like. (Why do so many people dislike those pics anyway? I don’t care if a person shows some skin. If they want to flaunt it, I like to look! haha:) But I took the picture from the waist up and I am wearing a tight shirt that covers everything, it is tight though. Anyway, the point is, if you want to attract a lover, make sure your pictures are up to par. And please put up as many pictures as you can. One picture only says you are trying to hide something.

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Anyway, I am so happy things in the love department are looking bright. We will see what happens. Perhaps next time I will post a happy love story, not a sad one. I have been talking a lot to this one guy on the phone and on Skype. He lives out of state though, yes I know, I know. But we have so much in common and he is funny! We will see...

The Future of The Sad Love Story Faraway Place

Back to the depressing love story blog. I have been thinking about trying to write some short tear jerker love stories as ebooks. I have always loved reading romantic stories my whole life. I have written a romantic vampire novel, but it never got past the editing stage. It is now being used to hold up my bed. Well, after all my past relationship woes something has to hold up my bed...j/k. So I was thinking I might try my hand a short stories. I may post some here and would really appreciate it if you would give me some feedback. Now, I just need a kick in the butt to actually start writing and stop dreaming.

I was also thinking I might read and review some great sad romantic stories. Of course, I love romantic vampire novels, but I will try to review some short love stories of all genres instead. Please, let me know of any love stories that are your favorites. I would love to read them and post about them. Until the next sad love story, farewell.

My Sad Love Story

I am searching for love right now. I believe in true love still. I know some people don’t. Some people settle for second best. Not me. I am not going to settle and you shouldn’t either. In order to find my true love, I have to endure the stormy dating waters. I have had my share of bad dates and sad love stories, believe me. And I know we all have experienced some crazy ones. We have to keep fighting though. Fighting through all the bad to find the good. I know “the one” is out there somewhere and I will not rest until I find him.

Do you want to hear my sad love story that is going on right now in my love life? Well, it is really several stories all combined into one.

Let’s see where should I start? Should I start with my very first boyfriend that I had in first grade? (I went up to him) See I have been boy crazy for a long time. No, that is going too far back. I am not really that boy crazy though, I don’t have to have a boyfriend. I have gone around 2 years without even dating at all, I just focused on myself, my work, and family. However, I do want a boyfriend. With my work, I am never around anyone of the opposite sex, so there goes that avenue. I always try to keep my eyes open when I go out shopping. I find that I am usually the one that has to initiate the contact though, I don’t know why. I think some guys are a lot more shy nowadays, than in the past. Perhaps, it is all of that sexual harassment issues still haunting them, even when they are not at work. Or even all the feminism that is going around, where men hardly go up to women anymore. I don’t know, perhaps it is just me, I have been told I am very attractive though. What do you think? Do men just go up to women and try to sweep them off their feet like they did in the old days?

Anyway, back to the present. Back to my heartrending love story. So in order to find true love, I thought I would try an adventure with the online dating sites. I am on practically every dating site right now. I have tried the free ones, and the ones you pay for. Now, I have tried online dating in the past. I was definitely one of the first to try it out of my friends. Over the years that my profile has existed on dating sites, I have had some good dates, but most of them didn’t last past the first couple dates. But when I was in college, I ended up meeting men though friends of friends anyway, at one of their parties. Now that I am out of college I am finding it harder to meet guys. So I have recently been going on a ton of dates, from dating sites. It is a numbers game after all, just like anything else, isn’t it? I figure if I can go on X many dates, then I am bound to find true love. Well, I am not filling that X with a number. I must admit, that I thought I would have found him after this many dates by now, but I haven’t, so I am not putting a number on it. It takes how many dates to find true love? It doesn’t matter, as long as I keep trying, don’t settle, and find him one day!

Now, I am sure some of you may think that I am too picky and that is why I haven’t found a boyfriend yet. Well, I do admit I have my standards and so should you. It goes along with not settling. However, I have also just had some really bad luck, but I will not give up. All it takes is some determination and a little luck, again as with anything else. Well, this post is getting longer than I thought. Now, it is time for the juicy stuff too. This sad romantic story is finally going to get good. Except now, I am having second thoughts about how far I should go into the story. How many details do you want? Well, I will give you a few. Let’s just say that I have had men steal my cash and credit card right out of my wallet! Plus, I had one guy steal my camera, but he wasn’t from internet dating, he was from speed dating! Yes, I did speed dating, and it was really fun, it is not the company’s fault that I met a bad apple and it is not my fault either. I would totally go speed dating again and you should try it too. There are just a lot of bad guys out there. I know the economy is going through bad times, right now, but come on, stealing from your date? They didn’t steal very much from me, it is just the fact that they are thieves!

Of course, I have had the regular bad dating stories as well. Where, the guy says he will call and then never calls. It’s weird isn’t it? You can have the best date ever with a guy. You like everything about him and he seems to like you. He gives you lots of compliments and he talks about other things he wants to do with you in the future. He tells you, that he will call, but then never does! What the hell is that? Why say you are going to call and then never call?

Then of course there is the one night stand man. What is with some guys? A lot of them don’t even want to buy you a cup of coffee anymore. They just want you to come straight to their house to watch a movie! Yeah right! The first rule of internet dating is: always meet at a public place! The other night, the guy was offended that I didn’t want to just drive straight over to his place. His place too, not even my place, he didn’t even want to drive? Can we say lazy! He was like, “What you don’t want to come over, but I just cleaned up my place, I can’t believe you are serious.” Yeah, I am serious. Do not meet someone for the first time at their house. You never know if a guy will rape and kill you. Yes, they may sound like a great guy on the phone, but you never know! And please guys, get off your butts and meet the lady for some coffee or a drink. How hard is that? Yeah, I know you just want to cuddle of have sex on the first date, but at least buy her some coffee first! You may be able to tell, but I didn’t meet the guy the other night. I told him no, only public places. He said he understood, but then he never suggested a place. Oh well, his lost. And the weird thing is, he marked that he was looking for a long-term relationship. He even asked me on the phone if I was looking for the same thing as well, and I said yeah, and he said good. So I don’t know, but I think having sex on the first date, especially before even coffee, is a bit too fast. I like to go a little slower in my relationships. I have had several men ask me to just come over to their house or if they could just come over to my place as well. He is not the only one, it seems to be a trend. I think these ones may have been lying about the long-term thing and they just want to get laid. Weird that they don’t want to get laid for the long-term....hehe, but whatever…

Anyway, this post is now really a rant, not a sad romantic story. Sorry about that. I would love to hear your comments and rants as well. I will post a real heartbreaking love story in the future. I just have to find a man first. I need to find a boyfriend first, I need to be in a serious long-term relationship first right. That way I can give you a truly sad story. Wait, scratch that. Once I find my man, I will not have anymore heartbreaking love stories, because I will truly be in love. I will not give up the internet dating either. I hope all of you know this really was NOT a post to bash internet dating. I love internet dating! I believe there are jerks and fantastic guys everywhere you go. I will not give up and I will find “the one” for me. One day I will find the one who will be waiting for me at the end of the aisle. I will be enjoying a new journey full of love one day with my special someone, and then I will just enjoy reading other people’s stories and watching the sad love movies on the big screen. Good luck to you all in your search for love!

How to Write a Sad Love Story

Have you always dreamed of writing a sad love story? You can write a whole story from beginning to end. You can write a short story or a whole novel. Believe in yourself and just start writing. Make a deadline and meet it, that’s all it takes. Make a word count goal and stick to it everyday. Here are a few tips to get you thinking about how to write your very own story.

The Plot: To create a heartbreaking love story the initial information about the story is important. The beginning is important. When you create anything, you need a solid start to it, so that you have something good to build on. The most enjoyable stories are those that bring out emotions in your readers. If the initial part of the story brings out the happiness of the story, then this will allow you to create the sad ending. Don’t worry too much about how you will get from point A to point B. Just start writing, ideas will come to you as you write. Knowing a general plot is all you need, such as girl meets boy. Boy looses girl and so on…

Creating mood: A key to any sad romantic story, is to create a mood of happiness and joy. You want to make the initial mood as peaceful, happy, and a place that someone would enjoy being. It can be in a physically peaceful and beautiful place, or in a beautiful situation that brings great joy. Try to put a certain mood or conflict on every page. Keep the readers turning those pages, so they cannot wait to see what happens next.

Creating characters you care about: You must make the main players someone that most people would enjoy knowing. When you care about the characters involved in a heartrending love story, you start to appreciate their feelings and their situation. You must also make them people that we see in everyday life so that we all can relate to them. Create strengths and weaknesses in the characters personalities or emotions, that in the future may be used to help create the problems which lie ahead. Give readers a hero or heroine they can relate to, but make them human as well. No one is perfect. Make your bad guys have a motive as well, besides just being crazy.

The first meeting: The next important thing to do is to make the first meeting of the characters real. We all can remember our first meeting with those that we know well, and it is important to make it as real as possible. It will allow the reader to appreciate the meeting as one that happens in everyday in life. Show the love that ignites around the characters. Describe how the characters are feeling when they first meet. Describe how their surroundings affect them.

The relationship: Now it is important for the writer to make the relationship grow into something special. This can be very enjoyable for many writers because you can use your thoughts to make emotional bonds between the characters. Remember that the more you make the subjects care about one another, the more tear jerking love story you will have.

The reasons that make the sad love story: Now that you have a happy story that seems to be going well, you need to create a situation that is too difficult for the couple to overcome. The two major reasons a couple ends their relationship are being unfaithful, or the pressures of dealing with bad money situations. These two problems are used many times in sad love stories. You can also include situations like illness, mental or emotional problems, or even misunderstandings that can not be solved due to a lack of communication. Create a major conflict and a whole bunch of little conflicts, both internal and external, in order to keep the story moving.

The final chapter: It is important now to create a final situation in which the couple cannot overcome their problems. Make sure that you show the emotions of each character and the sadness it brings. Write about their reactions to the problem and show how it affects each character. This will allow your readers to feel the pain of this couple, and will allow them to feel bad for them because of the connection they have with the characters in the story.

The most important thing is to have fun writing your story. Just keep on writing. Remember that this is just a first draft. Nobody’s first draft is 100% ready to be publish. So have fun writing, even if you think it is crap, just keep writing. Write everyday, even if it is just one sentence. Keep writing in order to keep the momentum going. Create characters you love. Give them sexy or wacky personality traits. Create conflict on every page and make you story heartbreaking. Believe in yourself and know that you can write an amazing sad love story!

Reasons People Relate To A Sad Love Story

Why is it that most human beings can relate to a sad love story? Well, there are many reasons, of course, but here are just a few for you to mull over:

It can be easily said that most humans crave love. People are born to give and receive love, and in fact, love is said to be the emotion responsible for most of the things that people do and say. And, unless you are one of those rare people who don't feel anything at all, you can probably relate to needing the connection in your life, as well.

Most people can easily relate to a sad romantic story that was supposed to last forever, but it didn’t, instead it ended badly. Most of us have experienced the same type of heartbreak others experience, at least once in our lives, if not more. So when a person hears about a tragic ending to a love story - or sees a sad love movie - she automatically makes a connection with the person, or actor, she most relates to in regard to her own experience. This also helps a person see that broken hearts are common to most, and helps her to realize she is not alone, she hasn't been singled out for punishment. Bad things happen to us all, we just have to keep moving on. Have hope that one day your story will have a happily ever after.

Misery Loves Company with a Sad Love Story

A heartbreaking love story can opens a person's eyes to see that she's in "good" company when she watches another go through something she has gone through in her own life, especially if the other person's circumstances are worse than her own were. This may seem like a cruel and cold-hearted way for someone to make a connection, but in essence, it helps that person to laugh it off and stop feeling bad about her own life, as she now learns to count her blessings. Life is too short to feel sad for very long. Think about all the good relationships you will have in the future. Think about how you are a stronger person. Know that good will come of this.

A perfect love life all the time makes for boring conversation. It's also a fact that if all the love relationships in the world went off without a hitch, no one would ever want to hear about them - or pay to watch movies about them, either. However, those love affairs that turn out to be train-wrecks are fascinating to everyone - especially if the storyline has to do with love that has become suddenly "unrequited" for no apparent reason, or those in which a third party has become involved. And, look at it this way - without sad love stories, which turn sour, there would be no more need for those popular sad love songs that are such a hit with most people.

So now you know a few of the reasons most people can relate to a sad love story. Whether or not they have noble intentions of being sympathetic by their interest, the fact remains that sadness in love seems to hold a strong attraction for the masses. Many people use them as a great way to cope over their own relationship breakups. They can be a good way to let it all out and then to get your mind off of yourself. There is always someone who had worse relationship stories than you. Love is hard to find, but if it wasn’t, life might be too boring. So lets be happy regardless of what happens and know that one day we will find true love.

The Five Best Sad Love Story Movies

Whether it is star-crossed lovers, unrequited love or any other sort of tragic romance, sad love story movies have the power to touch their viewers. Sometimes people want to watch sad movies for therapeutic reasons. It can feel good to watch a movie and have a good cry. Sad love movies are perfect for sleepovers and girl's nights in. Sometimes a sad love story is just what is called for. So, which are the top five best sad love stories?

Bridges of Madison County. This film is based on the 1992 novel of the same name by Robert James Waller. It was adapted for the big screen in 1995 and starred Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood. It is a very sad story about a repressed housewife who falls for a traveling photographer while he is on holiday. The film deals with the time they spend together and the tragic ending to their love story. It is a definite tear jerking love story.

Titanic. Titanic is the highest grossing film of all time. However, it wasn't just for the big budget or the amazing special effects. Everyone was amazed by the scenes of the Titanic sinking, but what really tugged the audience's heartstrings was the love story of Jack and Rose. She was a high society girl on the top deck, and he was a penniless artist on the bottom deck. This bittersweet movie had to inevitably end in tragedy. It is one of the saddest love movies in modern cinema.

The Notebook. The Notebook is based on the Nicholas Spark's novel of the same name. It tells a cross-generational sad love story about a couple who find and lose each other. It starred real-life couple Rachael McAdams and Ryan Gosling and they were applauded for having great on-screen chemistry. This is a really sad movie. If you watch it, make sure you have a pile of tissues nearby.

A Walk to Remember. Also based on a Nicholas Sparks novels, A Walk To Remember stars pop star Mandy Moore in her first big screen role. She plays a shy and reserved girl who falls in love with a popular guy from her high school. It is a story about what happens when two social worlds come into contact, and it has a very sad third act.

P. S. I Love You. Shot in beautiful Ireland and staring Hilary Swank and Gerard Butler in the lead roles, P. S. I Love You is a heartbreaking love story that will have almost anyone in tears by the end. It is a story about how love survives after death, and one the most sad love movies of the past decade.

Of course there are hundreds of others sad love movies which have been made. Most Nicholas Spark's novels are big tearjerkers. And there are classics like Beaches, Love Story and Romeo and Juliet. But the films listed here are certainly some of the most truly sad love stories.