a romantic IR love story that only happen on TV

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Funny you say that because one of my neighbors saw me with no shirt on recently and her flirting has been non-stop. She's always trying to get me to come over when she's having a party. Hell last month she brought me a few martini's and some pizza rolls over. Damn things were pretty good but I ignore her advancements and just keep it on a friendly level.

 

Good article, great story.:smt023

 

Man its xmas. Why don't you break her off a little something lol

 

This is good stuff. Glad to see IR couples are moving more into the norm for the general populace.

 

Exactly!

 

Maybe we are slowly moving that way, but clearly we are NOT there yet as evidenced by a story about this couple. Their story is not extraordinarily romantic. It is very sweet. (But so is my love story and it's lasted way longer and produced three of the most beautiful people ever in the world. *sniff*) The only reason we are reading about it is because they are an interracial couple. That's still something to talk about--interracial couple still have big odds to overcome.

 

Yes, we're reading about it because it is someting we can relate to. It is a hope we have that such relationships become so normalized that they can be mentioned like any other boring, exciting or mediocre couple that are often in a newspaper headlines. It's nice to see people just being able to be people. Sure, there was no story about how he saw her 8 years ago, only to be reunited with her later in life or blah blah blah. It is the thought that they got together as plain as Jane. No big hooplah, or dividing factors. A man asked out a woman and now there they are tying the knot, just like anyone else. And if anything I think this is great journalism, for taking the risk that some people black, white or who ever may not like this article, not because they believe it was lazy journalism, but because for the difference in skin color of the two people getting married.

 

So it would be better to NOT write the story?? I don't get where y'all are coming from. Newspapers write stories about every day couples all the time in the marriage section... The stories don't have to be unique or special, they're just love stories. The fact that this story doesn't make a big deal about it being IR is a step in the right direction.

 

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But their races were mentioned. Why?

A few years ago my husband's uncle, who is a sports reporter at one of the largest newspapers in our state, asked if we would do an interview with a fellow reporter about being in an interracial marriage. We declined. We do have a wonderful love story, our life is amazing, we live way outside of the box in many interesting ways but if we want anything we do to be normalized we can't keep talking about how normal we are despite our interracial relationship. We are two people who fell in love, got married and are living the American dream and it has not a damn thing to do with the color of our skin.

 

But.... their races weren't mentioned?? Isn't their story doing exactly what you're saying is ideal? A love story based on its merit rather than its IR nature?

 

There was a minor mention of it but it wasn't the overall theme for once thank God. I don't see how everyone can't see this as a win for our side.

 

Their races were mentioned. Briefly, but it was there.

 

Dude you and Whik are so on the money with your posts. I don't know what others were dying to see? The Notebook IR Edition? Write a script and find the funding then get it made then.

 

It's not a loss, but why did their race have to be mentioned? Especially if there were no issues surrounding the interracial relationship?

 

I had to read the story 4 times before I even noticed the mention... If it was mentioned in the opening paragraphs I might see where you're coming from, but it was hardly a focal point.

 

I think it was slightly mentioned because the journalist was honest with the way that people view things. Even though I want everyone to see a man and woman most often times they won't. All and all the article was well done for what it was.

 

I agree. It was a more btw thing. I think it's a nice story. Our paper does a lot like these and no they aren't stories with headline grabbing power but just sweet human interest stories.

 

Every Sunday there is a page in the Style section of the Post called On Love. On that page are usually two or three relationship/marriage stories and an article on some aspect of dating, relationships, marriage or being single. As I understand it, the relationship/marriage stories are submitted by the public.

The relationship/marriage stories I have read on the On Love page have really run the gamut. Gay couples, interracial couples, little people and average sized people, lesbians, older folks, long-distance relationships etc. The Post is quite liberal so I'm sure the variety of couples and relationships is intentional. Personally, although I don't read all of the stories all of the time, I think it's nice to see the variety of relationship success stories.