Real attraction is necessary and normal

Jonne & David

David isn’t at all apologetic about what first attracted him to the dark-haired Dutch nurse: her beauty.

“It may not sound so spiritual,” he says, “but a real attraction is necessary and normal.” Jonne, in turn, was impressed with this tall, blond sailor from Sweden.

Read the rest of their story at Boundless:
Cross-Culture Marriage

When you hear a love story it is the description of something that happened, not a prescription of how to make that very same thing happen in your own life.

(Natasha Metzler in "How to Read Love Stories")