Have any forum members started their relationship on the Cam

[Telluridewalker]

Just curious how often love strikes on the Camino...

 

[JohnnieWalker]

Yes - I fell in love with Santiago!

 

[Stephen Nicholls]

There is a saying that you will fall in love on the Camino.
I did - with Lisa - a girl from Germany. But my wife disapproved
However, we still keep in touch by e-mail, though we know we will never meet again....all part of the Camino experience!
Stephen
http://www.calig.co.uk/camino_de_santiago.htm

 

[miguel_gp]

No, but there is a chance I could end some in June! Walking with wife, 2 x sister-in-law, brother-in-law, mother-in-law and father-in-law. :shock:

Johnnie, any chance of a stiff drink in the Pilgrims' Office on arrival?

 

[JohnnieWalker]

Walking with wife, 2 x sister-in-law, brother-in-law, mother-in-law and father-in-law. :shock:

Walking with all of them you'll get a stiff drink, a gold embossed Compostela and you can sit on the Botafumeiro as it flies at the Pilgrims' Mass.

 

[CaminoGen]

Walking with wife, 2 x sister-in-law, brother-in-law, mother-in-law and father-in-law. :shock:

Walking with all of them you'll get a stiff drink, a gold embossed Compostela and you can sit on the Botafumeiro as it flies at the Pilgrims' Mass.

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Thank you for the laughs...

You may or may not fall in love on the Camino but you certainly fall in love with the Camino.

 

[LTfit]

...and you can sit on the Botafumeiro as it flies at the Pilgrims' Mass.

Yes indeed, thanks for the laughs :!: :!: :!:

Maybe after a stiff drink I will tell my story...some relationships best remain on the Camino.

 

[Shellfox]

Am really enjoying this thread!!.. 

 

[Anniesantiago]

Actually, I LEFT my 17 year long relationship after walking the Camino... twice! ::laughing::

The last time was for good - although we're still friends.
Walking each day with just what I had on my back, all that thinking, gave me the courage to do what I knew I should have done years before.

 

[Deleted member 3000]

all that thinking ... what I knew I should have done years before

A fundamental truth, I think. I found myself surprised at how few new ideas I had. I mostly selected between old ones that I had denied or rejected!

 

[Telluridewalker]

This thread reminds me of a quotation I've been pondering lately:

"Men more frequently need to be reminded than informed." -Samuel Johnson

 

[Kitsambler]

Some of the unique features of the Camino experience tend to work in this direction, don't they? We make ourselves more vulnerable and open to new experiences, we meet people from different backgrounds than we find at home, and there is - even for Europeans - a mental and physical distance from the constraints of the home environment.

There is an interesting news item this week discussing the adverse impact of living together prior to marriage. The impact stems from the tendency of "sliding rather than deciding", and I think that dynamic applies to Camino relationships as well. Plus, all those different backgrounds make for an entirely different set of perspectives and expectations.

 

[annakappa]

I know of a couple who met on the Camino and then married. She is N.American and he is Italian. They now live in the north of Italy. Anne

 

[Gueza]

Usually on day three...

 

[clearskiescamino]

As you walk into Bercianos de Real Camino, the first bar you will see is owned by a couple who met and fell in love on the Camino. She is American (I think from her accent!) and he is Spanish.

 

[EviAnd]

Yes! And it was the last thing either of us expected/were looking for.

We actually saw each other the very first morning leaving the albergue in St. Jean, but didn't end up chatting until we got to Zubiri. From that point on we were pretty much inseparable.

I was living in Canada though, and he was living in Europe, so we had a fair bit to sort out once we finished our journey.

But, I can happily say that just over a year later we are very happily living together, and one day look forward to going back and walking the Camino again.

 

[Gueza]

Further to my earlier comment.

YES!!! currently engaged to my Camino romance and due get married this September (2013)!!!

 

[frasert]

What goes on your stays on tour....

 

[caminosteph]

I've always been interested in this topic. I met my English fiance on the Camino de Santiago in 2009 and moved from Australia to the UK to be with him. Over 4 and a half years later we are engaged and awaiting the birth of our first child in 3 weeks time!

 

[piogaw]

To all peregrinos - past, present and future,

Que pasa en espana, se queda en espana.

Que pasa en el camino, se queda en el camino.

Buen camino to all.

 

[StuartM]

Actually, I LEFT my 17 year long relationship after walking the Camino... twice! ::laughing::

It was the end of a relationship that pushed me to the Camino, I'd hoped the time apart would save us.

I think it is probably quite easy to make a new relationship on the Camino. I met someone but ultimately I had to make a decision between pursuing a new relationship and salvaging an old one. Jury is still out as to whether it was the right choice.

 

[dougfitz]

To all peregrinos - past, present and future,
Que pasa en espana, se queda en espana.
Que pasa en el camino, se queda en el camino.

I didn't see many circumstances on any of the pilgrimages that I have walked where this would have been useful advice. I would like to think most pilgrims were on a higher moral plane, but perhaps I just wasn't looking in the right places.

Regards,

 

[Al the optimist]

4 days from Santiago I met and walked with someone who became a lot more more than just a friend. It's early days in a relationship that is hampered by my living in England and her living in Spain. Who knows where things will lead, but at the moment they have moved a long way in a good direction and we miss each other a lot when apart. Mind you, although she has a high English level we often have problems when my way of expressing things is misconstrued! It's easy for a mere man to get into trouble in the best of circumstances without the linguistic, cultural and geographic problems posed.

 

[piogaw]

hello al,

congatulations. distance is but a state of mind. spain is not so distance from england.

you will continue to improve your spanish as she will also profit from learning more english. this is the best way to learn a foreign language.

buena suerte y dios os bendiga.

 

[tploomis]

As you walk into Bercianos de Real Camino, the first bar you will see is owned by a couple who met and fell in love on the Camino. She is American (I think from her accent!) and he is Spanish.

I just walked through there yesterday. she is Spanish, and he is Croatian. they are a really great couple.

 

[Al the optimist]

Tenemos Whatsup, Viber y Skype después de todo piogaw!

 

[JennyH94]

4 days from Santiago I met and walked with someone who became a lot more more than just a friend. It's early days in a relationship that is hampered by my living in England and her living in Spain. Who knows where things will lead, but at the moment they have moved a long way in a good direction and we miss each other a lot when apart. Mind you, although she has a high English level we often have problems when my way of expressing things is misconstrued! It's easy for a mere man to get into trouble in the best of circumstances without the linguistic, cultural and geographic problems posed.

Hi Al - congratulations!
This thread is the kind of Forum thread which is wonderful to read - I note that you have 463 messages to your credit since you joined the Forum last year and since I joined the Forum in April this year I've read many, many of those messages on a myriad of different threads. I've enjoyed all of them. I think it's a really big and generous thing that you would like to share your happy news with other Forum members as Message 463 - thank you.
I hope that 2013 proves to be "The Year We Seized The Day" (book title courtesy of Colin Bowles and Elizabeth Best) for you and your beloved and that you have every happiness together in the future.
Cheers - Jenny

 

[Al the optimist]

Very kind of you to say that Jenny. A little bit too flattering maybe, but bless you anyway.

 

[Easytrekker]

With my higher self, my Ātman.....

 

[suekenney]

They say everyone has a love affair on the Camino. The first time I walked in 2001 I had a love affair with a German pilgrim. At first I didn't like him and when we met 3 weeks later, we fell in love. I was 45 and he was 29. The relationship lasted a year but our Camino love for each other remains forever.

 

[Al the optimist]

It wasn't my first Camino Sue and I at present consider it more than an affair! But I also fell in love on my first one -with Caminos that is.

 

[piogaw]

Hi al,

Always good to see you so cheerful. Try a new app called line. You can im,chat on video and also talk on the phone. It is a fairly new app by a japanese. You can use it on google, android phone and apple.

God bless.