Writing this article on relationship advice from unconventional sources—a taxi driver, a doorman, a florist, a grandmother, a subway busker—for Glo often made me teary eyed. I loved hearing each person’s individual love story, as well their musings on true love. Given their professions, they spend their days watching couples go about their daily routines, giving them a strange—and powerful—insight into what makes a relationship work.
The one thing they all told me? True love is quiet and kind—and those couples who make it seem like one person, because they’re always together. Kind of different than what we might want to hear, but moving nonetheless.
(PS—The best part? I got to use Stuprendan as “the teenage boy,” and someone raised him right, because he is very chivalrous and romantic.)
