Relationships are about love. Relationships are about caring. About sharing the wonderful, and difficult times.

Relationships define the time we spend on this Earth. Relationships are how we measure our joy, our happiness; our consternation, our confusion, our disappointments, and even anger.

Beautiful relationships are the healing salve of all that goes wrong. Relationships are our shoulders to lean upon, our puzzles to unravel; our sought-for new beginnings.

This new area of Celebrate’s website is dedicated to the stories of relationships. Please tell us stories about your relationships, and about those you know most intimately. Share with us all the triumphs, the lows, the questions, the challenges and small joys.

And, if you can, ask us about what we, your readers, may think; might advise, may react to what you have shared.

Celebrate Relationships is not just about the telling, it is also about the receiving of the thoughts and wisdom, the humor and laughter, the tears and disagreements we, your readers, may have to what you have given us here. Let us read, then ask us to share our reactions.

So, for contributing to Celebrate Relationships Stories, we thank you for your gift. Come back often; come back to read, to react, to enlist us in the journal-thoughts of your relationship stories.  

If you have relationship stories you are willing to share, put "Celebrate Relationships Stories" in the subject line, and send them to Celebrate (See rules for submissions below.)

We will pick some every week to put here, and if we print yours, we will send you a small "Thank You" box of Celebrate Chocolate Truffles or Chocolate Covered Cocoa Almonds.

Bookmark this page, and check back often to read the recent additions.

To start things off, we have placed a story from our founders blog here.

Please let us know what you think.

And, as with all relationship stories, savor every thought, every sense of new meaning, with a sensuous chocolate in your hand. There is no better way to let a good story sink into your heart, and let it, perhaps, even touch your soul.  

Unfolding Butterfly Wings

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Here are our few rules for submitting Celebrate Relationship stories:
1. We cannot guaranty to publish all relationship stories we receive. We will choose them based on different kinds and points of view.
2. Please remove all personal names or anything that would identify someone.
3. Be mindful of the sensitivities of our many readers, so please restrain your sexual or potentially offensive language.
4. We reserve the right to edit for grammar, or to shorten for space.
5. You give us the unconditional right to publish them here, and to use for our site’s promotional purposes, but you keep the copyright.
6. If at any time you wish to have them unpublished, just let us know. We will remove them within a few days.
7. If any reader finds a story objectionable, we reserve the right to remove it also.
8. Limit them to under 1000 words, or a bit longer if you must.
9. We will include your name on them if you desire – just be aware that other persons involved may, or may not, appreciate you placing stories that involve them here.
10. We may place images of our choosing beside your relationship stories. For copyright reasons, we cannot use your images, although you may suggest what you would like.
Thank you for considering the placement of your relationship stories here. We look forward to exploring what you have chosen to share.