’LOVE GROWS WITHOUT YOU REALIZING IT’

70 years of wedded bliss

Anne and Anthony Altilia met at a skating party when they were teenagers. Seventy years and five children later they’re still together and proud of how their love has grown.

“I think love grows without you even realizing it,” said Anne.

“You become close just living together and tolerating each other. We had our arguments, don’t get me wrong, but we always solved them.”

Anthony, on the other hand, has a much simpler approach to making relationships work.

“I just do everything she says,” he joked.

Love of others helps you love one another

Danny Glenwright and his husband, Francis Corbonu, both spend their days helping others. Glenwright heads Action Against Hunger Canada and Corbonu is a vocational rehabilitation specialist, but what’s made the marriage last five years is understanding how to help each other.

“If we have an issue, we talk about it, sometimes arguing and disagreeing, but always coming back to what’s important: making sure we find a solution that works for both of us,” said Glenwright.

Making beautiful music together

“Being in a two-piece band with your partner couldn’t be a better business model,” said Jamie Fleming, lead guitar player in the musical duo Catl.

“We only need one hotel room, we tour in our car and there are only two people to feed.”

In fact, Fleming said playing with his partner, Sarah Kirkpatrick, has actually made their music better. “We’re both musically locked in tightly and it’s a result of us spending all that time together.”

Partners in both business and love

Four years ago, Bruce Lee and Stephanie Duong met in Paris and that romance eventually led to the couple starting Roselle Desserts.

Although the business has “taken over their lives” the two have plans to marry soon.

The challenge of combining romantic and working relationships has made their love strong.

“We work together basically seven days a week, 12 hours a day,” said Duong. “It’s hard, sometimes I want to strangle him, but ultimately we couldn’t do this without each other.”