‘After intensive self-examination, it turned out that our love was not over’
Singer and presenter Do lives with Marc Verschoor. Together they have a son and a daughter: Jip and Loulou.
Every year as our wedding date approaches, I’m working on it daily for the two weeks before that. Don’t forget to arrange something nice, book a restaurant, buy cake, breakfast in bed. But when the big day comes, I’ll forget. My other half is just as attentive. Fortunately, one of our best friends then sends us an app to congratulate us so that we can raise a glass at the end of the day with the wine we already had in the house. We don’t really take the time to reflect on our being together. We take it for granted.
love dip
And that while we also know what it’s like to go through life without each other. More than ten years ago we had a serious love dip, a definitive end seemed inevitable. We decided to say goodbye to everything we had built together, all memories, including our little palace on the Plantage Muidergracht, and to part ways.
“We take our being together for granted and that while we also know what it’s like to go through life without each other”
Both another love in our lives and life smiled at us again. Sincerely convinced that we could be really happy with someone else. But as John Mayer sings: Half of my heart won’t do. After intensive self-examination it turned out that our love for each other was not over. A nice song was once made about that, I believe… 😉
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Peaks and valleys
We’ve been through almost all the ups and downs together: financial woes, family hassles, deaths, moving eight times, renovating four times, careers in the slum, burnouts, number 1 hits and promotions. We’ve seen it all.
With dual embodiments of our love, I’ve been sharing more than half of my life with this special man—and I’m more than ready for the second half.
When somebody loves you, it’s no good unless he loves you all the way, so if you let me love you, it’s for sure I’m gonna love you all the way… (That’s how Frank Sinatra sang.)
With a nice party in the offing in March next year, I’ll probably start planning, because otherwise it will pass us by unnoticed.
True love is… 20 years and counting!
This article is in the Kek Mama Love Special 2022.
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