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    Love stories

    A cruise becomes a real-life Love Boat: The language of love is the onlylanguage this couple shared

    Shelby Hodge
    Feb 27, 2012 | 10:16 am
    • They were married in April of 2010.
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    • She's working on her Spanish and he has learned English.
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    • Gabriel Alvarado dropped to his knees in Old San Juan to propose to LinsayScott.
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    Linsay Scott had certain expectations when she boarded the cruise ship in Puerto Rico in January of 2007. She, her sister and her dad were anticipating great weather, beautiful sights and loads of fun. But soon enough, Linsay got more than she bargained for or rather more than she ever dreamed of.

    Gabriel Alvarado and a few of his friends, all natives of Puerto Rico, were also on the cruise for a little playcation. On day two at sea, Linsay recalls, "I me a handsome Puerto Rican guy (Gabriel) . . . We spent all 12 days of the cruise together and were so sad when it came to an end."

    There was just one difficulty with this shipboard romance. He spoke no English. She had no ability with Spanish. So his brother served as translator. "It was pretty much 12 days of Pictionary and charades," she says.

    There was just one difficulty with this shipboard romance. He spoke no English. She had no ability with Spanish.

    At cruise end, each went home with a determination to stay in touch. They emailed, translated and emailed some more until eventually they were able to actually talk on the telephone — without a translator. Gabriel was a college freshman and had decided to study English. He visited Houston. She visited him in Puerto Rico. And back and forth for seven months. Finally, in July Gabriel moved to Houston.

    Fast forward to February of 2009. They returned to Puerto Rico to visit Gabriel's family. "We were walking around Old San Juan (along Paseo del la Princesa) with his family and his cousin, a photographer, who asked to take our picture in front of the famous Raices Fountain. In all of my previous visits to Puerto Rico, we would come to this fountain because it was close to where all the cruise ships docked.

    "After the first picture, Gabriel dropped down to one knee, actually, he was on both knees" to propose. She said "yes" and they were wed in April of 2010.

    Today, Linsay, 29, works as a fit specialist at Francesca's Collections and studies Spanish. Gabriel works in security.

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    Love Your Mother-In-Law

    Daughter-in-Law Diaries: New site gives you tools to deal with the other womanin your husband's life

    Whitney Radley
    Feb 28, 2012 | 6:04 am
    • Daughter-in-Law Diaries launched in late January.
      Daughter-in-Law Diaries
    • Founder Ali Katz hopes that the website will help to bring families together.
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    Long the scourge of a healthy and happy marriage, a daughter-in-law's relationship with her mother-in-law often follows the same story: Daughter-in-law becomes frustrated with nagging and bragging, mother-in-law fails to see how her interference is burdensome, son plays both sides, no one wins.

    As a new wife and a new mom, this cycle was a part of Houstonian Ali Katz's life, too. Discontented with the situation, and tired of venting to her husband, Katz took to writing a novel about the tribulations of dealing with a mother-in-law.

    Katz noticed that she didn't like the main character — her​ — who was impatient with her well-meaning mother-in-law. So she decided to do something about it.

    "It was really a cathartic experience," Katz tells CultureMap. "It made me take a big, hard look at myself."

    Katz noticed that she didn't like the main character — her​ — who was impatient with her well-meaning mother-in-law. So she decided to do something about it.

    In late January, Katz launched Daughter-in-Law Diaries, an interactive website designed to help herself and others improve upon the oft-contentious relationship.

    Daughter-in-Law Diaries offers licensed therapists to council and answer tough questions, easy recipes and entertaining ideas to impress and plenty of forum space to vent to sympathetic users — other women who face similar woes.

    As the website expands, expect to see Wedding Wisdom Profiles from event planners (Christine Hoffer from Belle of the Ball will be the first featured, and then Philadelphia-based Barbara-Jo Saler) and full menus from guest chefs (Spoiler alert! Ari Rosenson, the executive chef from CUT in Los Angeles, has already signed on, as has Skinny Ms.).

    "I am so excited about this project, because even though there are so many wonderful recipes online, these full menus will really help pull the whole meal together and ease the stress of entertaining family and friends," Katz says.

    The whole point, Katz explains, is to bring families together. Those daughters-in-law already using the website have responded with overwhelming positivity: Where before they felt isolated, they now have a place to connect and an outlet for anonymous release about the other woman in your man's life.

    And as for her own mother-in-law? "We have a wonderful relationship," Katz says.

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