31 Stories About The Craziest Things People Did For Love

A guy named Bal Kishun Ram who constructed a Temple of his wife after she passed away.

One guy hijacked a plane with demands to be reunited with his wife and kid.

We had the astronaut love triangle, where astronaut Lisa Nowak supposedly wore diapers while she drove 1,000 miles from Houston, TX to Orlando, FL to confront her astronaut ex-boyfriend’s lover. She was charged after pepper spraying Colleen Shipman, an Air Force captain who had been romantically linked to the boyfriend, William Oefelein. She had a bunch of suspicious items in the trunk of the car she had stolen from her estranged husband for the trip, like gloves, a folding knife, a trench coat, etc.

Lisa followed Colleen from the baggage claim at the Orlando airport to the parking lot, where she pepper sprayed her. Colleen drove to a security station, and Lisa was quickly caught.

But true love knows no boundaries. And so the two of them develop a daring plan: Hans Christian is to learn how to fly in order to take Isolde over the Iron Curtain. After nine months and forty hours of flying, he is ready. As a new pilot the young Swede flies off to bring the love of his life to freedom...

Yaghoot Khanum (ms. Ruby) was an iranian woman who came to Azadi(Shahyad) square for more than 30 years , almost everyday dressed fully in red(hence the ruby) According to those who spoke to her, she had a date once with a man she desperately loved around the square, but he never showed. So for years she went there and waited for him to be there and allegedly gave relationship advice to young people who came to see her.

My grandmother left Manchester, UK to move to New Jersey, US with my grandfather who was a military engineer stationed in the UK during WW2. They met at a roller rink.

Can't imagine anyone doing something like that now and if they did I'd probably think they were insane.

In the beginning of the 1900s up until the fall of the monarchy in Egypt, there was hundreds of stories of girls from influential families and noble families that would run away and marry lower ranking people, my great grandmother was one of them she married the son of a small tradesman which was my great grandfather and she was disowned by them and been denied all her inheritance.

Also heard from my grandmother from the other side of the family of a woman who did the same and settled in their village she used to teachher how to braid her hair with different styles.

I guess it was a trend since there're multiple black and white film with similar stories 😅.

Well. This is creepy not endearing lol.
Hospital Tech Carl Tanzler (Key West, 1930s) became obsessed with a TB patient Elena de Hoyos, paid for her burial, visited her mausoleum, took her body 2 years later and kept it for 7 years trying to preserve her w wax. Her sister found out and turned him in. Never got convicted bc the statute of limitations had expired.

Fought against Christians, survived a six month siege, becoming a sole survivor of a charge he led, and then converted to Christianity after finding out his girl had converted herself meanwhile. (Baptism on the Savica, epic poem by France Prešeren).

Not sure love is the right word but Henry VIII created a new religion.

Philippines:

climbing a power tower after breakup.

In Toledo City, Cebu, a 19-year-old man climbed a 200-meter electric tower after his girlfriend left him. Police had to shut off the power lines and negotiate for hours until the girlfriend came and convinced him to come down. ..the things we do for love aarghhh.