Dr. Ruth Westheimer met her husband Manfred Westheimer in 1961, according to The Morning Call. Like his wife, Manfred escaped Nazi Germany when he was a child, moving to Portugal with his family. Manfred eventually came to the United States, moving to Louisville, Ky., to live with some relatives while attending high school. According to her column in Moment, Dr. Ruth married two times before finding true love with Manfred. The pair met on a ski trip to the Catskills. "It wasn't love at first sight," Dr. Ruth wrote. "Love at first sight doesn't exist. The only thing that can exist at first sight is an interest in developing a relationship." Dr. Ruth called her two prior marriages "legalized love affairs," but her relationship with Manfred was "true love."
"We shared everything during our marriage, up until his passing in 1997. He supported my career when I was just starting as a radio talk show host in the 80s, coming with me every Sunday when I recorded the program at WYNY," she wrote, revealing that her husband got a kick out of her job as a sex therapist. The couple shares a son, Joel Westheimer, and Manfred legally adopted Ruth's daughter, Miriam. According to The Morning Call, the couple shared a beautiful love story up until 1997, when Manfred died of a stroke. "I don't know for sure if relationships can be beshert, maybe," Ruth shared. "But what I do know is that Fred was the right husband for me." How cute!
