I’ve been a Backstreet fan for twenty years and all I can say is that the Backstreet Boys are my heroes. They simply saved my life when I was under a serious depression. Their music made me happy and brought my life, joy, happiness and dreams back. They became my motivation to overcome all the difficulties I was through in my life.
I always believed that someday they would know about this love and the importance of them in my life, as real heroes. And I was not wrong. After 12 years, in 2009, I first met them. It was such an awesome moment, I’ll never forget. At that moment, I finally met the one that would become the love of my life, the one that I would love unconditionally: AJ McLean. I felt as if my heart had found the eyes and the smile it had always searched for.
For this love, I faced my fear of fly and in 2011 and 2013 I dove into in the biggest dream of all, the BSB cruise. All I can say is that I lived a fairy tale with my princes and my king AJ! The way he has treated me, with such tenderness, singing for me three times so far, is much more than I have ever dreamed. Having this attention is something that makes me very proud and grateful.
Today, he calls me his Brazilian girl and this loving kindness that we share is what moves me to keep on publishing not only Backstreet Boys songs and projects but also their solo careers. My fan club BSB Don’t stop dreaming is already 10 years old now and today we are 4000 fans sharing information and love. The kind of love that gets stronger as time passes by. A love that I can’t explain rationally, that it is only emotional. A love that has already wrote and that will write unique memories in my mind, which I will carry with me wherever I go. Because as long as I live this is what they will be to me: Larger than life.
My pages:
BLOG: http://fcbsbdontstopdreaming.blogspot.com.br/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Bsbfanclubdontstopdreaming
Page for AJ: https://www.facebook.com/AjMcleanSkulleerozInMyHeart
Instagram : my= fatimamclean / Fan club: fcbsbdontstop
Twitter: @fcbsbdontstop/@RE_AJ_CARTER
TUMBRL: http://bsbfcdontstopdreaming.tumblr.com/

I hope i am not to late to the party. But i lost my brother back in 2000 and Show me the meaning, became the song i am still having issues listening too. Even after all these years, life should have been good back then. I cry a fountain and sing, it must sound intressting. I remember that song was a tribute to several you've lost. But like that one and others it helped me thru that time, where everything fell apart. Then life strikes again reminding me that what you have may end whenever, i lost my mother 2014. Show em' what you're made off, i tried to i don't know to use it. In hopes of my mother getting better. Last year (2016) i also lost my more or less enstraged father. The music still helps me, without the music i think i wouldn't have even tried. As time goes it gets better, but i can't help to feel incomplete. But i also feel if i don't forget, they were never gone. I even played my mother favorite Backstreet Boys song at her funeral, if i don't have you. Cause that's what she wanted, i'm still not sure where i am. Or when i heal, but at least i got the music. Where i can feel some emotions and not just the everyday. I'm still on shut down , trying to recover. Feeling like someone punched you in the face and down for the count down.

BSB music has been saving/getting me though tough situations for many many years. It helped me stay calm even after a good friend killed her self only 2mths into our year 12 (senior yr) & my cousin before that & when I lost my best friend in 2000. When JD, my brother died in 2002 all I wanted to do was die & be with him but I needed to stay strong to help my family, I was raped in the same year & eventually I tried killing myself on the 1st anniversary as I let everything build up & thought I couldn't keep going BUT their music saved me. In the Past 9yrs I've had Arnold Chairi Malformation (bit like a brain hernia with part of the brain leaking out of the skull) which causes 24/7 mirgrains & it's extremely hard for me been stuck in my house as after JD died I was always going out with my mates every weekend & having fun. But now I'm stuck in a dark room nearly 24/7 & their music helps calm me down like a great friend. After 3 miscarriages & told I couldn't get past the 11 week mark of pregnancy once again they saved me.
There's been many other things in my life & I know there's many ppl out their going though so much more but as I've said (sorry not good at writing about myself) my boys, my angels (besides JD) have done so much for me & after 25yrs or so I'm loyal as they r loyal to all of us. I pray to god to let them keep saving their fans lives.i also know Never Gone came out after JD dying but it helped every day.
Thank you Nick, Howie, AJ, Kevin & Brian for saving this Aussie girl.
To the BSB Army, sisters & brothers keep supporting out Boys & each other pls.

This is so touching and inspirational. I think that BSB fans are the best because they have the biggest hearts and they support one another. The love of the boys and their music not only brings us together, it gives us a power to overcome many obstacles and come out on top.

This was a lovely article. Thank you to all the fans who shared their stories. So many of the other fans I've met have their back story, and I love how the Boys have brought people together, brought people back to life. In college (1998-2002), I was mocked for being a Backstreet fan. But one sweet young man understood and respected my obsession. We listened to all sorts of music, but he knew I had a soft spot for BSB. I was going to surprise him with floor seats to the Black & Blue tour at Nassau Coliseum in July 2001, but he was murdered in April. The concert was delayed for AJ's rehab, but I went - alone - on Thursday, September 6, 2001. And when I watched the events of the following Tuesday from my dorm room on Long Island, BSB's music was again there to help me breath. Their music really does save lives, and I am eternally grateful for Backstreet Boys. KTBSPA!