Realizing your S.O. was the 'one' :)

brittanyscherich

I was in love with my husband before we even met. Literally. We fell in love over myspace lol. I don't remember any one moment where I realized he was the one. I just always knew.

durangocal

PS-I am a sucker for romantic stories. Thanks to the OP for coming up with the topic and for everyone who shared their love story!

Tamstar1985

my husband and i met in october of 2010.

my first impression of him was a playboy... well-off, tall, handsome, always going to parties and seemingly really popular with girls. we exchanged numbers but i thought nothing would come of it. well, soon enough, we were having texting marathons nearly every night of the week.

one day i invited him over for dinner and drinks. he was shocked at my cooking ability and the fact that i killed and cleaned a fish on my own for dinner that night. afterward, we went on several dates and hiking trips together. on his birthday at the end of november, i baked him a dozen adorable cupcakes. it was that day, november 30th, that he suddenly said "i think we should get married. i can't imagine being with anyone else."

one year later to the day, we got our wedding certificate

tinkermommc

Love at first sight. We had talked over the internet and were attending a conference together. Since he arrived first, he and a couple of the other guys came to pick me up at the airport, this was back before only passengers could get to the gates. Anyway I got off the plane and was walking down the hall and they were walking down the opposite side. And I thought "oh my god, I love that guy that's giggling" Then I found out that was my ride. So we all went to a british pub in Vegas for lunch after that and he and I have been together since. We both cried when he had to drop me off at the airport to go home. As soon as I got home I started applying for the college he went to and was moved 4 mos later. That was 13 yrs and 2 kids ago :-)

We frequent Vegas now(our 5 yo loves it there) and we always go back to that british pub!

MaximalLife

EVERYONE, including my own parents, said it would never last

Yep - we got that.
My own father said at our wedding, "I know your first wife; haven't met your second."
In other words, she'd never stay married to a guy like me.

What a jack-*kitten*...
We moved away and have cut my whole family out of our lives.

paulamarsden

We met at a works christmas party. he followed me around like a lost puppy all night.

he was living with someone, bad relationship, it had fizzled out, i was living with a guy who treated me like dirt.

we started having coffee as friends and fell in love, he kicked her out, i packed my stuff. we moved in together the day we became a couple and were engaged 3 months later. this July we will have been married 3 years.

im 27, everyone said it wouldnt last but he's my best friend, he drives me crazy but i love him anyway.

carriem73

We were matched by EHarmony on Christmas day of 2008, exchanged our first emails the first week of Jan, started talking on the phone every night Jan 7, our first in person date was Jan 31 (three years tomorrow!)- I knew the moment we touched when he walked in the restaurant- we were engaged April 23 and married Dec 19 of 2009-

When you know, you know!

Racheyj76

The first night we met!

We found each other randomly on a classifieds website I was looking for people to chat with online at the time. We chatted online for a couple of weeks before deciding to meet. The night we met I knew he was the man I wanted to be with for the rest of my life.. I even told people at work that I had "met the man I was going to marry last night". We were married within 5 months and now 5 children and 14 years later are still very much in love..

Rachel

acstansell

I knew my husband in high school - we actually dated for about 2 weeks over one summer. But when you are a Junior and your boyfriend is an incoming freshmen, that's a big thing in high school. Plus, my husband was clingy when he was young. So, I dumped him for someone else.

Fast forward to college - My high school boyfriend viciously dumped me in my first semester of college and I lost all my friends (because I made that stupid mistake you make when you are young and you give up everything for someone you think you love). I reached out to him via AIM just for someone to talk to. We spent the next few months talking.

Then, he invited me to visit him and go to a concert. I would see him every now and then, but we were only friends. Then on NYE 2001, we kissed for the first time and decided to try seeing each other, but with out exclusivity.

1.5 years later... how I knew he was it... the whole time we were getting more and more romantic, he never pushed me to do anything I didn't want to do. I was a virgin and he didn't want me to make a decision I would regret. Also, the entire time we were seeing each other w/out exclusivity he never dated anyone else, while I did.

We got married in 2007 - after 7 years of dating. We've been together 11 years now. He's my partner, my best friend, and to this day, still lets me be me. He is a person I would do anything for - and I know he would for me.

misscase

I have to agree with what many have said- you just *know*.
It's the weirdest feeling but somehow you just know. I have known since a few months in and regardless of the problems we've had, I've never doubted our relationship. It's just like something clicks inside you and you know.
I dated someone before for 7.5 years and with him I was never sure and always wondered "how do you know?"
Trust me, you'll know when its right.

songbyrdsweet

I have to agree with what many have said- you just *know*.
It's the weirdest feeling but somehow you just know. I have known since a few months in and regardless of the problems we've had, I've never doubted our relationship. It's just like something clicks inside you and you know.
I dated someone before for 7.5 years and with him I was never sure and always wondered "how do you know?"
Trust me, you'll know when its right.

I so agree!! My bf and I went through a rough patch the 2nd month we were together...initially he was very clingy and insecure because he had so little dating experience and was really floored by his feelings for me. But I had been just like that in my previous relationship (it lasted 3.5 years and I never 'knew') so I totally understood him to the point of reading his mind! Since then we are inseparable and I have never doubted us.

mo_is_here

When did you realize it? How did you know?

My stepmom said she knew the minute she met my dad. Having just been through a bad divorce, my dad wasn't in that frame of mind initially, but around 4-6 months he said he realized it was going to work and last a very very long time. He told me this the other day while I was telling him about how my bf and I are doing (dad and I are really close). My beau and I have been together about 5 months. I was really screwed over before we started dating and took things really slowly at first. But now I have reached an incredible level of confidence in our relationship.

Just want to hear others' happy stories!

I was actually semi-dating (not serious) one of his friends and when we met I just "knew". Every time we'd all be sitting around talking he'd look right into my eyes it seemed. And he says he knew immediately he was going to marry me because I was wearing a Pittsburgh Steelers crop t-shirt the first time he saw me. Ahhh... love at first sight, lol.

Oh and I wanted to add that we've been married 27 years!

songbyrdsweet

When did you realize it? How did you know?

My stepmom said she knew the minute she met my dad. Having just been through a bad divorce, my dad wasn't in that frame of mind initially, but around 4-6 months he said he realized it was going to work and last a very very long time. He told me this the other day while I was telling him about how my bf and I are doing (dad and I are really close). My beau and I have been together about 5 months. I was really screwed over before we started dating and took things really slowly at first. But now I have reached an incredible level of confidence in our relationship.

Just want to hear others' happy stories!

I was actually semi-dating (not serious) one of his friends and when we met I just "knew". Every time we'd all be sitting around talking he'd look right into my eyes it seemed. And he says he knew immediately he was going to marry me because I was wearing a Pittsburgh Steelers crop t-shirt the first time he saw me. Ahhh... love at first sight, lol.

Oh and I wanted to add that we've been married 27 years!

Wow, awesome! The eye contact is really telling.

AmberJslimsAWAY

I knew by our second date. He is just amazing, he completes me and I have ever had a man quite like him. I remember on our 4th date or so telling a friend of mine "I'm going to make him fall in love with me" not knowing at the time, he already had Three years later and we are getting married on the 29th of Feb :smooched:

VictorianJade

I knew, instantly. Once the connection was made, I didn't question a thing.

I've shared the story a billion times, but in the end... his gentle, accepting nature, his emotional stability (I'm an up and down kinda gal), his strength, his good values.... it all fit.

I knew we'd be together.

Ireshgurl

When I mentioned that since he was military he wouldn't want a relationship, he said "that's not true".

rammsteinsoldier

I am afraid there are nothing but sad stories for me at the time.

Looking foward to the feeling of true and lasting love. I hear it is great. I certainly believe it is out there for me.

SofaKingRad

As soon as she woke me up in the middle of the night and showed me the results of the pregnancy test she just took. I knew.

AmberJslimsAWAY

As soon as she woke me up in the middle of the night and showed me the results of the pregnancy test she just took. I knew.

bwahahaha that's so wrong!

infamousmk

As soon as I saw his junk.

rammsteinsoldier

As soon as she woke me up in the middle of the night and showed me the results of the pregnancy test she just took. I knew.

Great Answer:laugh:

songbyrdsweet

I knew by our second date. He is just amazing, he completes me and I have ever had a man quite like him. I remember on our 4th date or so telling a friend of mine "I'm going to make him fall in love with me" not knowing at the time, he already had Three years later and we are getting married on the 29th of Feb :smooched:

Wow congratulations!!

AmberJslimsAWAY

I knew by our second date. He is just amazing, he completes me and I have ever had a man quite like him. I remember on our 4th date or so telling a friend of mine "I'm going to make him fall in love with me" not knowing at the time, he already had Three years later and we are getting married on the 29th of Feb :smooched:

Wow congratulations!!

Thanks

songbyrdsweet

As soon as she woke me up in the middle of the night and showed me the results of the pregnancy test she just took. I knew.

Munque

I was tired of dating the same "type" of men, I live in a small town and there just aren't that many options. So I told my mom I wanted to date a "white guy that listens to country music, drives a pickup truck, wears jeans and a button up, boots are ok, but no big belt buckle or anything" Those were my exact words. So she starts looking up guys online and I'm completely not into it at all. So she sets me up a profile (yeah, one of those moms). So I go on to the site and change my profile to better suite me. And then While I'm showing it to a friend for approval, my now husband messages me, and me, my friend, and him all play 20 questions for hours. He seems great, all the qualities I'm really looking for AND all the things I had told my mom. He is completly NOT my type, at all, not even a little, but for some reason, I'm adoring this guy. So we meet and go to dinner and a movie and to have a drink, we end up staying up all night talking about nothing and everything at the same time and pass out together on the couch.

I went to work the next monday and told my co-worker, I'm going to marry this guy.

About 3 weeks later, he's working in a town 3 hours away, and I got sick, kidney stone (worse pain in the world) but I suck it up while I'm talking to him so he doesn't think I'm a pansy. Well, apparently I didn't do a very good job, because I get off the phone with him and 2 hours later he is standing at the foot of my bed with a pizza. He started driving while I was on the phone with him. I had told him that I was going to get up and make dinner when I got off the phone with him and he didn't believe me (I did make dinner, but I didn't eat). He said he knew that I didn't feel very good and he couldn't stand the thought of me being alone when he could be there to take care of me. He stayed there the rest of the night, and got up at 3am to drive the 3 hours back to work. None of that was necessary, I'm perfectly capable of taking care of myself, but the fact that he did all that, just to be with me while I was sick, well...

The next day, I went to work and told my coworker, "told you"

We've been married going on 3 years, and

bikermike5094

At my best friends wedding, i was the best man and wife to be was the maid of honor. I had spent a few weeks with her helping plan the wedding but it never crossed my mind to date her. At the reception, i was sitting with my mom and wife to be and the wife to be got up to to go get us some cake. As she is walking away my mom said "she has got the most beautiful hair..." It was literally like God reached down and slapped my upside the head and opened my eyes. My wife has long naturally curly strawberry blonde hair and had it done up for the wedding and I never saw it. I asked her to go to supper that night. We went camping the next weekend. Got engaged a year later on Crazy Horse national monument and married a year later. That was 20 years ago.

Horskrzy

I seem to recall that she told me.:laugh:

Seriously, we both worked at the same restaurant together in high school. I was quite a flirt with all the girls so she had to let me know via my brother (who also worked there) that she was interested in more than just flirting. I naturally had noticed her but thought she was way out of my league so to say I was overjoyed at the prospect of dating her would be an understatement.

We dated for at least 6 months and I got to know her and her family quite well. Her Dad would call me "The Kid" all the time (never to my face though) and both she and her mother would conspire together (cheat) to make sure I would rarely win at Cribbage. One night as I was doing my chores at home (ironing, yuck!) and talking with her on the phone (did that a lot!) it suddenly hit me and I said I loved her. There was a pause and she replied in kind.

I have now been married to my "Best Friend Forever" for 35 years this May and continue to enjoy every day I spend with her and am looking forward to spending another 50 or so years together!

alex215

when she cut my toenails.

shanolap

From the first time I saw him. But I test drove the *kitten* out of him to make sure!

songbyrdsweet

when she cut my toenails.

Hahaha, quality.