How did you know you were marrying the right person?

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I totally married the wrong person the first time. I've been divorced almost a year now. All I can say is make sure her sammich making skills are up to par before saying "I Do"

Turns out I didn't :laugh:

Well, it's pretty easy.

The day I met my wife (I was not trying to pick her up btw, just stating a fact) I told her I wasn't looking for a girlfriend, I was looking for my wife.

I was at that stage in life to settle down. She had just turned 20, I was 25 approaching 26. She wanted no strings attached...
We tried that, it didn't last long...we spent every waking minute together, partially due to boredom where we lived, but mostly because of how much fun we had together just talking, and hanging out getting to know each other.

I gave her a promise ring a few months later... but a few weeks after that (being the broke college student I was at the time) I proposed with a ring pop...and she said yes, and I had already known I was going to buy her a real ring, but the fact without hesitation she was willing to accept the gesture and not care about the ring itself, just made it that much better.

I have of course bought her a real ring as we have been married for over 2 years now, but still.. She wanted me and I wanted her, with or without money our lives were made better by being together and being able to share our life with one another.

It may sound cheesy, but that's how I knew.

I didn't and that's the reason why I called my wedding off, two weeks prior to the "big day". :blushing:

She made me a sammich, with bacon, and yelled more obscenities at the TV during football than I did.

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: lol

You don't know. Even with vows, promises, and good intentions, there are no guarantees.

The way we both understand eachother so well. The way we enjoy eachother's company. The way we are attracted to eachother. The fun we have together. The way we learn from eachother. The ways we are similar. The way we respect eachother. And appreciate eachother. We have been married for 14 years (knew eachother for 4 years before that).

I recently got married myself, though he and I lived together for a couple of years before that and I've been helping raise his son during that time. I agree with others who say you don't "know". Heck, you can marry the "wrong" person and still make it work. I would argue that that's what my parents did(30-something years and counting for them, somehow). In my opinion, it's not about marrying the right person. It's about making yourself the best partner you can possibly be for another person and trusting that they will do the same. My husband never ceases to amaze me in this regard. We can both be stubborn *kitten* at times, but we quickly come to the realization that some things are better compromised over than fought about. I knew before we got married(he helped me get through school) that he was quite self-sacrificing in the area of helping me achieve my goals, so I knew that I would be well taken care of. We both just have to step up and show that mutual respect and put in the effort on a daily basis.

Well. I wanted milk, so I figured I may as well buy a cow.

*Like*

I didn't. I made an educated guess after I was sure I knew myself well enough.

Wtf does this have to do with weight loss?

Boobs. It always comes back to boobs.

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This is me choking her because she didn't make my sammich.

I lived with my wife for 5 years before we got married. This wasn't due to lack of commitment or anything, it was really because she had an ex-husband that disappeared and it took her 5 years to finally get the divorce finalized. After living with someone for 5 years you pretty much know whether or not it's going to work out.

when her parents ran out of the back of the church yelling sucks to be you...YUP

I knew my husband was the right one because we've been best friends for 8 years, we still talk EVERY lunch break, we play games together, we have similar humor, we only need each other for a social life...yea...we are the bestest of buds still. It still makes me happy when he calls me for his entire lunch break just to hang out and talk about randomness.

Marry your best friend.

My husband and I are the same way. We talk 24/7. If not on the phone, then by text. Even when he left the doctor's office today, and it is literally 5 minutes from our house, he still called me to talk. We laugh about the same morbid, not-funny-to-most jokes, etc. Like just yesterday he made a joke about how I can easily find a girlfriend out of a group of girls because one was crying so that makes her an easy target. I thought that was hilarious. Or yesterday we were in a restaurant and he wanted to know why I didn't let him know about the health bomb behind him... "you know, the table whose combined age is 2000." We are both health professionals so we don't want to be in a situation in which someone may croak. Funny to me, not to all. Oh, and we will be married 5 years in December and together 6.