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

Mine is a story that's spanned over 9 years....!

I met him when I was 17, online, we were long distance until we met about 6 months after initially chatting. I knew I liked him a lot, he liked me, and when we first locked eyes at the airport... That was it, a done deal.

HOWEVER, after about a year or so of long distance, we realised that because I was so young, our future prospects looked bleak. I was underqualified and didn't want to get married straight away. With a lot of heartbreak on both sides we decided to part ways.


SEVEN YEARS LATER: He finds me on facebook, I'm in my final year of university, he's in the US Navy. We talk over skype (another amazing innovation which didn't exist back in our initial relationship) and we realise... Nothing has changed.
I'm still as smitten as I was when I was a teenager, and he's still the same sweet, wonderful man he was all that time ago.
We're planning a trip together in July, to see if the magic is still there! I really hope it all works out, and if it doesn't, I will be glad I took the chance.

That is very sweet, I hope your trip goes well!! :bigsmile:

My story with my husband spans 20 years. I had a huge crush on him when I was 18 years old, and he was 23. We had mutual friends and would see each other often, and one night we kissed. Shortly after this, however, he moved to Colorado and I went back to college. I often wondered about what had happened to him, but life goes on....fast forward 12 years, and I move back to my hometown with my young daughter Lily. Being a single parent, and coming out of a bad relationship, I really have no desire to date but my best friend convinces me to just look on an on-line dating site. Normally I only looked at profiles that had pictures of the guy, but there was one profile that really drew me in....no picture, but I loved what he wrote. So, we started exchanging emails, but no full names given. Finally we decide to email a picture, and you guessed it.....it was the guy I had a huge crush on 12 years earlier! We couldn't believe that we had reconnected this way...I think from the moment I saw his picture appear on my screen, I knew he was the one I was meant to be with. But we took things slow and formed a really solid friendship first. Been together now 8 years, married for five.

OMG! that is fate right there! it was meant to be

The very first day I met him. We met online by chance, talked for hours and hours that night about anything and everything. I wasn't quite sure why, but I went to bed thinking about him and envisioning a future together--which was silly to me! I didn't really talk to him the day after we met, but then the next day, January 15, 2010, he had written me the sweetest thing anyone has ever written pretty much ever. I realized I loved him as much as he loved me, and we were both so unbelievably happy the other felt the same. What are the chances of randomly being connected to someone on the Internet by PURE chance (no dating site), 1200 miles away, that you immediately connect with, and you BOTH fall head over heels for each other? Neither of us are very spiritual, but we knew this was meant to happen.

We are now living together and he proposed to me this past Thanksgiving. I said yes, of course.

I knew on our very first real date, and I told my father.
He just grunted something.
At age 16, we were engaged.
31 years later, here we are, 5 kids, a life and still knockin; boots.

Not Bad:smooched:

I don't believe in the concept of "the one." There are probably other compatible people out there for me, my husband just happens to be the one I have in my life. That said, he's my best friend, and after a while (a couple of years) I began to truly believe that we could build a life together.

I knew the minute I met him. I knew he watched me walk home from school every day...( he worked in a store a block from my house and I had to walk by everyday on my way home from cheer practice) He was two years older than me.
One day, being the super outspoken person that I am, I marched right in the store and introduced myself. He turned beat red, he had the most beautiful blue eyes and he said yes, ma'am to a lady he was helping in the store.....I knew that moment that he would be mine.
We started dating in october. I was not "old enough" to date according to my parents...I was 15 he was 17 so he would come to my house every Friday night and suffer through movies with me and my parents and all my siblings! FINALLY the 16th birthday came...in JUNE! and we had our first date after he waited for 8 months to take me on a date!
We've been together nearly every day since October 1994. We were married in October of 1998 4 years to the day that he asked me to be his girlfriend and only 17 months after I graduated from High School.( of course EVERYONE, including my own parents, said it would never last).
BUT here we are 17 years later, married for 13 years, 3 kids, and still crazy, madly in love with each other.
I think we have only spent about 14 nights apart from each other total in the past 13 years of marriage. Wherever he goes, I go. He is my everything.

The first time i meet my hubbie i thought i had just made a good new friend, the 2nd time we meet we felt sparks of it becoming a lot more. third time and we were all in and have been every since. 17 years married now. ..