Can you remember the moment....

[1Prince2Princesses]

that you knew you were in love with your SO?

When my DH and I were dating, we went to the animal shelter to look at cats. There were cages of fluffy, adorable kittens.... dozens of them. There was a small cage with just one cat in it off to the side. It was sick and sad looking, and about the most pitiful cat I'd ever seen. When he picked it up and said he was taking that one home, I fell instantly in love.

Tell me your romantic stories.

 

[Mysteria]

that you knew you were in love with your SO?

When my DH and I were dating, we went to the animal shelter to look at cats. There were cages of fluffy, adorable kittens.... dozens of them. There was a small cage with just one cat in it off to the side. It was sick and sad looking, and about the most pitiful cat I'd ever seen. When he picked it up and said he was taking that one home, I fell instantly in love.

Tell me your romantic stories.

I just told you!

Myst

 

[need_a_Disney_fix]

I knew my DH was a keeper after our third date. We met March 3 and were married December 30. We are coming up on our 30th wedding anniversary. We also work at the same office and he is my boss. I love him more and more every day...seriously.

 

[1Prince2Princesses]

I just told you!

Myst

But I want more!

 

[ImarriedGrumpy]

DH and I met online through a singles website on June 14. We discovered we had a "3 degrees of separation" connection - one of his best friends was going to be a groomsman in my roommate's wedding, and my now DH had met my roomie's fiance several times in the past, but didn't know him well. So my roomie and I checked out DH's references by contacting her DF and finding out that he knew lots of people who knew DH and could vouch for him.

I started talking to DH on the phone for 2-3 hours a day by the end of June, and invited him to visit me at the end of July. He stayed with a friend of mine and we hung out for a weekend - he helped me set up and run a garage sale, he helped us try to get a new couch into our apartment (it didn't fit), he let my friend's 4 yr. old daughter climb all over him, and we also had one "real" date going for a walk, having a picnic, and reading poetry together.

It was at the end of the weekend that I realized I really loved this man and he was "the one". It was time for him to leave and fly back to CA (I was living in WI at the time), and I just felt heartbroken thinking that he was leaving and I didn't know how long it would be before I could be with him again. I loved spending time with him, and in just a weekend he had established himself as a "normal" part of my life.

We were engaged Oct 9, and married the next Feb 28! It's been 3 years, and I still say it was the best decision I ever made!

 

[Mysteria]

But I want more!

Ok, ok. Well falling in love was partially online/on the phone and partially spending a week or two here or there with each other. He lived in Brooklyn, I lived in Toronto. On one visit to him he had a big sign when I got off the plane at La Guardia asking me to marry him.

Myst

 

[PrincessJasmine]

I sure do. We weren't even dating then...we didn't get together until seven years later. But I was leaving school one day and something made me turn around. There she was, leaning against the building and talking on her cell phone, and there was just something about her right then...I immediately knew I was falling in love. I went home and wrote a poem.

 

[Mysteria]

I sure do. We weren't even dating then...we didn't get together until seven years later. But I was leaving school one day and something made me turn around. There she was, leaning against the building and talking on her cell phone, and there was just something about her right then...I immediately knew I was falling in love. I went home and wrote a poem.

That's cool. Love to see the poem if you still have it and are comfortable sharing. If not that's cool too.

Myst

 

[PrincessJasmine]

That's cool. Love to see the poem if you still have it and are comfortable sharing. If not that's cool too.

Myst

I do have it...it's really a silly poem, I was only 16 when I wrote it. After seven years, I finally gave it to her. Here it is:

Today I fell in love...
she's different than what I expected
but she's everything I dreamed of
I can't imagine even talking to her
She's so untouchable, she's just a dream
Today when she walked by
something came over me
suddenly I couldn't speak
I got so dizzy you wouldn't believe it
Everything about her is so beautiful...
inside and out, although I don't even know her
somehow I feel that she's wonderful
this is a miracle
waiting to happen.

 

[Mysteria]

I do have it...it's really a silly poem, I was only 16 when I wrote it. After seven years, I finally gave it to her. Here it is:

Today I fell in love...
she's different than what I expected
but she's everything I dreamed of
I can't imagine even talking to her
She's so untouchable, she's just a dream
Today when she walked by
something came over me
suddenly I couldn't speak
I got so dizzy you wouldn't believe it
Everything about her is so beautiful...
inside and out, although I don't even know her
somehow I feel that she's wonderful
this is a miracle
waiting to happen.

I got goosebumps! That is great! Since you are still together I'm guessing she thought so too!

Myst

 

[sugarpie]

Well, I peed on the stick & it had a line on it.

Just kidding.

 

[UnderDog]

that you knew you were in love with your SO?

The first time I heard her sing... She was my brother’s wife in a summer play. I used to joke that I married my brother’s first wife. Well any way she has a beautiful singing voice... And she is very a beautiful person.

 

[tiggersmom2]

I was at my favorite country and western bar and saw his profile....oh...my....God. Can you say Urban Cowboy...lol.

 

[Mysteria]

I was at my favorite country and western bar and saw his profile....oh...my....God. Can you say Urban Cowboy...lol.

Can he ride a mechanical bull?

 

[dreamcometrue]

when I met my DH, he was in the Army! We met one night in August, and he was to leave on a mission with the Army for 3 months the very next day! I honestly didn't think he was going to be the one, and I thought that I would never see or hear from him after that first night. He asked me for my number but I was like "yeah right", thinking I'd never hear from him again, but I gave it to him anyway! The very next morning, he called, very early saying "I just wanted to say goodbye before I left". Awww...anyway, still didn't think it was going to last. I was 19, and well...3 months is a very long time, esp. since we had just met! He was gone and wrote me EVERY SINGLE DAY! I just kept thinking "well, we'll see what happens when he comes back". He came back in October, and called me as soon as he returned. It was late, and we made a date for the next evening! We were to meet at a street corner and then figure out what we were going to do from there. Well, I arrived half an hour late, and I thought he'd be long gone by then, but he wasn't. And as I walked up to the street corner, seeing him standing there, and my heart beat faster and faster the closer I got...I just knew he was the one! We hugged, and he held me so tightly, and I just knew we'd be together forever!

 

[tiggersmom2]

Can he ride a mechanical bull?

Well, uhhhh...I can! Maybe that is why he liked me so much.....

 

[SDFgirl]

I don't remember the exact moment, but it was very early in our relationship (for me). Probably around our 2nd or 3rd date.

I was your classic non-committment, picky, prefer-to-be-single kind of gal. But as soon as I met him, I knew he was different, and that I felt different. I was so head over heels that my family was like, "Who are you and what did you do with SDFgirl??!!"

Since then, I've fallen in love with him 483,873,018,195,933 more times! He is an amazing man and my best friend in the world!

 

[RadioFanatic]

Mine didn't happen right away but that was b/c I was stupid. I had just broken up with a bf to go to law school. In class we sat alphabetically and he sat behind me. I was having a blast being single and fancy free. I wasn't doing well in a class and he was so I asked him to help me study. After exams at the end of the fall semester, he asked me out and I said no.

That spring semester when we got back from break, he was very smart. He was always around (we had the same group of friends) and was cordial to me - but not the same and was flirtatious with everyone but me. And girls LOVED him. Think tall dark and handsome and sensitive type. I started getting VERY jealous. It made me realize how much I really liked him and even felt like I was falling for him. Finally, on April 17, 1995, I admitted to him I made a mistake and he sweetly asked me if he could kiss me. THAT made me fall fully right then and there and we've been together ever since.

 

[JESW]

Yes, I can! And funny thing is, it also has to do with a cat!

One day I was with dh2be at his parents house. They had an elderly cat and dh layed down on the floor with the cat and was so gentle and kind with how he talked to her and petted her - it just warmed my heart! I knew right then.

Today is the 21st anniversary of our first kiss!

Jill

 

[1Prince2Princesses]

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