When Did You Know He/She Was The One?

I was previously married for nearly 20 years, and had a girlfriend for 3 years. Both of them were the most unromantic people you can imagine. So when I was single, I joked that I was going to marry the first person, male or female, who bought me flowers.

NotFroofy came to visit me for a week and a half, then went off to visit another friend in the US. While she was with the other friend, she sent me a dozen roses. When she got back, I told her about my joking statement. Her immediate reaction was, "If I'd known, I would have bought you more flowers!"

When he stood up for me to my ex boyfriend. He will always have my back and that made me feel safe, something I never felt before. Also, on our first date (as on the other post) I couldn't stop looking at him, smiling.. it was something new and my other relationships were never like that. I also had butterflies so that was a sign because I never felt that before too.

@ Future Mrs. F- Keep the questions coming! lol Giving me something to do while at work

Neither of us can pinpoint a moment, or date, but I just always felt drawn to him for some reason. I also trusted him immediately, and had no reason too. I didn't have any reason to distrust him, but I don't blindly trust people.

When my coworker asked how our first date went, I told her he was kind of nerdy and not at all my type. As I walked away I told her, you watch, I'll marry this one. Ha.

I knew when I first saw him but denied letting myself like him because he was married. So I kept my distance and they got divorced and we got together.

I knew he was someone really special from the beginning. Possible TMI but funny story: my freshman roommate used to make out with guys all the time. she asked don't you ever just feel horny? I told her no, i really didn't get it. When I met FH, i called her to tell her I GET IT. lol.

anyway, the moment when i knew he was the one: I was pretty damaged when we met (years of all kinds of issues). Most poignantly, I had a recent (a couple months earlier) very traumatic encounter with a terrible guy, that I won't go into details about. He walked into my dorm room when I had just gotten off the phone with a close friend from back home who I was spilling to story to. I was a crying mess. He walked over and put his arms around me and said that it was going to be ok. I asked him how I could know that this would never happen again, and he told me that he would never let it EVER AGAIN. I believed him, I knew he meant it, and that was the first time someone made me feel safe. That was it for me.

Three days into dating we had a super deep conversation about purity and standards. I had done some reading before our first date and came upon the idea of not kissing until marriage and I found the idea growing on me and wondering, "would he really be that extreme?"

A week after that idea entered my head, we had this conversation about purity and standards and he said, rather bluntly, "I don't want to kiss you until marriage" and although initially I only heard "I don't want to kiss you" and was slightly offended, I quickly realized he had also said 'until marriage" and I knew he was the one. That a man would have so much respect for his future bride as to not want to kiss anyone else until there was a lifelong commitment... Well, simply put, I had never had ANY man treat me with that much love and respect so soon after dating.

And we couldn't be more joy and peace filled.

I knew he was the one when I realized that while I didn't need him in my life I wanted him in my life. I just found myself smiling every time I thought about him and being around him just gave me an overall sense of peace and well being.

When he jumped into the dumpster behind my apartment complex at 11pm on Memorial Day to sort through all the trash to try to find my $200 train pass that I had accidentally thrown away earlier in the day.

He was successful... How I have no idea.

When he told me his first name. As a little girl, I told myself that my husband's name would be Beau (I just liked it for some reason). The night we met, he shook my hand and told me his name was Beau...and that was it!

When we got through our first major disagreement. I knew we could make it through anything. A close second place moment is when I got really sick and he was incredible at caring for me. Literally carried me in the house. Maybe he was practicing carrying me over the threshold

We had been dating for almost a year prior to us actually becoming a couple. The day he asked me to be his girlfriend I literally cried. I was beyond happy that day. For some reason I felt like it was a proposal & while we have definitely had our share of downs we still made it through everything stronger than before. On that day I knew he was the one I wanted to spend my life with.

When we got together we kind of knew that it would have to be serious and longterm (we were friends,the same group and I am best friends with his sister and we lived together) but I probably knew that this was way way longterm was a few weeks after we got together.

He drove me to the airport and just as we pulled up. He said that he knows this is hard for me (I hadnt had a relationship since husband1 died so a v.long time) but that he wanted to say that he wouldnt push it and that he wouldnt expect anything. That it was all on me.

Think I realized at that point that I wanted it all with him. But that mainly you can have more than one person who 'fits'

For him to say that as a man of about 30. When I knew he was really wanting to settle down, get married, have kids. Shocked me.

I came back from that trip,walked into the kitchen and told him I was in love with him.

Once I knew he wasnt putting any pressure on I realised that he was wonderful

I dont believe in the 'one' Otherwise I would have to pick and I think it puts too much on fate rather than people.

I think maybe when he asked me out. He phrased it, "Lacey, will you go steady with me?" He's old-fashioned and a gentleman - exactly what I wanted. :-)

I knew it on our third date, but it was totally reaffirmed when I got really sick with asthmatic bronchitis and got rushed to the ER. He was in Louisiana working at the time, about nine hours away. He made it to the hospital in something crazy, like 6 or 7 hours and told me I was beautiful while I was hooked up to all these machines and had tubes in my nose. I was terrified and he totally soothed me.

On our first date I knew that I wanted to get serious with FH and I kept thinking "I want this guy to be my boyfriend" a few weeks later it just kinda happened, one day I was thinking about us and I knew I wanted to marry him. I would have married him then if he'd asked

The first time I actually laid eyes on him. We met on eharmony, and I wasn't all that into communicating with him. I was dating other people and would respond to a communication in between dates with other guys. I was dating one guy and when he didn't show to help me move as promised I decided I was done and let him know. A minute later my phone buzzed, and I thought it was a text from the jerk. it was an email from eharmony saying FH sent me a "nudge". I told my friend who was right there and she said "it's Fate." We emailed, then talked on the phone the next day. He was such a geek I decided I wasn't going to talk to him again. But something kept bringing me back. We talked everyday, I kept refusing to go out with him, then finally made a date, then canceled, but kept feeling drawn back to him. I FINALLY agreed to go out with him and met him at the movie theater. As soon as I saw him walk up to me I knew. The next day he told me that one day he was going to make me his wife.

I didn't kno, it just happened overtime

I think I knew deep down he was the one very early on but I have serious commitment issues so I didn't want to admit it. I only realized he was the one when something terrible happened to my grandfather and his wife - my mom called me to tell me as i was on the way back from an athletic event at college and I just broke down in tears and the only person I wanted to call was him. He picked me up from the bus stop and I probably cried on his shoulder for 2 days straight and he never every complained. He made me dinner, watched whatever movie I wanted and never once mentioned that maybe I should go to class/do some homework (which I'm sure was REALLY tough for him, lol). Also he made me go to therapy, in a non-judgemental way - some people might not think that is good - but without him I probably never would have gone to talk about all of my family issues. He knew I needed it an got stubborn me to actually go! I would never have let someone talk me in to that before I met him...

FH tried to get me on a date for about a year. I wasn't interested he had baggage and I told myself I was too young to deal with all of it. I finally gave in & went on a date with him. It was the best time I have ever had. He was nothing what I expected. I knew right then and there he was my bestfriend we have been inseparable since. We moved in together a month later.

We met on eharmony, and once we started texting and talking about meeting i remember he said something funny like, 'if i touch your arm, you'll know i like you.'

we met at a 3rd of july bbq at my mom's house. we were standing around talking to my mom and some of our friends and he just looked at me, smiled, reached over and touched my arm. it's so stupid but that was the moment.

later that night, our small town put on their fireworks display. so, we had fireworks on our first date. i remember saying goodbye to him at the end of the night and we both just looked at each other and were like, 'where did you come from?!' when i got home, i called one of my best friends and was like, 'i think i'm going to marry him.'

we've been inseparable ever since.