Have you ever had a “Wow! I want to/am going to marry this person” moment?

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Just as the title says really. I haven’t had one myself but interested in reading others.

Yes! One was a real limerence type thing and the relationship was very short lived. I think I was looking for my next "big love" while still getting over the last one.

The other time was when I met someone off Tinder who didn't flirt with me, chatted to me about football via private message and shared a massive burrito with me. My kind of guy. He came over like someone who I could play guitar with, chat about Liverpool FC with and challenge to a YouTube sing off. Love wasn't something I was really looking for at this point. More the experience of meeting new people.

I felt like I'd met my best friend instantly and it became love over the next couple of months in a very organic and sweet way.

The moment for me was on our first date when he started talking about his family and I could see the warmth in his face and eyes shining out of him. He became absolutely beautiful to me in that moment.

3.5 years later, we're still together and saving up to buy our first flat. He's a very unique and sweet man and I still have to pinch myself sometimes that I get to wake up next to him.

Yes when we had been together a couple of weeks I just knew. I liked him from first sight but every time I saw him he was growing and growing on me and I'd never felt as strongly about anyone else.

Yes - and we are still married and going strong 30 years later.

We met in a pub, got talking and through a mutual friend I managed to set up a second date. We spent that night talking through to 4 am. Two days later he told me of the weirdest dream he had that we were married. I asked him what was weird about that?

We drive each other up the wall sometimes, but he is the only man I could ever spend my life with. It's not all hearts and roses, just the day to day monotony, but knowing there is nothing we could not say to one another and knowing that we will always have one another's back is everything.

Yes. With DH on our first date. 16 years later we are still together.

Yes, the night my DH had our first date, I knew he was "The one" we've been together 16 years. We just belong together I can't explain it.

I did with my husband

I met my husband just under 30 years ago now, on a blind date arranged by some mutual friends. When I got home my flatmate excitedly asked "So, what was he like then?" I replied "Oh he was ok. I'll probably marry him." And I did.

Yes, when I first started seeing dh. Nice to be reminded of it!

My mum walked into a room and saw my Dad and literally fell in love. She then spoke to him and thought he was am idiot as he was trying to impress her! Any happily (in the main) married for 52 years. On the other hand when I first saw DH l randomly thought "jesus he looks annoying and unattractive" and had an argument later that night. Been together over 20 years!

Yes I did, I loved him the first moment I saw him. Perhaps you can say it was list because I didn’t know him at that point... but something in my world shifted at that moment and I knew it. We’re very happily married now with a family and I remember that first meeting very fondly. People will always say they don’t believe in love at first sight but I experienced it for myself

Yes - after the second date I went home and told my flatmates he was the guy I was going to marry (and I really believed it). We’ve been together for 7 years and married for 3.

I met my DH in a very cheesy nightclub. I went out with flatmates reluctantly as was just home from holiday and had been massively delayed so was very tired.
One of his friends was chatting me up but i couldn't stop looking at him! We had our first proper date a few days later and I told my flatmate that I was going to marry him.
We've been together 27 years, married for 23 and I still adore him.
Of course that doesn't mean I couldn't cheerfully murder him regularly but he feels like home and i couldn't imagine life without him.

Only once and that was with DH.
I had been sitting reading, got up to go to the kitchen and remember thinking ,"oh its him".
We had been together a couple of weeks, I was surprised because I knew him before, we drank in the same pub, and I had no notion on him at all 😂.
We married within a year and have been together 36 years next week.

Yes I did. I tripped up the stairs and ripped my new skirt on our 4th date . He spent the next hour sewing it up for me so I wouldn’t have to go home on the tube with a ripped skirt.
It took him a further 7 years to feel the same way.
And now we’re getting divorced

Yes. 40 years in the autumn since we met. I liked him then. A few weeks later group of us went out for a drink and in the course of the evening I just knew. Engaged a few weeks later. Good marriage. He is wonderful.

Yep. Saw him sat on a log at a country show. Still can remember it as clear as ever. Sadly after 19 years he decided it was over.

These were (mostly) nice to read, thanks. Hoping that soon I’ll be able to bump it with a contribution of my own

Yes, I did. A few months into dating. We’re now married almost 30 years

When DH and I had DD she was a whingy, colicky little thing and NEVER slept. I sat and watched DH pace the house with her in his arms singing to her early hours one night and looking at his head bent over hers, I thought this is it, that’s why I love him.

The sentimental moment was ruined however once he turned round as his bed shorts had a massive hole in them and his balls were hanging out.

Such is life.

Not really.
But I married him and it was the best decision ever!

Yup.
Met DH online and when I saw his photo, my heart jumped and a little voice inside my head said: this is your future husband.

We got married 6 months later.

Yes...with my now DH. Thankfully he felt it too.
That was 8 years ago. We bought a house, got married and pregnant within a year.

Yes. I thought it was all going to work out perfectly. Sadly it didn't

Yes with my DH. I knew him vaguely but we reconnected 2 years ago and I ‘knew’ almost straight away. I remember telling myself to play it cool and not assume that it was real, I barely knew him, rebound etc. He apparently said the same but then very sweetly blurted out (after a month or so) did I think that I would be his girlfriend and maybe live with him perhaps? He proposed 6 mths later

I think this thread is going to turn up a mix of experiences op because those of us who had less than ideal upbringings will tend to have those 'wow' moments with unsuitable men (because that's what feels familiar and therefore 'safe') whereas those who had happy childhoods will get "that feeling" with someone compatible. Generally speaking.