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AIBU?

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aibu to ask what you most romantic moment was

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onceamai · 16/04/2011 18:03

Inspired by the Paris thread, in a previous life it was the most romantic weekend imaginable in Paris with an SO I loved hugely at the time and was a whirl wind of galleries and smart restaurants, in this life it was DH's proposal, 21 summers ago, in the Rose Garden at the Hurlingam Ball, sipping champage.

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worraliberty · 16/04/2011 18:04

How many lives have you had?

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onceamai · 16/04/2011 18:06

Just the pre DH one

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jojowest · 16/04/2011 18:10

im lucky, OH is always giving me nice surprises

he took me to paris for my 40th first class on the eurostar, i took him to antigua for his 50th

before we were married he used to get tickets for music concerts he knew i would like, last year he turned up out of the blue with tickets for Simply Red - we've been married 27 years now and he still does it :)

MaisyMooCow · 16/04/2011 18:11

I love threads like this, reinforcing that romance is still alive and kicking

worraliberty · 16/04/2011 18:13

Yes until the feminists come and beat it to death

CheerfulYank · 16/04/2011 18:13

I met DH in a college poetry class. We were both with other people, but I always thought he was fantastic.

About four years later I saw him at the bar and shoved my number in his shirt pocket and demanded that he call me. (Subtle, no?) He did, and we went out for coffee. He was (is, really) quite shy and serious, but I said something funny and he gave me the biggest, sweetest smile. I looked at him, smiling, and knew beyond any doubt that I was going to marry that man.

And so I did. :)

activate · 16/04/2011 18:15

the day DP told me he didn't care how difficult it was since my diagnosis but that every single second of life with me was worth it including when I flipp out at him

clairefromsteps · 16/04/2011 18:17

My now-DH, then just-a-mate, came out to see me for a two week holiday when I was working in Sydney. He gave me a full-on snog when I picked him up at the airport and the rest was history. We had our first date at Sydney Opera House and he proposed at the end of his holiday.

I'm looking over at him now, mouth agape and snoring slightly on the sofa in front of Ice Age with the kids. Bless.

theoldtrout01876 · 16/04/2011 18:17

When he made me an origami flower out of the silver paper in his cigarette packet :o.My very Dh isnt big on romance but then neither am I.Though I still have that wee flower after 10 years

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onceamai · 16/04/2011 18:25

Oh that's sweet.

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sethstarkaddersmackerel · 16/04/2011 18:25

I think you have some funny ideas about feminism Worraliberty. Unless lots of people start coming in and saying 'oh yes, it was when dh dragged me back to his cave by the hair', in which case a feminist raid on the thread will be organised.

a walk on the clifftop at Salcombe after we'd sailed in through a fog the day before and spent the night being very battered by wind and rain in the harbour.
I considered proposing to dh at that point but didn't, just in case he said no which would have spoilt the moment.

MotherMucca · 16/04/2011 18:25

My (now) ex and I had our first row; I flounced off and, on my return, found that he had painted a beautiful watercolour portrait of me.

A different ex and I went to Kew gardens to see a Chihuly glass exhibition. It was evening, raining and the glass was lit up and it was dreamy. I was feeling all soft and fluffy anyway, then he told me how beautiful I looked in the rain. The same ex and I went to an art exhibition in Paris. It was December and snowing. I thought it was wonderfully romantic - he whined about his ears being cold.

I love this, keep the romance coming...

MotherMucca · 16/04/2011 18:28

P.S. I think I am a feminist and a romantic.

unsurevalentine · 16/04/2011 18:30

Before OH went to sea for 5 months he hid money for my (not his) kids to buy me a mothers day gift, sprayed my pillow and dressing gown with his aftershave and put 2 series of Glee on my hard drive, and said when he gets back he'll marry me even though he has been adamant he will never marry again

brownsauce · 16/04/2011 18:37

My husband wrote 'Marry me' on the window of our hotel room in Paris, so when I went for my bath, the window steamed up and I could read the message. I cried a LOT!

beesimo · 16/04/2011 18:38

The first time I saw my husband we locked eyes over a butchers shop counter as I sold him a pork pie, he was in his working clothes and I was in my strippy pinny. He was 24 massive build face like a old potato and I was 16 a 'good girl' with a face like a flower.

A week later he came over to me in the Black Bull wearing his brothers good suit said his name asked me mine.

Then he took my hand and said 'well lass here's how it is I'm yours your mine and thats it' and do you know what OP nearly 30 years later it still is.

sprinklingsparkles · 16/04/2011 18:40

The best i can hope for is to be taken out to dinner apparently.

But he will text me if im ill when he's at work, phones me everyday to see how i am, and helps me pick up the pieces of my sisters fuck ups without hesitation and moaning.

All that means more than being taken to dinner

MaisyMooCow · 16/04/2011 18:41

Oh brownsauce that's so lovely. Think I might cry too!

nolita · 16/04/2011 18:43

possibly not 'romantic' as such, but: I'm emetophobic. We were on a particularly nasty channel crossing, almost everyone was sick. I buried my head in DP's chest and pretended i was dead elsewhere. He told me that, if i wanted to, i could be sick in his lap so i didn't have to lift my head up and see the vommage.

Luckily I have a stomach of steel

Now we take the tunnel.

collision · 16/04/2011 18:44

When DH proposed to me on a bench on a high hill top in Sirmione, Lake Garda, at night with the twinkly lights................

I need to remind him of that as I luuuuuuuurve romance.

brownsauce · 16/04/2011 18:47

maisymoocow I didn't rub it off the window either so some unlucky bugger was going to get a shock the next weekend when their girlfriend went in the shower!

MaisyMooCow · 16/04/2011 18:50

brownsauce Brillant!

somebodysfool · 16/04/2011 18:57

Two things for various reasons we got married quite quickly a year after meeting so never got engaged. On our first anniversary he bought me an engagement ring which was really sweet. The second costs nothing but means so much and he still does it from time to time. Sometimes when he has a bath/shower he writes I love my beautiful wife or similar on the mirror which re-appears when I have a shower and it steams up.

somebodysfool · 16/04/2011 18:58

Oh didn't realise there was another steaming window/mirror man they have obviously been sharing tips ; )

specialmagiclady · 16/04/2011 19:19

I love the butcher one.

My husband sent me a Valentine's magician once. To my office. Romantic AND humiliating.

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