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When did you know he was 'The One'?

53 replies

DaisyBug · 17/08/2012 16:36

How and when did you know your partner was 'The One'? Just curious.

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ImperialBlether · 17/08/2012 19:40

OK so misogynistic, according to the dictionary, means "reflecting or exhibiting hatred, dislike, mistrust, or mistreatment of women."

How the hell is knowing you've met the person for you misogynistic? It's a question you could ask anyone, gay, straight, male or female.

RockinD · 17/08/2012 19:45

We'd been going out about six weeks. We were in the car driving back from visiting his friends and I realised that for the first time ever, I could not imagine how this relationship would end. There was nothing that I was brushing under the carpet, nothing that I was telling myself didn't matter, nothing to excuse.

Married 8 years now.

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Bunbaker · 17/08/2012 19:48

Instantly. We met in 1978 and are still together Smile

Badvoc · 17/08/2012 19:48

"the one I could possibly tolerate"
Love it :)

wordfactory · 17/08/2012 19:49

We kept meeting unexpetedly. At a ball. A mutual friend's wedding. And even at a Full Moon party in Thailand.

Each time we knew we clicked but the circumstances weren't right. He had a GF, or I had a BF. Or one of us was heading elsewhere.

It took a year for us to accept that the universe had plans.

ModreB · 17/08/2012 19:51

The minute I laid eyes on him, before we had even spoken. It took him a bit longer, about 30 minutes. 26 years on, we are still very happy.

scottishmummy · 17/08/2012 19:56

we talked,we laughed,we clicked
met at 18
still together

Annunziata · 17/08/2012 20:06

Gorgeous sunny day (in 1980s Glasgow it was a rarity!) lying in the park sunbathing. Had known him forever, been going out 3 years then. Now 23 years married and very happy.

This thread has made me smile Thanks

chirpchirp · 17/08/2012 20:25

Within about two hours. My friend brought his brother along to a house party. We got chatting, I got smitten. Went to the kitchen to get us some drinks and told my friend that I was going to marry his brother one day. It's now 10 years later and we've just celebrated our third wedding anniversary.

booksandchoc · 17/08/2012 20:29

When my heart broke when I got on a plane to australia to go back-packing. Planned before we got together, he was going to come out 10 months later to join me for my last month, ended up quitting college, working like a maniac and joined me 10 weeks later.

Abitwobblynow · 17/08/2012 21:36

Instantly but I was deluded

amillionyears · 17/08/2012 21:40

ooh Abitwobblynow.Thats sort of broken the romance of it all.Soemhow,I thought if both had instant attraction,then it stayed that way.

Plokahontas · 17/08/2012 21:42

I knew he was the one when he called me back after dropping me off on our second date to say that he regretted not kissing me and would I come back down for a kiss?
6 years on, I have just spawned his clone and love him more than ever Grin

Gay40 · 17/08/2012 21:48

spawned his clone made me laugh lots

bubalou · 17/08/2012 21:50

He told me I was beautiful when he woke up next to me 1 morning & I wasn't wearing makeup! I knew then he was a keeper.

Grin
Yama · 17/08/2012 22:14

Don't laugh but in my mid 20's I realised I had this vision in my head of a handsome, bespectacled, super intelligent chap with a nice smile.

I met a handsome, bespectacled chap with a nice smile and thought I'd found him. But he wasn't intelligent so I ended it.

Fast forward a bit and I bumped into handsome, bespectacled, super intelligent chap with a nice smile and sexy as fuck to boot. And he wants me in all my outspoken feminist ways. A total find.

onemorebite · 17/08/2012 23:02

When he did a brilliant James Brown impression (think it was Sex Machine) in my living room...

ps. he is white!

Inneedofbrandy · 17/08/2012 23:26

The Husband store

You may vist the husband store only once, there are 6 floors and the values of the products increase on every floor.

The shopper may choose any item on any floor but once up can not go back down.

A woman goes into the store, on the first floor the sign on the door reads, men who have good jobs

thats nice she thinks but I want more.

Floor two, Men who have good jobs and love kids

shes intrigued but continues to the third floor, Men who have good jobs and love kids and are extremly handsome

Wow she thinks but feels compelled to keep going.

Floor 4, Men who have good jobs and love kids and are extremly handsome, and help equally with housework

It cannot get better then this she exclaims, or can it the voice in her head says.

Floor 5 *Men who have good jobs and love kids and are extremly handsome, and help equally with housework and have a great sense of humour.

Having found what shes looking for she's tempted to stay, but something prompts her to the 6th floor.

Floor 6 you are vistor 42,215,602 there are no men on this floor, this floor only exists to prove woman are impossible to please.

To avoid gender bias the shop owner opened a wifes store opposite, no man ever got past floor 3.

floranora · 17/08/2012 23:34

we met online, I knew the moment i saw him that he was the one! been together 4 yrs

rhondajean · 17/08/2012 23:56

I knew I loved him after about a month.

I knew he was o be hung onto after a couple of weeks when he took care of me in ways no one else ever had.

I knew he wouldn't leave me or hurt me and we would be together forever after about a decade.

I learn slowly at times, but he is worth it.

Luckystar96 · 18/08/2012 00:08

I was just wondering, why are you asking the question?? I admit I knew almost immediately DH was special. However, I was blinded by passion and sometimes wish I'd taken note of the warning signs that he was going to be a nightmare to live with some of the time . We've had some serious problems recently (21yrs down the line) and half of me wishes I'd waited for someone I'd be more compatible with. But lust/love is intoxicating isn't it?

MrsApplepants · 18/08/2012 00:19

The moment we made eye contact. Corny but true! We've been happily married for years.

uselfullife · 18/08/2012 00:25

I didn't
He wasn't
Still looking

DaisyBug · 18/08/2012 02:02

I was just wondering, why are you asking the question??

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Kiwiinkits · 18/08/2012 03:25

I knew after three years of dating, when he came to live in Italy where I was doing my master's. He was 40 and had a big enough sense of adventure to chase me half way round the world. I knew 100% he was the one the instant he proposed, still a bit unsure until that point tbh. Now after three years of marriage and two kids I love him more than life itself. He is an awesome hubnd and dad.

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