Is it possible to just know someone is "the one" almost immediately?

[NataliePortman]

I have just started seeing someone and after the first date I felt like when I looked at his face I just knew it was going to be the face I looked at every day forever.

I'm just wondering if anyone has experienced a feeling like that and if it turned out to be true?

I have to say everything is going very well, and I think he has had the same thunderbolt. It doesn't appear to be purely physical because he's been working away a few weeks now and we talk every day for hours and we just "get on".

I'm not a teenager, I'm a grown woman of 35 who's been around and while I have had butterflies and electricity and all those sorts of feelings before a few times; with this man, I am having this very strange feeling.

When I look at his face, it just feels like home. Like I just know and was wondering if anyone has ever had that before. It's so strange and I wondered if I am being silly or if this sort of thing is sometimes real.

Yes, I had/have it with OH but we are still taking it pretty slowly as we have DCs, and other various circumstances that are pretty challenging.

Still feels the same after nearly a year.

Yes, with my DH. I knew I would marry him by the second date ( he asked me the next day) It wasn't all excitement and butterflies, but as you say, more like coming home. We've been married 15 years.

yes within an hour of meeting, also married 15 years, also the coming home thing mixed with some rampant lust!Saw each other only weekends for first 2 years

Yes. It happened to me in my mid-30s too!

Oooh great! It's bananas. I'm not an impulsive person and he's not perfect but it just feels so natural, easy and like there's no question we're a couple. We both keep saying how odd it is. But really nice too!

And yes on the rampant lust. I can't think of anything else!

DH and I were inseparable within hours of meeting. We were both 19. Now 34 and it's no different.

Yes. We both knew. He even said 'I love you' after our third date.

Well I might just let go and enjoy it then!

Yes,I knew instantly with Dh,I was 22 and I'm 43 now and we've been together all that time. It was proper thunder bolt lust

Yep, me too. Married 4 years now.

I knew with DH. Scared the life out of me because I thought I was crazy to think that so soon. He knew too, proposed after five months. We've been married 8 years now :)

Yes. It was instant.

I knew I would marry DW the moment we met. It wasn't breathless love but more of a logical conclusion. I didn't tell her or make any move to 'court her'. In fact DW hated me and she went out with someone else briefly. I still knew we would get married though. Its 25 years this year.

We have a female friend who felt the same about her husband.

That's all good. I met him at a wedding, and only talked to him for perhaps five minutes (thought he was gorgeous) but he added me on Facebook the next day and I sent him a message with my number to add me on Whatsapp.

10 seconds after that, the phone rang and it was him. I was sort of flustered and said I wasn't expecting him to phone me up and he said he wished he'd thought it through for longer himself because he'd not planned out what to say. We ended up talking for three hours and it felt like 10 minutes.

First date (he drove 2.5 hours for that) and we've both told all our friends about each other, and our families and he's shown my photo to his Mum.

We're laughing about how sad we are. Neither of us have ever behaved like this before. He makes me laugh so much I've actually spat out my drink a few times.

So glad to hear there's a chance it might be real or come to something. Bugger it, for once in my life I might just jump in at the deep end and see what happens.

Awwww, that coming home feeling describes it perfectly. My DH said as soon as he saw me he knew I would be his wife. I was similarly bowled over but assumed he was out of my league.
Enjoy it OP!

Yeah, happened a few years ago. He was my best friend, we met up one time alone and...

I hope my relationship is as successful as some of you guys. Rocky as fuck at the minute.

Yes.

Yes.

It's no guarantee of a happy lasting relationship, though.

I had a friend who had that moment of "just knowing". He did finally dump his fiancee, but not for the friend (who he'd been stringing all along) - for another girlfriend who was waiting in the wings. She finally extricated herself and married someone else (seems to be very happy!)

I had another friend who "just knew", but didn't know that he was going to turn out very abusive.

It's a wonderful start to a relationship, but comes with no guarantees about the quality of the other person's personality...

Yes happened here too. I walked into the bar and saw him across a crowded room and instantly knew in my gut that this was the man I'd marry.

He proposed 3 weeks later and we've been married for 7 years so far. No regrets :) though everyone told us we were nuts.

You can't know. But you definitely can think you know - and you might be right! But you can't know.

Yes, on the first night I was with DH,
I felt like I had "come home". Been together 20 years and have 3 DC.

Yes. I didn't tell him though, he'd have thought I was nuts. We've been together 7 years, married for 4.

Possibly.

I've just met someone and he is basically my ideal man. The first time I met him (I'd seen photos, which as it turned out were fairly unflattering) I remember thinking 'omg, he's gorgeous'. And then he was also clever, and witty, and just bloody perfect. I don't know if I believe in 'the one' but I think he's certainly the best match for me I have ever met.