So how could you tell that your (now) BF/DH was interested?

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I mean before he actually told you or asked you out. When did you get that knowing feeling that he is interested more than fleetingly?

Just want to hear some nice stories about the start of relationships.

You're just saying that because I'm not wearing a bra..

That's not what Margaret Hale would say.

Party - our eyes met across a crowded room etc. He was so gorgeous and sexy I assumed he was a player & wouldn't date him for about 6 months. We saw each other all the time as 'friends'. He pursued me and tried to prove himself until I gave in.

He once turned up on his motorbike in the square I was living and phoned me to see if he could come up. He asked me if I thought he was stalking him and I said 'Yeah' and he said 'Well you're right'.

He asked me to marry him after about a month, I did eventually.

MargaretHale , I really enjoyed that!!

When he started dancing with me. I am a sucker for a man that likes to dance.
He told me, he saw me walk in and thought to himself 'no chance'.
I took him home.

aw I just love these stories!
just shows that initiative does pay off sometimes! and the other way rounds - playing hard to get, Twinkle!
51, well yes, they ar usually very comfortable with their body, the dancers so that bodes well for other things too! unlesss you meant it was a romantic waltz or something and you are a big romantic! well prob not since you ve taken him home - was probably a sexy dance!

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He told my mate he was going to take me home (polite) that night. He did.

We married 2 years later.

He always stopped for a chat when we bumped into each other, and he said yes when I asked him out .

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He would come and see me when he really didn't need to. He was always offering to help me with various things and do little things for me. And he flirted rather unsubtlety.

He was always trying to catch my eye or look my way. I burnt up and got short of breath and shaky whenever I was near him. At this time I knew next to nothing about him but the physical response to being near him was so strong I had to do something about it for my own health and sanity! Next week marks 9 years since our first date.

I was 18 he was 25 divorced his ex had affair, he was shy we worked together he licked me in a walk in freezer and I was defrosting chest freezer and cleaning it out on the shop floor he has upped me in that freezer head first only helped me if I agreed to go out with him.
25 years later married 23 and 2 kids!!
Love of my life glad for the freezer

oh God, isthat, that's blackmail! scaring you into a date, well hope he's never pulled a stunt like that again!
Fermin, amazing thing is, he must have noticed all this but still not made a move until you did! was he very shy?
Come, yes that was easy and classic - so nice.

Could be called blackmail but i fancied the pants off him so was open to it anyway and no he's the quiet one if us both.

We were teenagers (15 and 17). We hung out in the same group of things and gradually started spending more time together than then one night we were lying in the grass in my back garden and we kissed

Jesus when you put it like that it sounds great, haha! But it didn't last...that time.

About 8 years later we drank 3 bottles of wine together and he came to stay over at my house. Rest is history

Group of things? Group of friends!

My lovely DP is bloody crap with women, we were friends for a good ten years and had known each other far longer than that before we finally got together. A couple of times on the way back from the pub when I was visiting home we ended up drunkenly holding hands. And we had one 'was that a date?' moment where we went to the cinema together and he paid for my lunch (it was only nandos, so nothing fancy!), but told me he had a voucher.

Ironically, it was months later and just after I'd completely given up on him, figured it was all in my head and decided he probably just liked me as a friend, he FINALLY asked me out to dinner. I said yes, and overall have come to the conclusion that he had no confidence and needed me to string up a neon flashing sign that said 'I bloody well fancy you'!!

Yes, he was quite shy. Even when I made the move and asked him out for a drink, he convinced himself that it was just as friends!

Gave me his last rolo! Took my number, gave me 3 different numbers to call him on, phoned when he said he would ( 3 days after meeting) to arrange meeting up the following weekend. Always kept his word, no last minute cancellations. 20 years on and he'd still give me his last chocolate, or his coat if I was cold. He showed his caring nature right away.

On our first date my now dh took me ice skating he stopped and bought me gloves. I always caught him looking at me and I made him so nervous at the start lol he waited months b4 we dtd. His mum said he was always a serious person really solemn looking to he met me he much more confident happier. Even now he puts me and kids first my Mr perfect

God just noticed hubby locked me in freezer not licked me

isthat, yes I laughed at the typo! licking anything in the freezer is dangerous!
3perfect, has he asked you out without you showing much interest? still your 4 months patience got rewarded! I like serious men, they tend to be more romantic (I mean kind and serious).

It was at a uni Christmas dance, black tie and posh frocks. I was wearing a ready made bow tie that I'd pinched from a friend. DH removed it and tied his own proper bow tie around my neck.

I invited him back for coffee and we talked and kissed all night.

Valancy, ouch talk about patience! I take it you dated others too in those 10yrs!
Some posters, like Delphi get the nice straight-forward, caring, no confidence issues men - I do wonder is this sheer luck or are they themselves kind, caring, confident etc women who give exactly the right vibes? I'd love to attract a man like that but so far its never been plain sailing. Just what a world of difference to the most women's turmoil in dating. Great though, Delphi, 20yrs! I bet your parents had a good marriage too.

I met DP while doing National Novel Writing Month. It was my first year so when I went to the group write-in, I felt way out of my depth (combination of ex being a twat, and MH issues). Dropped my stuff off and went outside for a cigarette to calm nerves and he followed me to see if I was okay.

He left after a while but came back before I left (I found out that he left because he had one too many naughty thoughts about me).

He then wrote sex stories to win me over