How did you know he was the one?

[MrsDaveGrohl78]

Hi all, nice post alert!

I've fallen in love, for the first time in 16 years I'm truly happy and it's lovely...

Just want to start a nice thread on here... when and how did you know your partner/husband was the one?

He was as weird as me. He liked things I liked that no one else had heard of or turned their nose up at. He calms me down and stopped me being an insane crazy person. He really really makes me laugh.

However the specific moment I knew was when a song came on the radio in my car and we both instantly did a duet in funny voices. I had never done that in front of anyone before.

The air felt different around him. He didn’t seem other to me- he felt like he was already family. He talked to me like he was communicating with the real me- not whatever he could see or whatever I was trying to be. I have anxiety and there is often a film between me and the world but he, his turn of phrase and his voice were effortlessly in sharp focus.

Sadly I am not with him any more but I will never forget how at home I felt when I first met him.

Oh @ladamanera that just made me cry... why are you no longer together?

‘He’s as weird as me, whatever souls are made of, ours are the same’. This is how I describe my dp.

I was with my ex at the time I met my now partner, it just struck me out of nowhere, my relationship was already on the downfall (very controlling nature), and I couldn’t get him out of my head, I left my ex, my partner was there for me the entire time, not even flirting with me he just wanted me to be okay, and then we blossomed. Everything just felt so right, suddenly I was free and this person wanted me to be free, he wanted me to do anything I pleased, we were both very spontaneous and adventured up and down the country constantly. I was so excited to see him every time, boy the amount of overtime we both did just to see each other. We’d quickly drive from home to work just to see each other on each other’s breaks. I’d never been so happy. He reminded me what fun was, I’ve never laughed as much as I do with him, and it’s always that hard, uncontrollable laughing.

Now we have a beautiful little girl and a home, my life completely flipped in such a short matter of time, I never saw it coming but I couldn’t have planned it any better.

I’m still super excited to see him even when he comes in at 6am from work, like a little puppy 😂

It’s so weird how you think you’re in love in past relationships and then when you find the one you realise that was nothing compared to this.

I knew when I realised that being with him felt like putting on a comfortable pair of slippers when you get home after an evening in uncomfortable high heels. That probably sounds so boring but it's not, it was such a lovely safe feeling after the relationship I'd been in previously. I knew I'd met a man who'd never let me down, and he hasn't in over 30 years

I dropped him off at the airport to go live in another country. I sobbed all the way home in terror that we wouldn't survive living apart. I realised then I had to have him in my life.

That was 20 years and 2 children ago and I was right. I had to have him in my life, and I still do.

I dropped him off at the airport to go live in another country. I sobbed all the way home in terror that we wouldn't survive living apart. I realised then I had to have him in my life.

That was 20 years and 2 children ago and I was right. I had to have him in my life, and I still do.

My vagina told me he was the one, my brain was in coma mode at the time.
He wasn't the one...we are now divorced.

The moment I met him. We'd exchanged messages beforehand (virtually introduced via a shared hobby) and had arranged to meet up as friends with no agenda beyond that. But when he smiled at me I felt something physically click into place in my chest and I looked at him and just thought "oh, there you are, now everything makes sense". And I just knew he felt the same. It was magical.

I was a total cynic before that day and thought love at first sight was utter bullshit. Still can't quite believe I was lucky enough to have this experience.

When we were planning our first date (chatted online a lot first after meeting in RL) and it was in such detail I knew he was a great match for me (also a great planner). Then he ensured he got me some wine, cooked my favourite meal whilst I just sat and chatted to him and didn't have to so anything. It was also so free and easy and we had both haf the thought that we were the female/male equivalent of each other. He also wanted to hold me that first night. I'd never been held quite like it. We were utterly infactuated from that point and it just grew. Absolutely amazing feeling.

I love these stories!!! 🥰

My love came as a surprise after three years of dating. It was a slowburn. A culmination of small acts of service. Examples,
He built my flat pack furniture
He rescued a bird trapped in a fishing net
He cleaned my apartment while I was doing exams
He fixed my bike

Stuff like that.

I love him so much. 15 years, three kids later.

He is consistent, honest, lets me be myself, offers me stability, he has funny quirks too, we laugh together, we have the same values.

We never need to have deep discussions, we just roll along together happily.

No drama🙂

An incredible feeling of being comfortable with each other. We met at work but took a while to get together. After a fairly drunken work night out me met for lunch, as we walked out of the door we both reached out to hold hands.

He travelled 7 hours on a national express coach to see me for 2 hours and then travelled back again on his only day off. I remember standing in the bus station in the rain waving him off and hoping to god that we could find a way to make it work. We did.
We just get each other in every way.

A lovely man also at the bus station popped a brolly over my head that day aswell bless him.

@Abouttimemum that's amazing!!!