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Poll- When did you know

I was listening to the radio and they were talking about when did you know that yh was the one.  I think I realized it after 6 months of dating.  We didn't get engaged until we were dating for 5 years.  ( We were in school)  .  When did you know he was the one?
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Re: Poll- When did you know

  • The minute I saw him. 
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  • i guess i knew before we even started dating LOL. we were friends, and i had said if i ever got married, it would be to him. 
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  • I'm  still not sure. lol

    I have no idea. I think after we went to a bar w/friends and he walked me up to my condo,came in for a minute,said good night but didn't kiss me. I was so confused and pissed off by it that it made me want to be with him even more. Does that mean he was the one? Not really.

     Maybe after we were living together for 1 month and both had a horrible stomach bug. If you still like each other after seeing each other like that you're probably meant to be.

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  • I knew before our first date, although we'd known one another for nearly 25 years (went to HS together) and had run into one another on a few occasions in the two years before our first date.  We talked and texted like teenagers for almost a month before we actually went out (all day/night, every day/night like junkies!).  We both knew it was going to be a game changing date in that it was going to be the last "first date" for either of us.
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  • we both knew right from the start. 
  • MH says he knew before we even started dating. We were friends for a year before I finally agreed to go out with him. I can't pin down a moment or action that made me know he was the one. After awhile I just couldn't imagine my life without him.
  • about 6 months after we started dating (which was about 5 years after we met and a year after we "re-met".  until then i thought he was a rebound relationship.

     

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  • We kinda dated for a few months in 2000. It was on, it was off, it was casual. Around Christmas time we got into a HUGE fight and stopped talking. It was ugly. I cried every day for 3 months. EVERY.DAY. I barely knew him. I had been with my previous boyfriend for nearly 10 years at that point and I didn't feel even half as sad when we broke up as I did about not talking to J anymore.

    The 1st time my sister talked me into going out (seriously, like 3.5 months later) he walked into our local bar and that was it. There was just, a look. I think we both knew. We've been together ever since. Big Smile


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  • we were together all through high school, never ever had a fight or a momentary break up (you know how 'relationships' are in high school LOL!).

    senior year, when we were going away to separate colleges, it didnt even occur to us to break up like the rest of the couples going away to separate colleges were. it didnt even occur to us that it would be hard, that we would be tempted... it was just 'ok, ill see you in two weeks. ill come visit you, and then you come visit me'.

    when one of his friends asked him if we would be breaking up bc of college, he said 'why would we break up?' in the most innocent, sincere demeanor.

    cheesy as it is, and impossible as it might sound, i knew then.

  • I knew when I met him, don't ask me how I just knew he was the right one.  Him on the other hand....he probably knew but it took him awhile.  We were together for almost a year and then split the summer before he went away to college.  (I was a freshman in college already, he was a grade behind me since he was born after the cutoff). He was the one who ended things saying that the "distance would not have worked". (we also had a huge fight over something his nosy Aunt did and he pretty much took his family's side over me of course which added fuel to the fire but he gave the other reason of distance instead as his reason).

    I was heartbroken and knew it was not right but as hard as it was I tried to let it go and move on.  Dated for a while and nothing came of it .  A year after that he called me and wanted to meet up for a coffee.  We began talking again and I think I knew where it was headed.  We were both still single. He said that ending things was the stupidest thing he ever did; he did it because he was a coward, didn't expect me to give him another chance but he realized I was the one he was supposed to be with and hoped we'd get back together again.  Funny thing was all of our friends pretty much knew we were supposed to be together and would tell me someday it will happen. And it did.

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  • We knew eachother for 10 years before we even started dating... we were bff's.  I knew very early on that he was the one... it was so "easy" with him.  I couldn't imagine having to get to know someone else.
  • 6 months after dating. I heard that on PST truth be told that chick sounds stalkerish!

     

  • pete and i have an interesting 'story' because we moved in together and started dating on the same day. i was going to be his roommate, both of us working for the same company and he needed a roommate and i needed a place since i was living with an exboyfriend at the time and wanted out. we had been friends at work for a few months, went to his house 3 days before i moved in to see the place, we talked for hours, the attraction was there.. then i moved in and right from the first hour alone we were a "couple". i knew he was the one 2 days into living with him. i had the day off and he was working. He came home, walked in the door with a "Hey." as if we'd been together for years. It felt comfortable and right and I just knew I'd never be without him.
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    6 months after dating. I heard that on PST truth be told that chick sounds stalkerish!

     

    LOL, did you hear about the guy that proposed 7 days after meeting his wife?   

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  • He had me at "hello", lol.

    I was 15; he was 18 & we've been together ever since.

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  • I don't remember how long we had been together at that point, but it was during a specific conversation that I remember very vividly and can tell you exactly where we were and what we were doing.  I will never forget it.
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  • Not sure exactly when but when I saw how devoted he was to his family...I knew he would be an awesome husband & father. I was right.
  • I knew a few years before we started dating. We both knew but both had SO's at the time. Thank goodness we re-met years later and single.
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  • After our first date I knew it was going to be something special and different than anyone else I'd ever dated
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  • I started dating MH when I was 17 and still in high school.  We both pretty much knew right from the beginning.  We've been together ever since.
  • Prob a few months into dating when I saw he how hard he worked to try and win my parents over (the whole not Greek thing was an issue) and never once gave up.  Honestly, if the situation were reversed I would not have put up with the *** my parents put him through.  They love him now though!  lol
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  • With my ex-h, it was our second date. It was very matter-of-fact for me -- not "I want to marry him," but rather a deep knowing and acceptance that this was how it was gonna be, like it or not. Romantic, right?

    With my current guy, I knew something was in the works 9 years ago. Even though we were both married to other people and our circumstances (without getting into them here) had the odds completely stacked against us, I just knew we'd end up together. We never flirted, and we certainly never talked about it, but we always had a spark/chemistry that was palpable to me, and even to other people who'd comment on it when we were together.

  • Before we were even dating. I was working as his intern and I remember having a conversation with him where I thought, "He's the kind of guy I want to marry." I was dating someone else at the time and we didn't get together for a few more months.
  • we'd been dating long distance for almost 5 months. I was getting ready to head home after a great weekend t his place in dc and I suddenly burst into tears b/c I didn't know when i was going to see him again. a month later he was offered  transfer to nj, he moved a month after that & we were engaged 6 months later. 
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  • I think we both knew as soon as we started dating.  I knew that it all just felt very 'different' from other relationships I'd had, but in a right way.  We were engaged after 5 months. 

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  • when he was getting ready to relocate to MD. so probally 4-5 months into our relationship. i thought it was over. and he told me he wanted me to come and help him pick out an apt. because he was hoping i'd want to move to MD when i was done with school.

     

  • as soon as i walked in to his office and laid eyes on him the first time. ( i was his patient and it was my first appt with him. I remember coming out of the appt with him...which was revolving on whether to have a very serious spine surgery and calling my mom. I was not worried about the surgery as much as whether my mother would make sure I had some make up on when he came to see me in the hospital room.
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  • First date. Not that he was man I was going to marry b/c I never liked making those predictions  but I knew he'd be the love of my life. 

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  • Pretty early on in dating.  It took us 8 years to get married, but we knew we would do it very soon.
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  • My Dh says he knew on the first date, it took me longer, but we got engaged 4 months after meeting.

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