When did you first know/realize your spouse was "the one"?

Question

I knew 3 years into the live-in relationship when my father died in a car accident one night and I forgot to leave gas money for my husband (my then boyfriend)..I take his check for the week to pay the bills and gives him what he needs (money for food, gas, spending, etc). He went through a jar of change, went to the gas station (with dimes, nickles, and pennies), pumped up and surprised me at my mom's house (which was over an hr away) because he wanted to be there to support me..What a sweetheart..That's my story.

Please share yours. The best and sweetest one gets the points

Answer 1

In 5th grade, he was my boyfriend. In 6th, he was the one who used to annoy me until I stabbed him with my pencil during homeroom. 18 years later our families were on a beach trip together when he showed me the pencil lead he still has lodged in his hand. We discussed years past when I thought he had never thought of me at all, when in actuality, he knew many things about me (boys I dated,teenage jobs I had, etc.) and he shared that with me and I fell head over heels for the man I had let go when we were children. It has been almost 4 years since that beach trip. We have each divorced our former spouses because we knew we were soul mates who were given another chance to get it right. We are now married, with one big blended family and are expecting our own baby in a very few months. He is perfect for me, and is my better half. I am so lucky and so blessed to have him.

Answer 2

I knew from the moment She was all I could think about, we fell in love, were married, divorced 16 months later. We were divorced 2.5 years and both had other relationships then we realized we couldn't be with out each other remarried and were together 15 years, now have been divorced 3 years and she is still the last thing I think about at night and the first thing I think about in the morning. She is still the love of my life. Who knows if we will ever be together agin. I hope so.

Answer 3

We e-mailed and chatted on-line for a number of years before we started talking on the phone....even then there was something in his voice that reached out to me...after 4 months we decided to exchange pix...
Now I used to go 'round telling people I should married Santa Claus, then I'd list all the silly reasons...for a laugh.( he must be rich, only goes out with the 'boys' once a year, is allways jolly)
When his pix came I couldn't believe it. First of all, it was snapped at the end of the work day, his shirt was all wrinkled, his hair fly-away, he looked damp (had been caught in a rainstorm)...didn't have a camera so he had bought one and talked the salesman (in Walgreens) to snap the pix....he was holding himself stiff like he was lined up for a firing squad..lol.
If anyone wanted to make themselves look really good...this was not it! But there was a big warm smile on his face and......he was a ringer for Santa! I sat and laughed for a long time....
...as I look at it, he wanted me to see him exactly as he is...no artifice, not all prettied up and posed for the camera.....and I knew right then.....
...and when we met face to face a few weeks later, it was obvious to both of us....

We've been married almost 2 years now...happily so.

Answer 4

I think we realized it on the first date. By the end of the first week (4 dates that first week), we were sure. It was almost scary. She proposed to me after 5 weeks of dating and we were married 2 days later. We just celebrated our 41st anniv. We joke that if we had it to do all over again, we would still get married, but we wouldn't wait so long.

Answer 5

When he wouldn't go away and kept after me to contact him, even when I did everything I thought I could do to chase him off!!

He and I worked at the same casino.

I didn't want a dang thing to do with him, because he was one of the ones I knew made the bucks. I wanted him to cram his $$ and his white collar job, etc. I told him several times in not so nice ways, but he still kept coming around, calling my beeper, and talking to all my security girls of why I keep telling him to go away, when all he wanted to do was go out on a few dates.

Didn't matter to me, previous bad relationships, and didn't want to make time for any man, especially not one in his "status".

After one girl talked to me, I finally gave in, and met up with him, dated for 6 weeks, during that time, WE almost lost my son. He did everything he could for my boy without one blink of the time, the cost, or efforts he had to make, things he had to help with, or even telling me because I had no medical insurance on my children or myself, to get it taken out of my pay and he would make up the amount they took out so they could be covered. (I didn't have time to do that cause we were married first..lol!)

We dated for 6 weeks, married and we've been together now for 8 1/2 years, I am sure it was when he wouldn't give up on me and he showed strength in getting what he wanted and never giving up.

Even knowing what I know now, I'd still make him chase me, maybe not as far or as long, but he'd still have to work at it!! LOL

Answer 6

The first time we talked on the phone. He is a truck driver, and he sat on a off ramp of a highway to talk to me for 5 hours so he wouldn't lose the call.

Answer 7

I knew as soon as I set eyes on my husband that he was The One.

I went out to kareoke with my best friend at the time where we met up with her boss (who had invited us out). We all chatted for a bit...her boss was complaining about how embarassed she was that her boyfriend and her boyfriend's best friend were going to get up on stage and sing an Elvis song. When she pointed them out to us I saw my husband (her boyfriend's best friend) and I knew it was HIM...The ONE...standing up there singing "Teddy Bear" with his buddy. (It still makes me laugh to think about it...)

It wasn't really fireworks and all that-until later!-it was just an instant recognition...like when you (used to be able to) go to the airport to meet someone. It couldn't have been clearer if he had been holding a sign that said "I'm your husband!"

I got him an Elvis poster for our one month anniversary....that was over five years and 1.5 children ago, and I still swoon when I see him. (That's no small feat when you're almost 8 months pregnant!!)

Thanks for the opportunity to think about how we met. It always gives me the best feeling!

Answer 8

On our first date when we both told each other that we didn't want anything serious. We both later told each other that right then was when we decided that we wanted to marry each other. We got married 8 months later.

Answer 9

I always knew, something was different about that one. He was a friend of a friend and over time we just evolved into something more..to the surprise of our mutual friend, hehe.

Answer 10

I didn't. I just made him "the one."