S/O of poll below about relationship stats: when did you KNOW

Gem17

We both knew on our 2nd date. We got engaged a month later, got married a year later and will be married 5 years in December!

MyHusbandMyHero

Sounds so corny.. But I knew the minute I saw him. Of course he didn't see me until 2 days later. But I knew

paulaanne

I am not married yet to my fiance,  but I knew right away when I met him!

lbsunde

I met my husband in a class we were both taking in college. I remember thinking that he was cute, and I wanted to get to know him better. 

About a week later, I went downtown for some drinks with a few of my friends and my DH's friends, along with my future DH.  He picked me up as I lived next to a friend of his.  We went to a bar downtown, and I sat next to him all night long chatting and drinking.  

When I got back to my apartment that night, my roommates (who also happen to be my cousins) were still up.  I remember throwing myself on the couch and saying to them both, "I just spent the most amazing night ever with the man I am going to marry".  I just had this feeling that night and when DH and I actually started dating, he told me that he went back to his apartment and told his roommates basically the same thing. 

Our relationship progressed really fast. We started dating a few weeks later, and within a month the "I love you's" came out.  We went shopping for rings at 5 months of dating and he proposed to me after 7 months of dating. 

I know some people thought it was really fast for us to get engaged that early, but we didn't care.  We both knew that we were meant for each other, and I am so glad that God led me to my DH.  He's my whole entire world!

cathom7

We "met" on Myspace(back in the day, before FB!).  We wrote back and forth several times...  I only opened the initial email, bc he has the same name as my Dad and I thought it was him.  LOL  We talked for four HOURS the 1st time we spoke.  And if you ever met my SBD hubs, you would understand how HUGE that was.  The 1st time we met, I knew the second he hugged me.  I knew. 

KRISTA555

Before we were ever together... sort of.

I went through 2 divorces (yes, you read that right. First husband and I got married when we were 19 and stupid. Short marriage. Second marriage ended when he cheated on me repeatedly and unrepentantly and fraudulently used my credit).  When I was going through all that emotional pain, I remember thinking, "man, I should've ended up with (DH). HE is the type of guy that would never do these types of things to someone." 

I had known current DH since we were in church youth group together and had somewhat kept tabs on each other as friends. He was/is extremely highly respected by everyone who knows him, and  I always knew he would be a great husband/father for someone someday. But seeing as he was/is 3 years younger, I didn't think of him as a real prospect. Dating a freshman? Pshhhh...

After my second divorce (talk about embarrassing to be divorced twice at a fairly young age), I joined facebook, and DH was one of the people that came up on the "you might know this person" list.  I immediately got excited, because I saw he was still single, and he had... ahem.. grown up into a VERY good-looking guy.

Thankfully, because he knew me for so long and knew my character, the fact that I had been divorced twice didn't phase him.  He knew that I was/am a good girl and that if I had been divorced, it wasn't because I was psycho or a cheater myself. He had even met my ex husband several times and saw that I treated him well.

Anyway, the rest is history, and after 2 1/2 years of marriage... I couldn't be happier.  I should've been with him in the first place.

RNmommyof2

I knew Matt was the one for me maybe 4 weeks after meeting him. He was going to officer candidate school for 6 weeks and I was going to watch his cats. He left 6 weeks after we met and we were both miserable.

 

SeptemberBride'08

Literally the first moment I saw him I knew I was going to marry him. Shocked the heck out of me because that is not the way I typically think!

citydancer1

The first night we "slept" with eachother. It felt kind of rushed and he finally just stopped and said "we don't have to do this you know." It ended up that we just stayed awake all night answering eachother's random little questions. Everything about that night was just so perfect, it felt like something out of a romance novel. From then on I knew he'd be a part of my life for a very long time

We will be getting married in December

jennlin

we knew before we started "dating". we had been friends for 3 years, and i had just gotten out of a terrible relationship. he was there to comfort me during that time..and eventually, we had talked about our feelings for several weeks and we both decided that "yes" this is what we wanted to do, so we decided to start "dating".

we decided to make sure we had all the money we wanted saved up (to pay for a dream wedding in cash, and a 25% down payment on a house) before we got "engaged". after we got "engaged" was when we started officially planning the wedding.