How did you know?

gmack2011

We met at work and it all started by just seeing each other on smoke breaks. Then we got to talking one day and became friends - just at work (he had a gf and I was casually seeing someone at the time). Our friendship grew at work and we started talking about our personal lives. I was 100% single when he was in the process of breaking up with his gf (admittedly I was excited because I realized before then I had feelings for him - but I was his ear when he needed me). After a few months (of still just seeing each other at work - never outside of) I was talking about wanting to go somewhere for vaca - he asked if I wanted to go to Disney with him and I said 'oh yeah'! That Disney trip in 2007 and the Disney trip in 2008 we went just as friends. All along I was wondering if it was ever going to be more. We hung out a lot on weekends but still just as friends - even though everyone around thought we were a couple at that time. I was about to give up on a romantic relationship with him and was ok with us being "just friends". Finally after I went with him and his whole familiy to Disney in 2009 he made a move! He told me that he's been in love with me for over a year and that he has even thought about marrying me! I was shocked (and a little pissed he didn't make a move sooner - even tho yeah my bad I didn't make one either) but all my waiting paid off! I moved in 3 months later and 3 months after that at a surprise birthday party he proposed! So after reading this story I knew he was the one because I waited for him for so long - but it is well worth the wait!

aleighk1

When I could spend a whole lot of time with FI and not get annoyed. (I get annoyed veryyyy easily.) 

artzymeg

I think I knew when my and my fiance got back together. We were together for 3 years in college, and broke up we had a lot of growing up to do. Then two years later, we reconnected, and somehow while talking to him, I ended up pregnant on accident from someone else. It killed him. But he stayed. And he loves her like she was his. And never tries to make me feel bad about what happened. He also told me that he would work 2 jobs so that I could go back and finish my college degree.

alliecat89

I really only on here to support a friend of mine because I am in her wedding.

But any way my boyfriend and I are not even engaged at all and I never thought of him as the one until today.  I was having a moment and feeling really bad about myself I had gained a little weight and on top of it I have 6 exams over the next three days and it is that time of the month.  I was having one of those girlie moments where you get so stressed where you crack and have a good cry.

I cried for a good ten minutes on my boyfriends shoulder and when I was done he said to me; "I know you have bad days and good days, you have the special occasions when you do dress up and really take my breath away.  But when I wake up next to you everyday the first thing I do is turn over and watch the sun rise onto your beautiful face.  Those are the moments when I think how lucky I am to have you because no matter what you are always beautiful to me." 

Of course when he said I cried even more to know what I really ment to him.

shauna85

A couple  reson stand out  like our first date when i got sick all over his house he called and the second when brutaly destroyed hes fav meal he ate it and said nothing. mostly because I have never went after a guy i always wait for them to come to me and  for some reson I turned into a crazy stocker  I could not get enough of him.

SouthernPrairieGirl

we had been long distance dating even before we physically met,  because we started talking through the internet. After only a few weeks he broke it off because of the distance. I was ok with it, even though i missed him. After a couple weeks of still talking, we were "dating" again for about a week. He broke it off again because of the distance and he didn't know if we could make it work. Thats when we both figured it out. I had a really hard time with that breakup. We kept talking and started dating yet again the middle of October and finally met right after Christmas. When I ran into his arms that day, I knew i was home! The rest, as they say, is history.

angie6184

A variety of reasons told me he was the one. Some being...
that I could be my complete dorky self around him and he not only loved it, but joined right along. We started as just friends hanging out, laughing and challenging each other to various games of tennis, and our relationship bloomed from there, which assured me that we would be friends for life, regardless of where our relationship ended up (which I'm happy with how it has progressed).
Though I'm a very independent woman, I know that he can take care of me for life and is a very strong man. Where I'm weak he's strong and vise versa. We compliment each other and we're a good team.
Also, I have high anxiety and stress regarding my weight and he reminds me he loves me any way I am, but when I get on an exercise kick, he supports me 100%... even joined the gym with me!
Another thing, he got along with my mom! Which is something none of my previous BFs were able to do.
And above all... he supported my faith and relationship with God, and started attending church with me almost instantly. Through this he has become closer to God and I'm assured we will live a very happy life together.
He's my best friend.

Emifullofgrace

I have questioned every relationship that i had been in throughout my life but when i met my fiance nearly 2 years ago right from the get go i knew he was special and i have never, not once, questioned being with him! And also the more he learned about me the more he loved me, he found out my crazy and he loved me even more!! Thats how i knew he was the one.  

ErinlovesTim

I knew when i got throw-uppy sick one time at his house (we'd been dating a few weeks), and even though i closed the door and turned on the shower and the sink (to block noise), he still came to the door and asked if there was anything he could do to help or go get something for me.

throw up is gross, and i was impressed that he was that willing to help...though i still refused - i didn't need him to see me like that!

rar0207pd

He is the only one I can totally be myself, he excepts all my little quirks. He gets me and loves me completly. I know he is the one because we fill each others gaps.

dancink8rbug

3 months after I met my FI, I knew he was the one.  I knew when we got into a discussion while I was away and he was the first one I wanted to run to.  And, when after he met  my family, he still wanted to be with me!  He accepts me for who I am and I cant imagine being with anyone else.  He is the only guy I have ever met who actually listens to what I have to say. 

Geminixofxhearts

I haven't been the person to have a relationship for no more than a week. I always had trusting issues with men because the men I liked often hurt me. Anyway I met my fiancée at my co-workers house and we hit it off but he fell off the face of the planet. Six months later my co-worker was moving and my fiancée had left a couple things at his house so he decided to call him. Next week he showed up and within the week we started going out. I had my guard up for the first month because I was always afraid that this was too good to be true. About a month into our relationship he came over to meet my family and that night my sister came over with my nephew. Let me mind you my nephew means the world to me and at the time he was 6. He hit it off with my family and the next day I was babysitting my nephew and as soon as I helped him finish his homework he said " I love mark can he be my uncle?" . It felt like all the walls fell down and I realized that he was the one for me. I always believed that children were always the best judgement of character. A year later he proposed and we are having our wedding 10/20/13

Sarii1779

Well I went through some tramatic stuff this year, I was robbed and beaten up by two guys. He got his mom to come spend the week with me while i was recovering  and stayed up every night with me while i cried or got scared.

Basicly, he's seen me at my absolutly worst, and never once got frustrated with me even though he had to work the next morning.

keelyn03

We got together when I went to visit a friend at her school.  I came home and the next day at work, I remember telling a male co-worker that I had just found the man I was going to marry.  I was half joking of course, but as we continued our long distance relationship, our love grew stronger.

At the beginning of our relationship during one of our insanely lone phone conversations, i had mentioned to him two items i had lost somewhere along the way that I missed (i think we were talking about how items get lost as you move through life).   One was a celtic cross that I had received as a gift, and one was a Flogging Mollys shirt. 

After ony dating for a couple of weeks, he shows up at my house and gives me gifts for no reason at all.  I opened the first box and inside was the tshirt i had been missing.  Even though it was years old, he had managed to track one down for me.  Inside the second box was a beautiful celtic cross. It wasn't the fact that he had spontaneously brought presents, but he fact that he had spent so much time tracking down these things that meant so much to me that i had only mentioned in passing.  That was when i knew i wanted to spend the rest of my life with this wonderful and thoughtful man.