Anonymous wrote:Less than a month.

My post^^^ we started planning the future within 6 months. Moved in together a year later, married 2 years after that.

Less than a month.

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Anonymous wrote:8 years. One day I started looking forward to growing old with her.

Is that you DH?

We also married 8 years after we met.

No no no! I didn't marry the one. I merely married my girlfriend. She became that over a matter of years: a lot of good times and a few bad, plus some conscious decisions.

A friend of hers told me that she wanted me to ask her to dance (college). I looked at her far across the room, and had an instant realization that we would be together for the long term. The feeling was serious, almost solemn. Exactly 35 years later --today-- we are still powering ahead, with grown kids and grandchildren in the caravan.

I had known my DH for a few years before we had our first date. After the first date we were so comfortable together that we never went through the "will he call me for a date again" scene. We just started doing things together. I don't recall exactly when he became the "one" but it was definitely within the first 1 or 2 months. We had sex our second evening together which was crazy for me given that I was quite the prude but I was as much the initiator that night as he was. I do remember thinking about how naughty I had been and how good it felt. We've been married a long time and I still like to initiate.

Anonymous wrote:First couple "dates" (we were 19). I knew pretty much right away. You know when you click and you feel sparks yet comfortable at the same time.

Same here. We've now been happily together 13 years and married 8.

We clicked instantly and later revealed we had both thought we'd found our soulmate. Together for 20 years so far and thanking my lucky stars every one of those days. He is an amazing person and makes me a better person, too.

Almost immediately. We met and I felt both attracted and very comfortable. People assumed we were married everywhere we went. Within a week we were talking about marriage and saying "I love you."

Very quickly. Unfortunately, I was married at the time.

I don't think I was dealing with "the one", I think there isn't any such thing as one "the one". Lots of different people would have worked, if it wasn't him, it would have been someone else. But I wasn't looking for "the one", was looking for someone with similar goals and compatibility.

I decided too soon. I should have waited 5 years to see the ADHD arise. I would have run like hell. Now I'm stuck until the kids grow up. Bitter, bitter, bitter.

Anonymous wrote:8 years. One day I started looking forward to growing old with her.

Is that you DH?

We also married 8 years after we met.

We both knew the day we met that things were different with each other than anyone in our pasts. We were just so immediately comfortable with each other. We both told our friends within a week or so "He/she just gets me!" Our (separate) friends started talking about us getting married just a couple months in to the relationship. Not sure there was a moment I "knew" but I always thought I could see myself marrying him. We got engaged a year after we met.

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Anonymous wrote:I knew my DH for three years before we had our first date so I knew him very well as a good friend. I was actually the one to make the first move and invited him to my place for dinner...followed by breakfast! Within a month I was sure he was the one.

Sleeping with him on the first date seems pretty bold!

We were good friends so it wasn't like he was a stranger but it certainly was out of character for me. I was a virgin until I was 22 and I had only had sex with three guys prior to DH. His spending the night was definitely planned by me to his surprise. He had briefly dated a GF of mine who described his sexual prowess (stamina, not size) so I was very intrigued and she was right.

If you invite a guy to your place for dinner on the first date, sex can't be a huge surprise! Maybe the surprise was inviting him to your place for dinner in the first place. I'm sure he was anxious to see what you were serving for dessert.

Wow, having dinner at whoever's house on the 1st night in NO WAY implies sex. Actually that's sad you think that way, sad women have put up with men like that in the dating world. My friend dated a guy who she was interested in. On the 4th or 5th date he let her know it was time to have sex, lol. She hardly knew him and nicely told him they need to know each other a lot better.

Oh, right away. Love/lust at first sight for sure, but I knew it could be for real on date 1 which finally occurred a few years after meeting (I knew him from afar only until date 1).