Sometimes it doesn't take much for someone to realize they never want to let go of the person they love the most.
After A Scary Trip To The Emergency Room
“She was spending the night at my place and woke up about 3 a.m. in severe discomfort. Over an hour went by, and she started to hurt worse, so I took her to the ER.
At the ER, she was screaming in pain, but they wouldn’t give her any pain meds without first doing a pregnancy test. Of course, she went to the bathroom while I was registering her, so she didn’t have anything to give. It was while she was in the room in the ER, miserable in pain and waiting for the pain meds to kick in that I realized I really cared for her and wanted to make our relationship more permanent.
It turned out that she was having a kidney stone and not an alien chest-burster. She struggled with that problem for years until we found the cause.
I met her mother for the first time that morning. I hate the circumstances, but I’m glad I was able to show I could take care of her daughter.”
Driving Her Into The Middle Of Nowhere?
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“We had only been dating about three weeks, but I already felt like we had something special.
That night, I decided I’d be smooth and tell her we were going to go for a drive after a late dinner without telling her my plans of watching a meteor shower. Seeing her face light up, after seeing our first meteor, I knew she was the one, and this would be a moment we would remember forever.
We’ve been married now for almost seven years, have two wonderful children and still watch that same meteor shower each year.
Oh yeah, turns out you should tell someone that you’ve only known for three weeks your plans, as you drive them out into the middle of nowhere, late at night. She later told me she was a little worried I was some crazy but decided to give me the benefit of the doubt. Good thing she did!”
The Grilled Cheese Story
“My roommate and best friend at the time had told her (my wife now) about my ex-girlfriend, specifically about the time I should’ve called it off.
My ex-girlfriend asks me to make her grilled cheese. She’s not feeling well, so I do. Well, I didn’t make it the way she likes it, so she asks me to make her another one, with more cheese. Whatever, I’ll eat this one – all is good. Wrong! Now it’s too cheesy! Four sandwiches later, I realize it was not about the quantity, she just wants to see the cheese squeezing out the sides. I made 4 grilled cheese sandwiches, none of which would she eat! Things got worse for longer than I should’ve allowed.
So my new girlfriend hears this and thinks it’s hilarious. She teams up with my roommate to talk me into cooking. They want grilled cheese. I make so much grilled cheese!
She takes one bite, makes a disgusted face, drops the sandwich, and says: ‘It’s not cheesy enough, make one with two slices, so the cheese melts off the sides.’My heart drops. How do I keep picking these girls? Why can’t they just appreciate the fact that I made a sandwich? It’s a grilled cheese, just say thanks and eat it!
My wife and roommate fall out of chairs laughing; they saw my face, it was like I had war flashbacks. We ate half a loaf of bread in grilled cheese. It wasn’t just one moment, but that is one of the first I can recall. She helped me recover from a damaging relationship, and I have rebuilt myself over the last five years. She still complains about my grilled cheese just to give me flashbacks, and I think to remind me how different she is, and how different I am.”
He Followed Her To The Airport?
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“We met when I studied abroad.
After I came home, we Skyped every day for nine months and had hour-long conversations, every day. I could talk to her about anything, and we’d never get bored. She came to visit for three months as I finished my undergrad.
At the end of those three months, which were wonderful, we reluctantly decided it was best to break up, that we just couldn’t do this long term, that it’d never work. We cried and said goodbye at the security checkpoint at the airport. I sat in my car in the airport parking lot and bawled like a baby. Then I dried my eyes, walked into the airport, booked a one-way ticket. As far as getting the last minute ticket, I fired up the Visa card and the lady at the ticket counter helped match me to the same connecting flights. Looking back, what I assumed is a long process, was pretty quick. I always keep my passport in my glovebox as an extra form of ID. I’ve since been told that’s strange, but I’ve always done it, and it really paid off that day. I flew through the Reno/Tahoe airport and the TSA is quite speedy, in my experience there, so it wasn’t an issue. Also, my girlfriend (now wife) was/is obsessed with getting to the airport early. So I had about two hours to burn before the flight took off.
When I first saw her at the gate, she was crying and looking the other way, so I sat down next to her. She gave me a hug and we cried and made a scene. On the flight itself, I sat next to a nice old man from Napa who was going to Sevilla with his wife. On the connecting flight from Chicago, I was in the very last row next to some smelly people I didn’t talk to. In regards to what happened to my car, I called my brother, and he swung by and grabbed it. He politely told me, ‘You’re an idiot and mom is going to kill you.’ So now the car spends its days lounging in my parents’ garage, and pops takes it to grab groceries, now that he’s retired.
We’ve been together for six years now. It’s the best decision I ever made.”
Dealing With A Death
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“We had only been dating for three months, so there was still some awkwardness here and there.
I was working an outrageous amount, and I got a phone call that one of my very good friends had just died in a car accident.
I don’t really remember walking there, but instead of my apartment, I ended up at hers. She opened the door to her new boyfriend half-ugly-sobbing. Instead of being (rightly) weirded out, she listened and cried with me for a couple hours. The friend who died was the one who had encouraged me (for like six months) to ask my now-wife out. My friend never knew the impact she had.
My wife and I have been married for eight years now!”
She Knew How Much It Meant To Him!
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“I haven’t married her yet, but I already know I will.
Due to a number of circumstances, she couldn’t pass her final university exam.
She reapplied. It was her passion and dream to teach children. It was everything to her, and she was waiting for their reply.
Fast forward a little bit, I begin the process of moving to her country, went to visit, and I had two job interviews lined up. I aced both of them, but in the end, accepted one of them. Extremely excited, I give her a call, she is as happy as I am.
I go back to her mum’s place, waiting excitedly for her to come back from work. She comes back, we kiss, jump around with excitement, the works, but something feels wrong, I can just tell.
She tells me she wants to give me something. It was a trimmer. I always really wanted one but could never afford one, and she wanted to give me something nice to congratulate me on my success.
I am overwhelmed with joy, but still, I feel that something is off, something is wrong. She says nothing is wrong, but I know her. I know that when something is wrong, she doesn’t usually talk about it until I don’t stop bugging her. One of the things she says she loves me for.
So I keep asking and I don’t stop until she tells me what is up – I know it’s something big.
She eventually tells me. They rejected her application.
I have never seen a human being fall apart so fast in my life and it was heartbreaking. But, at that time, I realized something. Despite all this, despite her dream being shattered, she didn’t think of herself, instead she put on a smile, because she knew how much getting a job in this country meant to me, she even got me a present and was willing to keep her dream shattering a secret from me so that it wouldn’t ruin my moment of happiness and was happy, truly happy for me.
It was then, that I knew I will marry her someday.”
Her Loving Note On The Fridge
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“We’ve been making big plans to take a six-month around-the-world trip for quite some time, and are just saving up money. I got laid off from my job, and my first concern was that this was going to push our trip way back. I knew how much she was looking forward to it, so I was sure she would be disappointed.
Instead, I came home to a note written on the fridge: ‘I will wait 100 years to explore the world with you. I’m looking forward to our travels, but I’m most excited when I get to wake up next to you and share another beautifully ordinary day with you. I love you so much.’
Someone was obviously cutting onions in the kitchen because my eyes were tearing up like crazy. I started planning our engagement, and I proposed two weeks later on top of a mountain. We have been married a few months and couldn’t be happier.”
Their Humor Just Meshes So Well!
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“We started dating in January.
As soon as spring came and my Weber grill emerged from its icy tomb, I suggested we grill dinner.
At the grocery store, we were standing in the charcoal aisle, and she explained how she grew up using a propane grill. I was starting to explain why I buy Kingsford and she snatched a smaller bag of the generic brand, hoisted it over her head, shook it and shouted how we should buy the cheap stuff.
I finished explaining that the packaging is why I buy the name brand at the same time she realized charcoal dust was drifting down into her hair and all over her white T-shirt. I think the other people in the grocery store thought we were crazy since we couldn’t stop laughing.
We’ve been together 11 years and married for eight. Her commitment to absurd humor and our ability to laugh at ourselves has never diminished.”
The Most Selfless Woman He Had Ever Met!
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“We were dating for just three weeks when I found out that my father was dying of cancer. He was my mother’s primary caregiver. I knew that this meant that as the only child, I was going to have my life fully disrupted on a serious basis. I was probably going to have to upend my life, change jobs, and probably move from my swanky Minneapolis life to the farthest reaches of suburbia. I told my new girlfriend that there would be no hard feelings if she wanted to split up, as I told her how my life was going to change from pretty carefree to very serious immediately. It was a lot to have to deal with in a new relationship. She decided to stick it out and support her brand new boyfriend.
It was when we were at my parent’s house, getting my mother ready for my dad’s funeral two months later, that I knew. She was going to be meeting all my extended family (all eight of us) for the first time under awful circumstances and kept herself together. But before all that took place, she won me over forever. My mother has serious mental issues and is also fairly physically limited. That morning, with just my mother, my now-wife and I, in the house, we were getting ready for the funeral. My mother couldn’t button her own blouse, and instead of asking me to help, she asked my now-wife. My now-wife jumped up and helped her out, even though she had only met my mother three times before that day. Now, here she was buttoning my mother’s blouse, a very intimate act for an almost stranger to do. My wife was amazing and understood how to handle herself and my mother in one simple moment. The act of an old lady getting ready to bury her husband is so more intimate and personal than anyone could really understand until you see it. And my wife handled her in that moment with a dignity and grace that I see luckily get to see every day now.
The sheer concern and patience she showed through that whole ordeal, was amazing. She was everything a partner should be. At the age of 36, I had finally found someone with equal parts strength, empathy, humor, and grace.
Anyone who could be so selfless in a fresh and brand new relationship is someone who has their priorities right. I couldn’t be more happy to have this woman by my side – she is my equal partner in all things. And the humor sealed the deal…she’s the funniest person I have ever known.”
Distance Made His Heart Grow Fonder
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“When I was 16, an insanely hot girl messaged me on Myspace (yeah, I know) because we had mutual friends and she thought I was cute. We hit it off, started dating, and a few months later, I left her in Texas to go on a trip with my family to see my grandparents in Indiana.
It was the first time we’d been apart for more than a day or two since we’d been together, and the separation was brutal for a pair of teenage lovebirds. We spent almost every night of that trip talking on the phone until 3 or 4 a.m., laughing, telling each other secrets, and sharing our hopes and fears for the future.
She was brilliant – talking to her simultaneously felt like I was going on a big adventure and I’d found my way home all at the same time. That was the first time I’d ever felt like every minute spent away from her was a complete waste of time, and that feeling never really went away.
We’ve been together 12 years now and just celebrated our seventh wedding anniversary.
Sometimes you get it right on the first try, folks.”
The Night He Lost His Car
“I lost my car in a parking garage after bungled the evening by forgetting my wallet on an expensive Italian dinner date.
I was embarrassed and mortified. I just wanted to cut my losses and get home. I was trying to impress her and anything that could go wrong did.
To cap the night off, I forgot where I parked my car because I was flustered by everything that had gone wrong.
After 20 minutes or so of me running around this parking garage, going level to level, running hand in hand, I could feel her glare and annoyment on the back of my neck. It was growing. I could feel her quietly thinking, ‘Well, this was the worst date I’ve ever been on.’
The humiliation finally overcame me, and I stopped and turned around. Maybe to apologize profusely, I don’t know, still don’t know. I was preparing myself for the look on her face. She was smiling.
She started to laugh, but not at me. It was almost like she was inviting me to laugh with her about this poor idiot’s luck. A large wave of relief washed over the dreadful evening. We stood there on level 2 of the Newport on the Levee parking garage, just laughing. I knew at that precise moment that I wanted to marry her.
Six years later, we are married with two kids. When we gave our vows, we both unknowingly had written of that exact night in Newport and that exact moment. I think perhaps for me, I had fallen in love before, but with her. I never wanted to fall in love again.”
He Just Wanted Her In His Life Somehow
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“I met my wife through some mutual friends. I was 16 years old, and she was 15 years old.
There was something about her. The first thing I noticed about her was her smile. When she smiles, her whole face lights up, and she has a huge beautiful smile. I wouldn’t say the first time I met her I knew I wanted to marry her, but I did know that I wanted her in my life in some way.
We hung out a few times with friends, and I told her that I was starting to have feelings for her. She didn’t feel the same way. We stayed friends, didn’t hang out a lot because we lived about 30 miles apart from each other.
In my early 20s, I was having a party at our house and decided to just invite her. We were still friends, but I still had those feelings for her. She said yes to the party and came over to hang out. After that, we pretty much hung out every weekend for the next few months. I finally decided to ask her out again, and this time she said yes.
We were dating for about three years, ended up buying a house together, and lived together for another year. We had both talked about marriage and knew we wanted to get married. I had taken a day off work for an interview, and on the way, home decided right then and there that I wanted to go buy her the ring. I called my dad and was like: ‘Hey, I think I’m going to buy her an engagement right now.’ All he said was he thinks that’s a great idea, so I went and bought her the ring.
I guess I don’t really have a ‘so going to marry this girl’ moment, but I knew that I always wanted her in my life in some way.”
He Really Enjoyed Camping With Her!
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“She was driving us back from a great camping trip with friends. My mind was wandering and I thought, ‘You know, I wish I could do rad stuff like this with her forever.’ Then I thought, ‘That sounds like a marriage.’
I looked over at her, she glanced at me and smiled back.
I then put together a plan; I asked her to live with me in six months when her lease is up. If our relationship is still good after a year, I’ll ask her to marry me.
I did exactly that. We’ve been married four years and have an 8-month-old.”
“I Knew I Was Right Where I Was Supposed To Be”
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“My girlfriend is a paramedic, and I’m a cop. I met her on a call where someone overdosed and passed away, unfortunately. I was new at the time, and couldn’t help but notice how gorgeous this paramedic was.
Well, fast forward a month or two, and I go out with her and a bunch of her friends. She got a little tipsy (she was pretty embarrassed the next morning), so I took her home to make sure she was okay. She ended up telling me to stay because she wasn’t feeling well. So I spent the night with her as she apologized profusely for drinking too much. I woke up in the morning with her cuddled up to me on my right side, and her golden retriever cuddled up on my left side, and I knew I was right where I was supposed to be.
We just bought our first house together, and I’m getting ready to propose! And I couldn’t be happier or luckier.”
Sometimes It’s Just About The Little Things
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“I dated this girl for a few months. Then we began living together five months in. I bought a house and left my parents.
She had a lot of mental issues with depression and anxiety. Of course, when she was depressed, I used my sense of humor, and when she had anxiety attacks, I’d lay in bed and comfort her, talking about positive thoughts. This built such a strong bond between us. She always deals with my shift changes every week from days to second shift to midnights every 10 days. When I slept during the day, on her days off, she would clean the house and do laundry just for a cute surprise when I woke up. As well as buy these cute gifts for the house such as lights and cute sayings for the walls. All of it just made me more and more in love with her.
Some nights I would have to adjust to midnight shift. So my last day off, I would stay up playing video games and she wouldn’t ever complain. The absolute point that in my head said: ‘I need to marry her,’ was when I gave her a kiss before work, telling her to sleep good and she smiled half asleep then wrapped her arms around me and pulled me in for the biggest hug. It doesn’t seem like much, but to me, it was everything.
We’ve been together for almost two years; it will be two years this Friday. And I cannot wait to marry her. Her parents love me, my parents love her, and she’s made the last two years of my life have a whole new meaning of care and love.”