How did you know it was going to be serious?

[LadyDaemon]

I always knew I loved him more then anything and that it was something special just by the way he talked to me and the way he treated me,even when we weren't dating anymore. He was the first one to tell me he loved me the first time we ever dated and that was something I NEVER had experienced before him. I've always been the one to say I love you first. However,when we got back together this time I still knew it was the same and it had never changed,but didn't know it was so strong. The first time we met it was so intense I could barely contain myself most of the time lol. But I truly knew it was serious when he held me for the first time on the first night I was there,he held me like he needed and wanted me,like he never wanted to let me go. He also made dinner for me and did other things for me and when we went out in public he wasn't afraid to let me hold his hand or kiss him or wrap my arms around him. We went to the bar and he proudly told the bartender while we were there that I was his girl when she asked about us,there was no reservation. I was finally with someone who loved me for me and wasn't acting like he was ashamed of me. I knew from those moments that it was serious and I couldn't be without him.

[blankita719]

When he bought the full bottle of wine for dinner!

Ha! Love this answer!

I'm going to be cheesy and say it was the first day we met. After a few hours with him, I knew he was supposed to be a part of my life. 17 years later, he still is

[Catface]

It was a small series of things for me. When he was leaving Canada after we met, he tried to throw his plane ticket out the window of the moving car and as he was leaving, told me he would be back. I didn't really believe him at the time, because that just what people say when they're sad to leave. When he left Canada and still went out of his way to talk to me and make plans with me, I knew he was serious about coming back, serious about us. The real cement in it all was the weekend before Halloween when he told me he had bought his ticket.

Maybe I'll ask him this question, I'm curious to know the answer

[marbear31]

From the first day we met. The circumstances we met under were just so coincidental, there's no way on God's green earth it couldn't have meant something! I remember feeling a physical, but nonvisible barrier in front of me as I tried to go join another table for lunch (we met in the lunch line at international student orientation in Ireland, and I'd already promised to sit with some other people, plus I got into line behind him last minute, as I almost got the sandwich instead of the pasta ...God I love my incessant cravings for carbs. ) Anyway, if that intuition didn't clue me in, the twelve hour first date, him asking me to be his girlfriend the next day, and the craziest sense of peace and natural reciprocation I felt with him immediately definitely sealed the deal.

We told each other we loved each other the second day. I meant it from the bottom of my heart. I'd say it again, too.

[Aaron]

It was just a couple of days after we started talking on Facebook as regular friends. I tried to suppress it because I thought "snap out of it. Look where she lives. Are you mad?". Call me Mr Crazy, because within a month of us starting to talk to each other, we were going out. It wasn't long after until I realised that she really wasn't as amazing as I first thought she was. She was so so much more than that. There were deep things about this person I wanted to know. There were feelings that felt natural yet new. I still feel them to this day over two years after they started. Choosing to let out my heart to her was the best thing I've ever done, and every day I spend with her I feel more and more like I'm... home.

[Schlafmütze]

*This made me realize I have no shared our story here*

Last time we saw each other, right before I moved back to Colombia and at the airport he said: "I promise you we'll see each other soon". That day I knew it was going to be serious. Two months later he booked his flights, five months after our last goodbye he was here! :-) - Love you, Schatz!-

[aniay]

When we broke down into tears after not speaking to ourselves for 3 days.

But the hammer came when he asked me "how do you feel about it?" After I told him about one of my family members being sick.

[JoeyBug]

I'm really glad I asked this because reading through your replies has made me feel so happy and warm and fuzzy! Keep 'em coming

[Dezface]

Well for me it was a bit more complicated. We both had serious baggage when we met and no intentions of starting a relationship with each other. I knew I liked him enough to talk to him more or less all day every day for a couple months. But I figured we were basically just good company for each other when things were not going so great in our own lives. Even when he told me he had feelings for me, I knew I felt them too but I still didn't believe anything would come of it. I don't think I had a lightning strike moment where I thought "This is it. I have to be with him." It was more a gradual progression of things until we got to a point where we knew we wanted to go for it; that the other was special enough to warrant everything it would take to be together.

[MattDavies86]

We have talked about this a lot, we both sort of thought it was a holiday romance or something at the start, until I got home, I was devestated, and when I got off the plane, turned my phone on, 10 minutes later she called me from Thailand, I was like, what the fuck??? I really didn't expect that! And I was delighted, from there we both kinda got serious

[Chris516]

When she showed so much love in many ways.