the moment you both knew....

[mynameiseric]

What moment you may ask? The moment when both you and your SO realized you were in love...as cheesy as it sounds, mine was when I first met her. I was driving to the airpoirt and I felt like my heart was about to jump out of my chest, I was sooooo nervous!

I walk through the doors at the airport, which was basically empty at the time so I knew it would be easy to see her. I look to the left at the baggage claim area and here is this tiny girl with her bag and her computer waiting....for me hopefully haha I knew it was her because my heart started racing just seeing her from a distance. I began to walk closer, and I got more nervous, I was FREAKING out.

When she knew for a face it was one another, she ran to me and I picked her up and held her in my arms as we shared our first kiss. We held/kissed each other for like 10 minutes before we went back to my house then off to the hotel where I had the room set up with candles and rose pedals.

Later on at the hotel, I was thinking about how I was going to say those 3 words to her...the ones that mean more then anything in the entire world. Do I make it cute and romantic? do I just blurt it out? She came out of the bathroom, and I was still in complete awww that I was FINALLY with her in person. I held her in my arms, kissed her, put both of my hands on each side of her face and we were forehead to forehead and thats when I told her I loved her.

And to hear her say it back was the best feeling I had ever felt...ever. THAT was the moment I knew...I knew I was kissing the girl id be kissing for the rest of my life. Sorry for the reallllly long thread, please post stories or comments, love to hear them!!

[paulawriteslove]

We were walking through a park which is located right next to the Pacific Ocean. It was beautiful! Right at the cliff, he grabbed my hand and kissed me and said 'I love you baby.' I told him I loved him back and yaa This is the first time that we said we loved each other in person It was Amazing!

[LadyMarchHare]

I think the moment for both of us is a bit of a tragic one.

We had been hiding our relationship from his best friend, a girl who was romantically obsessed with him, for a month and he'd been distressed over telling her because he didn't want to hurt her feelings but he knew it wasn't fair to her or me to hide it. One evening after he'd had a trying day (I think this was the day he'd had to play escort to Tina Fey and she acted like a brat the entire time in the park) she was acting funny and she found out, but didn't know who. When he told her it was me (she and I had gotten close, too, as friends) she got upset and he tried telling her he had wanted to break it gently, to help her realize she didn't need to be dependent on him for emotional support or anything else. She insulted him, disrespected him, then signed off without warning. He went crazy, absolutely heartbroken she'd taken it so poorly yet at the same time enraged she had dared make him feel bad over being with me. He has some mental issues like I do and went into a downward spiral, even cut himself, and I held his hand and remained calm when I think I should have lost my own mind with worry. I talked to him, calmed him down, talked him through cleaning and dressing the cuts, then took his mind off the moment and even stopped him from going and getting drunk to chase the problem.

He told me that night we were "practically married" in his mind because no one before had been able to pull him out of the recesses of his mind. I knew I loved him then because I saw him, a man who prided himself on always being superior and in control, fall apart and I picked up the pieces without a second thought, wanting nothing more than to protect him, make sure he was happy, and never end up that shattered again. The day before he had given me a reason to never hurt myself ever again, I wanted to do the same.

[NaNi]

I think the moment I knew that I was falling in love with my SO was when I was visiting her for the very first time. We were lying on the bed one night, very close to each other and still dressed. I felt so happy. I felt like I would burst with happiness. My heart... had never felt like that before. So I told my SO that I was falling in love with her. It took me a while to say it, but when I did... we both started crying. Out of happiness. I'm still not sure if my love for my SO built from there or if I was already in love with her. But a few weeks after that, when I was back home again, I was lying in bed one night and had the same feeling of happiness coming back. Only this time it was mixed with sadness. So I grabbed my headset and recorded an audio file where I told my SO that I was in love with her. She listened to it and recorded back. Hearing her say "I love you" was the most wonderful moment.

[XX, Lexi]

The moment I knew was the night of my graduation, the first week that we saw each other. I was hiding in the bathroom of my house, crying because I had expected this night to be PERFECT and it didn't. It was raining while I was graduating, I looked like a mess after and it just didn't go well. I was basically a mess.
After my mom came in there to comfort me, I was still lying on the floor, alternating between hiding my eyes in the crook of my arm and staring at the ceiling. I felt someone come into the room and sit beside me. I looked up and he was there, ready to comfort me.
I knew that, as we held each other because he shared a cry too, that it was love. That this was the guy that I want to be with.

[nicole]

I don't now really, I just rember wanting to tell him for months, but something stupid would always happen when I wanted to say it. I remember the day we both said I love you, it was... less then perfect, but at the same time, perfectly awkward for us lol. There were several perfect opportunities that day to say it, but as both of us are awkward, and I'm so shy, neither of us took them, so later a glass of wine and the emotional stress accumulated to me breaking down in tears for about an hour lol finally we were just sat on his bed with a toilet roll between us, and he said "So you care about me a lot don't you?" I nodded. "I care about you a lot" I nodded again. "So... would you say you loved me?" I nodded and then he said "I love you too!" and I hugged him and said it back to him, then went into a rant about him just saying that to stop me crying and he'd tricked me, lol he just laughed and we cuddled for ages.

I remember the next day, he'd thought I was breaking up with him because I didn't say "I love you" back when he finally woke up. I was having trouble getting my words out, because the way he was talking the night before, I thought he wanted to break things off once it was time for me to go back to England, so all these I love yous were useless and my heart was going to break. It was that morning I finally had the courage to say how I felt, and we decided we'd go LD. lol a very emotional weekend for my SO and I.

[Caitlin2009]

I knew when i started talking to her but i really knew when she came back from a trip with her parents, and she told me her ex(who thank god is now in prison) who somehow found out where she was staying tried to kill her, thank god other people were around and stopped him, but when she told me that i thought "shit i could have lost her, i need to tell her i love her at some point" so a few days after that i told her and it all started from there

[squiddie]

The guy I dated before my current BF told me straight up that he'd never tell me he'd love me, that he would probably never love me. And since I didn't ever want to say "I love you" without hearing it back, I managed to zip my lips and avoid saying it for the entire relationship...which was easy enough since I kept myself from loving him, as I knew he was never going to feel that way about me.

So about 3 months in with my current BF, I popped into his apartment one night to say hi and show off a dress I'd bought that day. (I never wear dresses, so it was a huge deal) Anywho, I tried it on for him and he turned around and told me I looked beautiful in it, and gave me a huge hug. In that instant it just flew out: "I love you". I clapped my hands over my mouth, completely mortified that I'd said it, because I'd trained myself to not say it for so long.

And then he said it back.

He still teases me to this day about it, how I looked so embarrassed that I'd say something like that.

[ioanna]

thats a great thread : )

for me, it wasn't your traditional romance story...
i had met him a couple of times, and we had been to a movie together (supposed to go with a common friend, but he ended up bailing out on us at the last second).
the first time we had actually called up each other and made plans to meet was june 2 2005. i picked up some ink, papers and brushes from the art store and headed out to his house for the first time. we were planning on doing crafts... a while after i got there i realized my phone was off because the battery had died, so i plugged it in and turned it back on. i instantly got a call from my parents saying they'd been trying to reach me for a long time, that everyone was looking for me.. there had been a new car bomb in beirut. the targeted victim was the father of a friend from my class in uni, a renowned journalist... i was in complete shock.. i just sat there on his couch crying.. watching the news on the tv... waiting for things to be a little cleared out so i could go to my friends house.. he tried comforting me the best he could.. he was even able to gets a few laughs out of me... he accompanied me on the way to my friends house and then had to go to his uni courses...
at the evening there was a procession with candles and roses of hundreds of people from downtown up to the scene of the crime. he came with me.. at the end of the walk, the crowd was gathered under my friends house, and we wanted to cut through so we could get inside. he held my hand.. i can not even begin to describe how i felt when his fingers touched mine... i just knew i never wanted to let it go...
i eventually had to let it go when we said goodbye later that night...
two days after that we shared our first kiss... but to me , its at that moment, that night when he took my hand, that my whole existence changed.


edit: just wanted to add that we started out CD for those of you who don't know me yet...

[Zephii]

I don't think we had a moment, or if we did, it happened seperately lol
We were in love a long time before we actually met, but still had to meet in person to "know" for sure that this is right.

[Talent_2]

We fell in love before we met but the day we met for the first time I was stood waiting for his train and I felt sick with nerves wen he text to say he was pulling in I very nearly ran n threw up. But the second I saw him I felt perfectly calm like everything was falling into place. I knew for sure the second I saw him

[mynameiseric]

I really do like hearing all the stories...it makes me and my SO feel not so alone in this LDR, because it is a lot harder then being with the person all the time. thanks to everyone for the stories and support!