When You Knew You Were in Love

[leonina]

Was there a specific moment when your breath was taken away and without even thinking the words 'I love this person' came to mind so naturally?

For me, he was really sick one night so I was trying to take care of him. We were lying in bed together listening to his flatmate's stereo. J started singing to me and plucking at my ribs as if they were guitar strings. Love hit me and knocked the air out of me. I thought "This amazing man is so ill but is still trying to show me how much he loves me."

And with that I fell.

[paulawriteslove]

The moment I knew I was in love was when he surprised me and drove up here, any who, the exact moment was when we went on a date the next day to get pizza and then walked around at a park which is located along side of the ocean. We walked up a little hill and before us was the Pacific Ocean, I looked at him and all of a sudden my heart started racing a thousand miles a minute! I told him that I loved him

[Caitlin2009]

i knew right when we started leaving twitter messages back and forth to one another, i was too afraid to tell her until a few months later but i knew then

[pytsip]

I realized that I loved him the night we had our first date. The scenario around this is because he was my best friend for 2 years prior to us dating, but when he first started asking me if I would date him, I was skeptical because I didn't want to lose my best friend. It was always in the back of my mind that if things didn't work out with us, that he and I wouldn't be friends afterwards, and I just wasn't sure on my feelings about him and wasn't willing to put that on the line. I finally told him that if he wanted to be my boyfriend that we should go on a date. We went to dinner and then rented a movie and got a bottle of wine and just laid on the couch and talked. He and I had slept in the same bed plenty of times before this, but that night we fell asleep together and it was the first time he held me in his arms, it was the first time that I looked into his eyes and really LOOKED into his eyes, and I knew instantly that I loved him and that he was the guy I wanted to be with. I didn't tell him, I felt like I'd be kinda creepy if I told him that I loved him on the first date, but later on when he said I love you to me the first time, I told him that I had been waiting since the day we started dating to tell him that because i was scared to tell him first, at which point he said to me that he had been waiting also because he thought that I'd think he was moving too fast.

[Rach321]

I realized I was in love with him during a trip we took to Virginia together. It was very early in our relationship. We went to a movie, and then decided to take a walk around the city. As we were walking, it started to pour down rain- we had a choice to go inside a bar to stay dry, but we decided instead to stay out in the rain and get soaked. We ran through the city, laughing as people looked at us like we were crazy. The rain settled down, and we found a little Japanese-style garden. I sat on a bench, looking at him as he took some photos, and I realized then that I loved him.

He said he loved me the next day, but it was after he had been drinking A LOT... so I didn't say it back then, and I sort of teased him about it, saying that it didn't count because he was drunk. At the end of our trip we both said Je t'aime... somehow saying it in French made it easier. "I love you" came a couple of visits later.

[BrittBlaz]

I realized I loved Jay when I almost let him go because I couldn't handle how complicated things were. I had started out by texting him about how I was falling hard for him and I was afraid if I kept on talking to him that I'd eventually fall in love with him and I didn't want to make things complicated. I was surprised when he let me go so easily. I figured maybe this was how things were meant to be. We had been talking every single day since we met and that next day was the first day we went without talking for over 24 hours. I was so overwhelmed with emotions I didn't know what to do. I was laying in bed and all I could think about was how I probably just threw away what could have been true love. Then it hit me that I was in love with him. And that that was the reason I was so scared to continue talking to him. I immediately called him and he answered within one ring. We got on skype to talk and within 5 minutes of talking he said he wanted to tell me something but he was worried I would think he's crazy. Then he said " I think I am in love with you". My heart melted. I knew right then and there that this was something so special. Something beyond anything I have ever experienced before and I knew that I was in love with him too so I told him how I felt and both of us were just so happy. I still feel the butterflies every time he tells me he loves me.

[NaNi]

I actually still don't know when I fell in love. I just know that with every new day... my feelings got stronger and stronger. There was a moment when we were lying on the bed though, it was around 2 weeks after my arrival in my SO's country, and I felt so unbelievably happy. We were just lying there... laughing and all happy. My chest felt all warm. That was the night when I told her that I was falling in love with her.

[nicole]

Looking back, I know I was in love with him BEFORE I thought it consciously for the first time (i think there's an episode of How I met Your Mother that explains what I mean perfectly lol)

The first time I thought it was, I remember this one day, I was having a really bad day, like my projects weren't going right, I had too much to do and I was reeeeeally stressed out. We'd been texting all day back and forth so he new I was upset, and he asked me if he could come take me out for dinner to cheer me up. I opened the door when he knocked, and there he was dressed in black pants, a waistcoat, a white shirt, sparkly bow-tie and the bowler hat I'd bought him for Christmas, complete with GIANT glue-on mustache. He looked like what I imagine the monopoly man looked like in his youth and he presented me with a 500 yard role of bubble wrap

It was then when I realized I loved him as absurd as it sounds. Who else would go through all that trouble after a hard day at work just to make me smile? and who else knew me so well that they knew a roll of bubble wrap would delight me more then chocolate or flowers? then we proceeded to go to five guys, I was in stitches of laughter the whole time!

I should have said it then, but we both tortured ourselves for about a month instead before we both said it lol

[MoonWatcher]

** After posting, this turned out to be SO LONG! My apologies. I got carried away... :P**

It actually hit me very... very suddenly.

We hung out at the same college student union called the BSU for around a year, and knew about each other but had never really formally met nor saw each other. At that time I was dating someone else and I only knew him as my best friend's cousin.
In April, I organized a fundraiser for Haiti. The turn out was much smaller than I had planned, and I was extremely disappointed. (He had been unable to be there because of a family thing). The very following night was an open-house night at the BSU called Coffeehouse, where the students give live entertainment and play games and contests, etc. I was exhausted from the physical and emotional labor of the fundraiser and felt like a failure. That and my ex was there towards the start of it, which made things extremely awkward (he's still very bitter about our breakup).

Towards the very end of the night, I was so tired and feeling non-social that I just agreed to play a fast-paced card game called Nerts with a small group. It didn't require talking or much interaction. It was getting close to 9 pm when David walked in, and immediately joined into the game. It was finals week and he'd had a stressful night, having to pick up other peoples slack. So, both of us were not really in a good mood. After a little while everyone left except me, my brother, David and his sister. We all sat at the same table and just started to talk. Not about anything important really, or with much depth. But we laughed and made nonsensical conversation for two hours. As he would talk, I really looked in his eyes for the first time, and after a minute my dried out contact lenses told me I was staring at him. I remember feeling embarrassed but couldn't keep myself from looking at him. You don't really notice anything especially amazing about him unless you look closely, but he has the most soulful and beautiful brown eyes I've ever seen in my life. His sweet and gentle demeanor was something I was very unaccustomed to. I felt very comfortable and relaxed with him, even though I really didn't know him. At 12, we all decided to call it a night. My brother and I are getting into the car to go home, and as soon as I closed the door it hit me:

I love David and I'm going to spend the rest of my life with him.

It was so shocking and so instantaneous, I literally had to take a few breaths and said "Wow" out loud (to which my brother said 'Huh?')! From the first moment I felt it to now, I've never had any doubt that he's the one I'm meant to be with. It was the scariest thing I've ever experienced, and still is to some extent. The feeling was so sure and true. It came from somewhere deep within, along with a feeling of a Guiding Hand without. I feel free to love him and give him all he wants, and I don't worry if my needs or desires will be provided for. In that moment, I just knew. And now, I just know. You know ?

I still haven't told him I love him, he's a very slow mover so I'm leaving that up to him. But I'm sure he knows

[milaya]

I had taken a plane from my homestay in Nagoya (Japan), down to Kagoshima (in the south), to meet him. At that time we had known each other for about 8 weeks.
At the hotel I complained that he rarely talked and it was annoying me. He then told me that men from his area in Japan rarely talked that he was raised to not speak and just to be quiet.

We then went to a restaurant and after having ordered our food, he was looking at the menu and started to comment on random things. I was tired so I didn't say much.
SO: "Why are you so quiet?"
Me: "Dunno"
- He starts saying random things again.
SO: "Seriously. Why are you so quiet? It's weird"
Me: "Why are you suddenly talking so much? That's weird as well."
SO: "I'm doing my best to talk more right now."
Me: "Why? For me?"
SO: "Yes. For you. You said I wasn't talking enough, so now I'm doing my best to improve that."

Think that was the moment I realized that I was in love with this guy.

[Ozzigirl]

I can't remember how I knew, but I can remember that every day when I got home from school I was looking forward to getting a fb message from him and how happy it made me when we talked and all and whenever my friend was over I always wanted to talk about him all the time and how I thought how amazing he was and at night before we slept we texted and in the morning and just all the time and then at one point i somehow got sad and just wanted him to hold me, I realised that when I was lying bed.. but yeah, during that time I realised that I liked him. When I knew that I loved him was shortly before we started dating, so a few weeks later.

[Puramu]

I really didn't realize I liked my SO for a while. But then it just all of a sudden sprung into love, whoa. But after I fell in love I looked back and saw where the "liking" was at.

Anyways, I guess we both had an unconscious crush on each other for who knows how long. I was in a relationship at the time so I guess I didn't think anything about it. And also, the weird thing, my SO and I were "married" on msn, so we would talk everyday and do 'husband and wife' things, it was senseless fun, we didn't think it would go anywhere. But it was after our...*ahem* honeymoon the day after my birthday where feelings REALLY came out. And it took me a while to realize I was in love with him, real love. My boyfriend at the time I was in "love" with, it wasn't true. So to feel these true feelings...wow, it was amazing. I made a list who I loved more and my SO was the winner

And I remember it was about 3 am, with no one else online where I told him that I loved him. And he said it back, squeee! Oh good times. We marked the start of the relationship on our 'honeymoon' day

[folclor]

when he didn't leave me and he listened to me and I told him everything and he still found me attractive...I knew I loved him.

[littlewinged1]

For me, it kind of started the day Derek and I "met". Previously we had met each other but never really had a conversation because it was always at crowded events and he was in a relationship. Finally we ended up at a car show together and there was only 4 of us total so Derek and I really got to talk for the first time. Naturally we walked off on our own lost in our own little world. By the end of the day when it came to him leaving he gave me a hug and that's when I knew. I knew he was different because he really held me. A few days later we were going out and it went quickly from then... Three weeks later I was gushing to my friend about this really sweet beach date he had taken me on and without thinking I blurted out, "I love him!" I surprised myself. I didn't realize consciously until then that I had fallen in love with him. I didn't get up the courage to tell him until a couple weeks later but my best friend heard it plenty after that

[Mio]

One time we skipped for 8 hours, and then I knew I was in love. It was magic!