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Open Question: How Did You Know?

August 11th, 2006 @ 10:02 am by Mrs. Bee

Just out of curiosity, how long did it take before you realized your other half was “the one?”

My fiance and I always stood on different grounds when it came to casual dating versus courtship. Would you suggest that casual dating was key to your relationships?

Kimmy

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14 Responses to “Open Question: How Did You Know?”

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FG

I just knew that he was different then any of the other guys I dated…nothing was difficult - everything seemed to be really easy & fun..we were clicking almost immediately..I didn’t know I was going to marry him (from the moment I met him) but I DEFINITELY knew I wanted to be around him as much as possible….I am a very lucky girl *blushes*

 
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Helen

I agree with FG. I wasn’t sure if I lusted after my man when I first met him (I still don’t really now, and even that worries me a little) but I have come to realise that everything is just easy with him. He makes me the person that I’m always trying to be, there were never any games or any need for them and he understands me when everyone else wants to wash their hands of my idiosyncracies. He is a wonderful man with whom I want to grow old and I seldom miss the firework rampant shenanigans and arguments that I had with my other significant *ex*. In fact, put that way, why on earth would I?! Casual dating had nothing to do with us I’m afraid, I was never a serial dater or anything like it. I just knew when I didn’t need to keep one eye open for alternatives anymore.

 
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Turtle

After my first date with my man, I told him I “wasn’t looking for a relationship.” I was serial monogramist, always looking for the right guy to be with. After many disappointments and one or two heartbreaks, I decided to just relax and enjoy being single. So for the first month C and I were dating, I guess one could call it “casual,” but truth was, when we weren’t in our respective classes, we were always together. Soon enough, we realized we wanted to make it official. Two months after that, he said he knew I’d marry him. And ha, he was right.

 
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Jessica

I think we each knew the other was “the one” by the time we actually started dating. We were friends and over the course of a year fell in love, but didn’t know about the other one’s feelings. He was actually dating my friend at the time. But as the year went by we just seemed to know we were supposed to be together. We never really said alot about it, but he informed me he was going to break up with my friend and we just naturally assumed that we would be together after that. I think if he had been single when we met then we would have casually dated first, but we sort of got the casual part out of the way during our friendship year. We said “I love you” before we even had our first kiss, so we were both pretty aware that what we had wasn’t something you come across everyday.

 
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snot

well. my finace and i were friends and the lines of when we started dating is blurry also. we spent years commisertaing with each other about our respective relationships but were religious about making sure we hung out together and finally one day we kind of realized we belonged together. heh. but it still took some time for me to accept it.

however! i didn’t think he was “the one” until one day we were at dinner and he was describing for me his ideal place to live and it was identical to what i wanted - only i’d never told anyone about it. and for some reason… his saying those words just made me realize that he was the one.

 
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FG

Also..I dated several boys (was almost engaged twice) however I never wanted to settle…No one ever seemed EXCEPTIONAL to me…sooo I had some me time & waiting for an exceptional man to come into my life…and my fiance was that man..

 
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kanipark

i actually met my hubbs outside a club, drinking in the parking lot :) isn’t that SOO romantic

 
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kanipark

ah man… i just wrote a long entry and only the first line got posted :(

to continue again…

i just started party and dating in my life… was with a bunch of my friends & he came up… he knew everyone but me. my first words to him, “want a shot” (isn’t that the way into a man’s heart?, kekeke)

he was also partying a lot at the time, we even joked around and said… let’s meet up in 6 months… but knew that we both couldn’t miss the oppportunity… we started dating…

the thing about dating is that umm… it’s not reliable… at least the beginning… why? because our REPRESENTATIVES are in full action :)

so after a few months i found that he was still the sweet, kind person i first met… he always put me first & his motto (i guess) is to make me happy (even to this day)… isn’t that what it’s all about? being happy with the one you love?

 
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OscarQ

I knew he was the one two months into dating. Basically at the time I didn’t know how to get around Manhattan and I was treating a friend to a night in NYC. We picked her up at Penn Station and he helped us figure out the subway and carried our bags. He got us to our hotel in Times Square, put our bags in the room, wished us fun, gave me a kiss and left to spend the night with buddies. As soon as he left I turned to my friend and said that is the man I’m going to marry.

Casual dating, not something I was able to do successfully. I serial dated, ditching the guy after two months and immediately moving on to the next guy. So the two-month realization that Mr. OscarQ was THE ONE was a bit shocking. He didn’t date much in college and we started dating just a few months after he graduated (he’s four years younger).

 
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K

My now fiance & I met when we worked together, and I was just drawn to him. We started off as friends, but we both had feelings for each other. We were riding around together on Christmas Eve 2004, and he asked me to go out with him. I was 18 & he was 20 at the time, and we had both never been in any “real” relationships. From the very beginning, I knew what we had was so special, and I didn’t want anything to happen to that. He has since told me that even before we started dating, that he knew I was someone that he could spend the rest of his life with. People said we were too young to know what we wanted to do with our lives, but we are 20 & almost 22 now, and we feel the exact same way that we did 2 years ago. About 5 months into our relationship, the first talk about marriage came up, and we both said that we wanted to marry each other, and I actually asked him if he’d marry me when we were laying in bed one morning…yeah, me! lol…He told me of course, but that nothing would be “official” until we were ready. In March of 2006, he bought me a gorgeous diamond promise ring, and he told me that’s to suffice until he can buy me the platinum & ruby ring that I am lusting after, and that’s when we’ll “officially” get engaged. We refer to each other as our fiance’s already, and everyone knows that it’s coming (the wedding), but I need to finish college and decide about law school, and he needs to finish college, so we can have the wedding of our dreams…hence why we are waiting until way in 2009/2010…
I think I’ve gone off topic a LOT…but I knew he was the one, right away. We just clicked, and we both feel the same way about the important things, and we have the same ideals, values, and goals. He’s the love of my life, and I’ve known that all along. :)

 
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Tea

we both knew about 2 months in…a friend of mine was getting married and i was thinking about what i would have at my own wedding and for the first time i saw the groom’s face [up until that moment it had been a blur...and my wedding fantasy the most generic thing ever] and it was my boyfriend’s. and when i thought about it some more, all the wedding ideas just fell into place.

we know we’re going to marry each other but aren’t rushing to the alter. so as of now, we’re unofficially engaged [he bought me a gorgeous promise/anniversary ring for our 1 year]. he always talked about courting rather than dating before we even got together and i must say that it’s really nice to be able to talk about our future and know that it’ll actually happen. :-)

 
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Trinity

my fiance and i went to high school together, but we didn’t date during that time. we were classmates and i never felt anything for him. but, on our graduation day, he told me that he was always interested in me. we didn’t do anything about it since we were both going seperate ways for college. about a year after, we reunited again through a friend. we just casually went out together a couple times until we officially became an item.

i knew that he was the one after being with him for a little over a year. i didnt realize until my best friend told me that he’s only the one that an get under my skin. he’s definitely the one, i know it.

 
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Adrienne

we were friends before we started dating. 2 months into dating he drove 30 miles in the rain to pick up a dryer with me and carried it up the stairs, across the living room and into the kitchen without freaking out that dinner was nearly on fire. That’s when I knew. It took him a couple more months, when we took our first road trip vacation through CO in March.

He hadn’t dated before, I was more of a serial dater. But this relationship just worked. It’s been nearly 2 years and it feels just like it should.

 
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chelles

When I first met my fi, I was in my freshman year of college and I saw him across the room at an orientation concert. I kept thinking to myself “i think he will be in my life soon.” We became friends soon after and our first date was to his formal for his frat. I kept thinking, “i dont want to be friends with him. I want more.” The next day, we became official. About four months in, I knew he was the one. I just could picture him in my life. I could picture my future with him. I never saw that with anyone else I dated. I was a serial dater before this and had had three long term relationships in high school, but with J, I felt confident that this would last forever. I guess it was just the feeling I got.

 


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