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When did you know you met your soulmate or special someone? Or if you did... It could be an ex, but when did you think you'd met the perfect one?
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#1
It was just another date on Labor Day. We were sitting at a restaurant. We looked at each other and smiled. We were thinking the same thing, and we knew that from each other's looks. That's when we knew we love each other, and care for each other. That's when I realized that she's the one. Labor Day became our anniversary.
Final score:
12points
#2
We met [ His name is Evan btw ] in Middle school and were really good friends up until Highschool where he pranked me on my birthday telling me that he and My other friend Jude were hanging out in the woods behind his house and that Jude fell in the river and can't get up. I ran to his house and there was Jude standing up and smiling at me. I was so mad but I couldn't see Evan anywhere until he ran behind me, did that dip thing, and kissed me.
Final score:
10points
#3
I don't have a boyfriend, but I have a best friend. I knew she was the perfect best friend because in second grade, these guys were kind of teasing me, and she stepped in and told them to stop. I guess they were scared or something, because they all sped-walked away. She looked at me and I realized we could be very best friends. Now we're in middle school and have known each other since.
Final score:
10points
#4
We're both trans; she went from male to female and I went from female to male. We wrote well together, doing an online story of what it would have been like had we known each other in high school in our proper genders. She is now my editor (I write for JMSBooks and others) and then we found out our fathers told the same lame jokes when we were kids.
Final score:
10points
#5
How I met my boyfriend
I once met him in Middle School. We became really good friends into High School. He asked me out when I was about 16 years old. I said yes. We was boyfriend and girlfriend since then and we're still together today.
I know I keep mentioning it but he had to move back to Pennsylvania for those who didn't know...
But we still talk on the phone
Final score:
8points
#6
We had an on and off start for a few years.
We have been married for almost 24 years now, 4 boys between us and 1 grandson. Looking back, I’d never thought we’d come this far, but, when I picture myself as “old” and he is the one I see sitting next to me being “old” with me.
Final score:
8points
#7
The first day we met (I was 15 and still at school, he was 21) we arranged to go to the cinema that evening together and when I returned home that night I told my mother that he was the man I was going to marry. It was just the feeling in the pit of my stomach that I had found ‘The One’ - my family laughed at me and thought I was crazy. We have now been together for 31 years and married for 26.
Final score:
7points
#8
I volunteered to cover someone else’s work trip. On the first night in the accommodation’s darkened tv room, I actually tripped over someone’s extra long legs (turns out he was 6’4”) in front of a room full of his mates watching football. He was so apologetic and concerned, I just wanted to die and ran out of the room. The next day I was being shown around his work section and he sought me out to apologise again and asked me out for a drink. He arranged for me to receive scented flowers and a toy sheep (to remind me of my countryside walks) when I had eye surgery a week later. (that sold him to my mum). Thirty years later he still makes sure I have fresh scented flowers every week.
Final score:
7points
#9
When we were able to agree on how much I would pay her.
Final score:
7points
#10
In short, It was very simple. We met at a bar, we saw eachother, she jumped in my arms, came home with me, and never left.
Actually, a mutual friend introduced us, but there's nothing more about the story, apart from the fact she jumped in my arms the second time we saw eachother. No idea why, I'm an ugly m**o, and she's beautiful.
Final score:
7points
Boopie Dew 3 years ago (edited)
That's how I met mine. Now granted I was bartending and he was a reg customer. Been together 26 yrs now
#11
I don't know if I have met him yet. But I sooo want to know him now.
Final score:
6points
#12
Well I have a bf and he is the nicest person ever like he wakes up a 5am and that day i stayed up all night and fell asleep and 6am and he facetimes me and like 10am and i wake up to my phone ringing and even though i look like sh*t he would still say im beautiful and he wont ever let me talk myself down. He makes sure im fine everyday by texting and facetiming me cuz we long distance. But our favorite NBA team was playing and i couldnt watch it bc i wasnt home so he facetimed me so we could watch it together for the first time. And they beat Miami by a good amount points.
Final score:
6points
#13
We met at a party at university. He was the DJ and I was helping out as a kind of waitress. I asked him out and at our first date he took my hand while walking me home. I hated this before in all my relationships, but that time I knew it was for real, because I didn't want to let him go. We are together now for 16years with 2 girls and still he holds my hand when we go for a walk.
Final score:
6points
#14
I went on holiday in The Gambia with my then boyfriend. When we arrived in the hotel, guy came to carry our suitcases to the room. We invited him in to have a drink with us. Boom. Love at first sight. All it took was just a little chat, we looked each other in the eye and that was that.
We ended up making trips with him as a guide and generally spending time together (the three of us). I was there with my boyfriend so I did not make any move. I thought it would pass, just a silly holiday love, it would never work, be happy with the one you are with, etc.. This was before the socal media age when it was hard and expensive to talk to people in Africa. So it was easy not to have contact and I did my best to forget him.
Two years later boyfriend and me broke up. I needed a holiday and thought, let me call to The Gambia, because he was still in my mind. And there he was, still single, waiting for me to return. I went to see him, two weeks later we were engaged and we got married 3 months later. Lived happily ever after until he passed away after 10 years of marriage.
Final score:
5points
#15
This is a very long story with several plot twists. I went to junior high school, it was hell for me because all the group knew each other since kindergarden. Some boys bullied me so much I was constantly feeling life was s**t. Girls were mean too, calling me names and disappearing my notebooks. Anyways, a boy (Jim), whom all the girls had a crush on, used to call me in the afternoons to do stupid (non agressive) jokes and teased me a lot, kind of a prankster. I had a crush on his best friend, Steve but sadly one day Jim told me that my crush had a crush on another girl. I was really sad specially because I was not good looking, acne, weird misaligned lower jaw, minon body, etc. I knew I didn't have a chance to have a boyfriend. Politness or inteligence meant nothing for schoolboys. During high school I had another crush (crush #2). With very low selfesteem I suffered a lot, because although I was my crush's best friend, he was always sleeping with the "pretty girl of the week" and also he was ALWAYS taking about physical appearance. After high school I had lower jaw surgery, exercised a lot and according to most people I was good looking. No matter how much I had changed I still felt really ugly and wondered if there was ever going to be someone who would not give a damn about appearence. One day, when I was 18, I received a facebook message from Jim. We chatted, after a couple of months he started calling me everyday (landline phone because I had no cellphone). I was a bit nervous of meeting him again because I was worried about him expecting me to look "different", he only knew how I was supposed to look based on some high school photos that some of my friends had posted ( I looked awful). One day before even meeting in person, he told me he had fallen madly in love with me. Turns out he had always had a crush on me, since the very first day of junior high school but was too childish to manage things correctly. Somehow he had always thought of me as someone very attractive. At school he had noticed I had a crush on his friend Steve. Steve also had a crush on me, but was too shy to tell me. Noticing that, Jim lied to me about my crush having another crush. Also, my crush knew that Jim liked me, so he told me that Jim was always teasing me because I was an easy target, not because he liked me. I was not sure if something could eventually happen. He was in law school, but where we live, a future lawyer is dooming his moral code out of money. I was the "boring vegetarian" who did not even had a cellphone When I was 19 suddenly he tells me he is becoming a vegetarian, that he is quitting law school to study finances. I was shocked, he told me that although he didn't have the courage to tell me what he felt before, he was sure by that moment that he wanted to be with me, marry (if I wished) and do whatever he could to make me happy. We met in person, a bit awkward but he was a real gentleman, witty, funny, really tall and handsome somehow he was not surprised at all at how I looked. I realized that he was my true love, no matter how I looked or how weird I seemed he found me very attractive, he makes me a better person. We have been together for 6 years now. He is a very supportive loving man, the kind of person that can be very playful and affectionate but also very calm and responsible. I love him more than anything.
Final score:
5points
#16
We were 12 when we first met and friends right away. We dated in high school, but lost contact when he left early to join the Marines. I frequently saw his family and always asked about him. I loved his family like my own and always felt a part of it. When he came home, we got back together and about 1 and 1/2 years later, we were married. He’s more than just a husband, he’s my best friend.
Final score:
4points
#17
It's my best friend, but I knew that we would get along from the moment I saw her. She had moved here to my school and it was the first day of 5th grade. The principal came up and introduced her, and everyone was saying hi and all but I stayed back because I was shy. I swear that when I decided to meet her the crowds parted. We hit it off from the start and have been best friends ever since! It's amazing because she is so much like me in literally every way except looks, but we get along so well. We have a little group with one other girl and they are such amazing friends.
Final score:
4points
#18
It's not an exciting story, but it was a completely novel experience for me. He messaged me on a dating website (not the novel part) and we met up that same day. I've tried so hard over the years to describe the feeling I had when I met him. It was a very relaxed, comfortable, soothing vibe, and I remember thinking, "I want this dude in my life. Whether we wind up romantically involved or not, I just want to know him." Ten years and two kids later...
Final score:
3points
#19
This may sound bad but I had a pattern of dating someone, being really infatuated at first and then a few months later I would just be annoyed by them and want them to go away. I then met my husband and months became years and I realized...hey I don't want him to ever go away.
Final score:
3points
#20
i met my current and first ever partner at my friends 6th grade reunion we started hanging out separately and we realised we both like each it was super freaking awkward other and had are still going strong to this day (8th grade)
p.s. i am a girl and they are a demigirl
Final score:
2points
#21
I had given up on dating and looking to close down my online profile when a message appeared, and my mom (who was visiting for the holidays) looked over my shoulder said the person who sent the message had a great smile. So after a few weeks of messages we met. We went to a bookstore, then shopped, ate some great Mexican food and sang happy birthday to some complete strangers. It was the end of the a pretty great date that he walked me to my car and then right before entering his he ran across the street to where I had my window down and kissed me. I was suddenly in a romantic movie with this guy that had the best smile and knew that was it... in our mid thirties and somehow held out for this moment and now celebrating our 2nd wedding anniversary
Final score:
2points
#22
There were 2 moments, actually. The first was before we had actually met face-to-face. We were talking on the phone and realized that we watched the same Saturday morning cartoons (in the 80s) when we were kids, only he was on the East Coast and I was on the West Coast. The second was a year or so later when we were in the lobby of a hotel and a song started playing, he just grabbed me and started dancing with me in the middle of the lobby. That was it, I knew.
Final score:
1point
#23
At the time, my best friend’s wedding. I saw her leaning out of a window smoking a cigarette. I took video footage of the wedding and there was a particular moment that I just focused in on her (don’t think I can post the video). We connected from the offset. Over 25 years, married and my best friend.
Final score:
1point
#24
I met my crush back in 2019. I started to like her bc of her personality. She is kind, shy, an artist, an OC maker, a tsundere, an anime weeb, and smart. I knew she was the right one bc she is the kind of person that was right for me bc she is everything I wanted in a person. She has an opposite personality than me. She knows I like her, but IDK if she does like me back. She also agreed to be my valentine this year. Maybe in the future, I might marry this girl.
Final score:
1point
#25
Three's the charm!
He was my boss!
When he walked into the production/assembly room I saw him for the first time, and it was like seen an old friend that I hadn't seen in ages.
He looking every inch a bad-boy. Motorcycle, leathers, and all!
He was going through a bad breakup. I was going through a bad breakup. We got together. Then broke up.
3yrs later we got back together. Then broke up.
17yrs later we got back together, and got a place. Got married 5yrs later. Been together for the last 11yrs, and the adventure continues!
Final score:
1point
#26
Well, this is my best friend, I was really a downer in 7th grade, and always pretended I was okay, and really didn't care for myself. 8th grade I was a mess, and I will tell you, without her, I would have never survived all of those times I thought I was never going to make it. All those times I just wanted to curl into a ball and never see another living person. Without her, I would have never been posting this, let alone knowing this existed.
Final score:
1point
#27
When I met her, it was like I was home. There weren’t any of the typical first date attempts at impressing each other. Neither of us felt the need to do that. We were inexplicably comfortable with each other right away. We got married six months later, and it will be seven years this Spring. I love my life with her. It’s not some epic romance. It’s just two people that bring out the best in each other.
Final score:
1point
#28
On our second date he took me to play D&D with his friends. I used my good dice.
Final score:
1point
#29
When he’d spend the night with me drinking bourbon and singing along to Joe Exotic’s songs.
Final score:
1point
#30
She is funny smart and really caring and generous she is the best we have everything in common and I love her so much and were in such a good relationship.
Final score:
1point
crimson (mudwing rainwing) 3 years ago
lol i thought that were was like wher(idk how to spell it) so im like um... were?
#31
at a friend's party. leaning on the same window ledge. i was eating a slice of lemon pound cake. i offered him a taste. he took it from me...and smiled at me....i knew i was going to marry him. sounds corny. married now over 22 yrs.
Final score:
1point
#32
I’d had an argument with my then BF over going to a midnight showing of a Star Wars film, he said it was a kids film and it was childish to want to go to the premiere showing. There was a guy at work I knew liked Star Wars as well so I asked him if he’d like to come with me. He did. And we’ve now been together nearly 19 years.
Final score:
1point
#33
I’d had an argument with my then BF - I wanted to go to the premiere showing of the new Star Wars film. He said it was a kids film and I was being childish. I knew a guy at work who liked Star Wars too so I asked him if he’d go with me. We’ve now been together nearly 19 years.
Final score:
1point
Sarah Richardson (Submission author) 3 years ago
And it was so good Bored Panda published it twice!
#34
When he still wanted to go out with me after I told him I'd only go out with him if this other guy - who I preferred - didn't call. And he more or less said okay and waited for me to come around. And I did. More or less. No, haha, much MORE than less.
Final score:
1point
#35
I knew the day I met my now husband he was the one. We went out to dinner together in a crowded restaurant. I burped loudly despite trying not to. He just burped louder and made it look like he’d done both. The man doesn’t even remember it but I knew.
Also, later that night, I farted (I was having a bad gas day, way too much soda) and so did he. Then we giggled because farts are funny.
Final score:
1point
#36
I don't really know the exact moment, everything seems blurry from that time. But I kind of know it from a before-and-after kind of perspective. At first, things were somewhat awkward and uncertain, and we let each other explore our relationship more freely. After some time, I knew he was the one because he was funny, and also laughed at my jokes too, and I felt comfortable sharing sensitive and dark things from my past and present, and that he didn't react in any negative way and accepted who I am. So I guess that was when I knew.
Final score:
0points
#37
I am 32 and i dont have one 😔
Final score:
0points
#38
I was at Buckingham palace when I saw this person and then I woke up I'm legit 13 what did you expect
Final score:
-4points
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