Every love story has a series of little milestones. The first date, the first kiss, the first fight, the first time uttering those three special words. These stages create a deeper bond between you and your significant other and signal the start of a new chapter in your lives together — a solid relationship. It is an exciting and nerve-racking adventure in itself, and it takes even more hard work, courage, and faith to see if you can make it to the soulmate territory.
But there’s one more moment every romantic looks forward to, and it’s the clarity that your partner is really The One. When you know, you know, right? Well, we stumbled upon an old viral Reddit thread in which user omg1223 reached out to the married men of ‘Ask Reddit’. The Redditor invited husbands to share the exact moment with their (now) wives that made them go, “Yup, I’m asking this girl to marry me.”
The post is filled with adorable, heartfelt, and hilarious stories of how couples went from “head over heels” to “I do”. Our love-loving team at Bored Panda has scoured the thread and gathered some of the most wholesome responses to prove that finding your perfect match is worth all the hassle. Continue scrolling to read the replies for yourself, and be sure to share your own stories about the times you knew the person you wanted to marry was standing right in front of you.
Psst! More sweet relationship moments can be found in our earlier piece where people share how they realized their partner was The One.
#1
When I first told my father that I was dating someone new, he jokingly asked, “What’s her name? What does she do? What’s her bra size?”
I told her about it, hoping to prepare her for his sense of humor, and she thought it was hilarious. The first time they met she introduced herself by saying, “Hi I’m Stephanie! I’m in college and I’m a B-cup.”
My father was horrified, my mother was laughing hysterically, and I was in love.
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#2
Getting married next month. She came over 2 weeks into us dating with a batman costume for my cat. She put my cat in the costume and then chased the cat around the apartment singing “DA-NUH-NUH-NUH BATCAT!”
There was never a doubt in my mind after that.
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#3
On or about our second date my future spouse was on call for her medical job. Her beeper when off (dates the story) and we rushed to the hospital where I got to watch her handle a trauma case. I saw confidence, expertise, calmness under pressure, kindness and caring and a few other desired traits shine forth and with that added to her package I knew she was someone I could respect for the rest of my life. We celebrate our 24th anniversary this fall.
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#4
The day she took off work to help me go through a dumpster. I had accidentally thrown my keys in the trash while cleaning out my car.
Edit: We found them 2 hours later.
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#5
When she was meeting my parents, she put together an outfit and asked “What do you think? Does this say ‘hey parents, look at me, I’m awesome,’ or ‘I slept with your son on the first date?'”
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#6
Things were going really well, and I was saying to myself “If this keeps up, I think next summer I’ll pop the question.”
Then, my mother had a stroke. We were all sitting in the waiting area outside the ICU, because only 2 people were allowed in at a time. It was my now-wife’s birthday, and a Wednesday, and she didn’t hesitate to take the day off to sit with me and my family.
I went to visit my father at home, and she came with me. Her Italian instincts kicked it, and she brought a load of groceries and a lasagna with her.
My father was a mess at the hospital, and it fell on me and my siblings to speak with the doctors and make plans.
I would get home, and pour myself some bourbon. She made me dinner, and just sat with me while I silently sobbed.
It wasn’t about how great we were when things were good, it was about how perfect she was when things were bad.
I bought the ring 2 months later.
Edit: Forgot – this all happened just before Christmas. Since my mother was still in the hospital Christmas Eve, I got a last minute reservation to my father’s favorite restaurant. GF was with her family, but we got to the table to find a note that she had called ahead to buy us 2 bottles of wine.
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#7
The very first time I laid eyes on her! We married after going steady for 15 months and remained married for 56 years, until her death 3 years ago. Blue eyed blonde and a ten in my book. Miss her terribly.
#8
We got really high, got in bed, and pretended we were pieces of chipotle chicken in a blanket quesadilla.
We’re getting married in January.
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#9
We had a long distance relationship. We lived 3 to 4 hours away from each other the entire time we dated. We had met at a concert and traded emails and MSN info (classic). We emailed and chatted everyday, sometimes for hours. We poured our hearts out about our fears and dreams. I’d go visit her every other weekend, and she’d come once and a while my way.
About 3 or 4 months into doing this, I’m at home chilling at home playing some game in my room. My dad calls up the stairs that I got a package in the mail. So I, confused, come walking down the stairs. And there she was. She came up to visit as a surprise. Without thinking, I instinctively ran to her and hugged her and lifted her and spun her a bit. And I felt in my heart a wholeness. Like holding her filled in something I was missing. I knew then that I never would let her go (metaphorically speaking). Been married over 9 years, and I still get that feeling when I hug and kiss her.
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#10
It was our first date. It was the last day of classes before Thanksgiving break, she was supposed to drive home after class. It was just a coffee date that stretched out for several hours. It was just comfortable. Conversation flowed. I wasn’t worried about saying anything dumb or silly. We were completely ourselves. It culminated in a shy kiss in her car before she left to drive home.
Her Mom knew why she was late, just by her mood. I went back to my apartment and talked to my roommate. I told him there was something special about this girl. We’ll be celebrating our 10 year anniversary this summer.
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#11
This may be a bit unusual, but the way she could toss an insult around. I tend to tease playfully, and she could always toss banter right back. We ended up insulting each other so much that my friend had to assure his girlfriend that we were only kidding and didn’t hate each other. It was great.
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#12
have to post this for my dad.
my parents met 39 years ago last Friday, in a lineup for a movie. my moms friend knew my dad from another friend and introduced them. My dad was known as a ‘wild guy’, and my mom was seriously considering becoming a nun. naturally, they started dating.
couple months later, my mom found a lump in her breast. my dads aunt died of breast cancer very young, and it just freaked him out I guess. My mother had the lump removed and thank god it was benign, but my dad had already rushed out and bought an engagement ring.
He always claims he knew from the moment he saw her, but a couple of glasses of wine and he will tell you that he saw what life could be like without her, and it wasn’t worth living.
they never fight, they always work together, and my moms heart still skips a beat when he comes home from work.
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#13
My dad told me he knew he wanted to marry my mom when the McDonald’s opened in Moscow after the USSR crumbled and she ate 6 Big Macs in a row
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#14
I left my favorite CD in her car (Dream Theater’s Scenes From a Memory). She wasn’t a huge fan, but put up with it whenever I listened.
One day I was on the phone with her while she was driving, and we said good-bye but she forgot to hang up.
I waited a few seconds and I heard her singing along.
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#15
I actually have a picture I took of her the moment I realized it. Nothing in particular happened. We had been dating for a while and went on vacation together. When we arrived at the resort, we were sitting on the veranda having a drink and it just hit me: “This is the girl I am going to marry.” So I immediately took her picture. The look on her face is sort of like, “Why are you looking at me like that?”
I realize this is buried and nobody will see it and it’s not a cool or funny story, but I wanted to put in my answer to be archived on the interwebs forever. I just love that girl so much.
EDIT: You people are awesome! I posted this in the morning, and I just checked my phone and saw all the upvotes and I had to go find the pic. It took some looking; it was on an old backup drive. The pic is from 2005. Here it is: [My beautiful girl](https://ift.tt/JMNRhq1)
This is on the veranda of the St. Regis Mardavall on Mallorca. (At the time it was just the Mardavall.) Looking at this reminds me she was wearing my sweatshirt because it was a little chilly in the late afternoon. (It wasn’t, but she gets cold when it isn’t at least 75F.) She is looking at the guidebook and map. Now that I look at the picture after all these years, the late-afternoon golden light, in retrospect, might have been conspiring to influence me. Something about her at that very moment made it clear that she was the girl I was going to spend the rest of my life with. It’s been 10 wonderful years.
Thank you, great people, for encouraging me to dig this out and re-live this moment.
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#16
When we were having a conversation and she kept making me laugh. Her sense of humor is incredible. It also helped when I was taking her out on an early date and she said, “You’re spending too much money on me.” She knew money was very tight for me (we were in college).
Our 34th anniversary is this Saturday.
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#17
I was divorced going on my third year, had dated several women. But this one girl I only had been dating 10 days when I blurted out asking her to marry me. She said yes. Its been 32 years now and were still very much in love.
#18
I was driving us home from a golf tournament for couples. We stopped to get some lunch and as I was driving she handed me a perfectly unwrapped burger that I could eat one handed while she sat cross legged next to me. Not sure why but I just felt so loved, nurtured and happy in that moment. Now that’s sort of our thing. We love to travel and no matter where we stop to eat she will always make sure I am able to eat in a convenient way. Something about watching the road while your now wife sets a napkin on your leg, puts the fries face up in the cup holder and gets the burger ready to go . Been together 10 years married for two.
#19
When I realized that I would rather stay home watching stupid t.v. shows or movies with her, than going out with my friends.
#20
Hot redhead on St. Patrick’s day drinking Guinness out of a pitcher. That’s the girl for me! Introduced myself, spent the rest of the day with her, stumbled to a buddy’s who lived close to the bar, told him I met the girl I was going to marry. Been 20+ years.
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#21
She insisted on cooking me steak on one of our first few dates. It was the best steak I’d ever had. I ended up drunkenly confessing my love soon afterward. For the steaks, of course.
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#22
My wife and I were good friends before we became romantically involved. She was “one of the guys,” and it wasn’t unusual to roughhouse a little (this sounds sexual in retrospect, but it really wasn’t at the time). You know that thing you used to do to your sister when you were like 12, where you’d pin her down and threaten to spit on her by letting the spit hang out of your mouth, then sucking it back up at the last minute? (Dear God, I hope I’m not the only one who did this.) Well, I did that to my friend-now-wife, except I waited too long and I accidentally spit directly in her eye. Instead of being furious like a normal person, she busted out laughing. We’ve been married 12 years.
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#23
I stepped on a girls foot at a festival. I turned and apologized sincerely and the girl accepted my apology. Her drunk friend though decided to start screaming at me, and threatened to assault me saying “I’m a girl, you can’t hit back.” When she shoved me my future wife came out of nowhere and punched her so hard her shoe came off. I said “yup, I’m marrying this woman.
Edit: my wife isn’t the one who’s foot I stepped on. Should have worded it better. She and I had been casually dating 8 months and she was off looking for our friends when I stepped on the girls foot
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#24
Engaged.
Our first date lasted 12 hours because we just couldn’t stop talking.
Our second date was supposed to be just dinner and it lasted almost 2 days.
She drove away after the second date and I couldn’t imagine my life without her in it. I was ecstatic to find out she felt the same.
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#25
She invited me to her apartment to cook me dinner. On my way, I picked up a prescription and promptly took the first pill. Five minutes before dinner was ready, I had an adverse effect and passed out on her couch. Woke up and she was gone. Figured she went to the bar across the street we go to. Nope. As I was getting ready to leave, she returned with a fresh set of clothes and toiletries for me for work the next morning. She walked 9 blocks up the hill to my apartment, got me everything I needed for the next day, and came back. This was our second date.
#26
On our 4th date we got a cheap pizza and went to a park in October up north. We felk asleep and woke up freezing at 2 in the morning. Instead of getting up and leaving we just held eachother and went back asleep for another 2 hours.
I knew from that moment I was gonna marry this girl!
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#27
Not married yet but the wedding is this August.
We met on Match.com and talked for three weeks before we met in person. I was too shy to ask her out so she asked me and we met up. The first restaurant was fully booked so we went down the street to a small cafe. Again, I was super shy so during dinner I didn’t talk a lot. I was so worried she didn’t like me but we both knew, from talking through messaging, that there was more to the other person. So we decided to take a walk around town after dinner. That’s where I really started feeling more comfortable and we talked and walked for hours. At the end of the date we didn’t hug or kiss but she said “I had fun, we should do this again.” That was the best first date I’d ever had. I new from there that she was special because I just felt so comfortable and relaxed when I was with her.
That weekend after the first date she went to Florida, where her younger brother lives, to go to Disney with him so I had to wait two weeks but it was worth it. We went out again and eventually started going out weekly. Then we started seeing each other twice per week. After dating for about 8 months we started to talk about where this was going long-term. We were both 29 and felt we’re both mature so we talked about marriage and life together, how we would raise our families and work together to pay off our student loans, we talked about kids and what type of parents we’d want to be. I remember after each date when I was driving home, I told myself that I knew she was the one, that I loved her and that I wanted to spend my life with her. It wasn’t just one thing that made me feel that way, it was getting to know her as a person. I saw how caring, loving and patient she could be. I learned about the charity work and giving that she did, how she put others before herself.
So one day in January I bought an engagement ring. It wasn’t a huge ring but I knew it was the right one when I first saw it. I went to her house, sat her down on the couch and in my introverted, dorkiness said (probably not these exact words), “I think you knew this was coming for a while. I’m super nervous and hope you like this ring, so will you marry me?” She said yes. After that we went down the street and got takeout gyros and went back to her place. She called a few family members and sent pictures of the ring to a few people. Then we ate our dinner and watched Spice World, because that’s totally us. We’re getting married this August.
#28
My husband tells me he knew when he casually asked me this question on our second date:
“What time is it?”
Correct answer and the answer I gave? “It’s Howdy Doody time.”
Married 24 years in August.
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#29
When she said “You know, if you asked me to marry you, I’d say yes.”
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#30
For the most part, it was the fact that the very day we started dating she was staying at my house, not quite living there, just hanging out forever til that turned into living with me. Never thought to much about it til a year later and realize that we have never spent a day away from each other. Married Sept. 2006, and still going strong.
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#31
We were young. I was moving across the country to be with her at the time. And she got our apartment all ready before I got there.
Our bathroom was really, really small. She had purchased this blue bathroom rug for the floor. And because the rug was too large she carefully cut out these notches for the sink stand and the front of the toilet bowl so the carpet would fit perfectly flat.
She cut the bathroom rug perfectly. I knew she had to be mine.
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#32
It actually happened without much fanfare. We were in bed one night before going to sleep, talking about our relationship and our future. We had already bought a house together and had a dog, and we had talked about marriage in the past, but it wasn’t a huge priority for either of us.
Talking about how cool it would be to have our wedding be like a reunion with a lot of old friends made it seem really appealing, and we knew that we both would be staying together for pretty much the rest of our lives. She ended up just saying it in the end “So, do you want to?” and I said “Yeah, I guess I do! It makes sense!” and everything happened from there.
Completely and wholly unromantic! Yay for us! We’re now coming up on 8 years of marriage with 2 kids.
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#33
While making rice crispy treats, my future wife snuck a spoonful of the melted marshmallow and made me a fresh peanut butter and marshmallow fluff sandwich without me noticing. When I took the first bite, I knew I’d never find anyone better.
#34
Like our 4th date, at her house the episode of the Simpsons is on where they’re hiding the town’s trash everywhere. Without any prompting or ever talking about the show Doug, we both simultaneously said “STASH OUR TRASH! BEAUTIFY BLUFFINGTON!”. an absolutely inconsequential line in a mediocre show neither of us had seen in over a decade. We boned.
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#35
We had gone on two or three dates before I asked her to “be my girlfriend” and I knew the instant she said yes that we would be married one day. Her eyes just lit up like nothing else when I told her I wanted to make things official. It has felt like I can read her mind since the day I met her. I know when she’s happy, sad, upset, tired, annoyed, etc. I knew a few days before she asked me to move in with her that she was going to ask. We have been in sync pretty constantly, and I’m incredibly lucky to be married to someone with whom I’m so in tune. We dated for three years, but I knew from day one that we were going to be married. I don’t really believe in ‘soulmates’ or anything too mystical. However, if there was anyone who could change my mind about that, it’s my wife.
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