Originally Posted By goodgirl Topic: Memories Question: Describe the first time you fell in love (when, where and with whom).
Originally Posted By u k fan If we're talking in a non family way, which I guess we must be, then never. What a miserable way to start this thread!!!
Originally Posted By LVBelle It was with my hubby. I can't pinpoint a specific time when I realized that I was in love with him. I did have a specific moment when I realized I was going to marry him. We had been broken up for about 9 months and he asked to come down to Scottsdale to visit me. We had visited a few other times before but this time was different. We had lots of time to really talk. Finally, before I took him to the airport, he asked me if we could get back together. I knew if I said yes, we would end up married. I said yes.
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom OK. For the sake of romance I will tell my story. KJ and I met online on Christmas Day 1994. In the imediate days following Christmas we became very close, speaking online and on the phone. During one of our conversations KJ let me know that KJ would be attending a New Years Eve party and had a date. I knew that if I liked KJ I would have to move fast! LOL So I thought to myself. Your a Social Worker, what would a Social Worker do? 1: Start with food to meet the others safety and security needs. Well this wasn't going to happen since I was in Rhode Island and KJ was in Atlanta. So one to step 2: Start Developementally Low. While I was over at my parents home I grabbed the children's story book, The Little Brown Puppy. Now I had never read this book mind you. So that night I read KJ ( over the phone ) the book. The story is about a little brown puppy that is tried of being alone. All around him the puppy sees the other animals raising familys and finding a place to belong. So he looks far and wide but still can't find anyone to be with. Finally one night he's about to give up and he wishes on a star to find someone to spend the rest of his life with. The next day a wise grey squirel tells the puppy that he should go to a certain field in town and he will find someone who is looking for a puppy. So the puppy goes to the field and there is a boy who has been looking for a puppy. Once I finished reading that story to KJ, KJ responded and said "If your looking for a boy, I'm looking for a puppy". I had to think REAL fast how to respond to that statement with something that wasn't "weird". So I immediately said "I'm looking for someone else who wishes on stars". At this point we had never met and we didn't even know what each other looked like. KJ said "I don't care what you look like. I know I'm in love with you". We exchanged photos and yes they were decent photos. I arranged to come down for a weekend the following January. At the end of the weekend KJ dropped me off at the airport. KJ couldn't even say good-bye. It was a 2 hour flight back to Rhode Island and I sobbed the entire way home. And I knew I was in love. I visited again over spring break. Graduate School ended on May 4th, 1995 and on May 5th at 8:00 am I was on the road for Atlanta. We have been together ever since. And yes we both still wishing on stars. My advise to anyone out there is keep wishing on stars and listen to the wise grey squirrels in life!
Originally Posted By MomofPrincess It was probably when I was 18. I ended up engaged to this guy for 3 years. I finally broke up with him (we were just NOT compatible) but we are still friends today. In fact, his oldest son & mine are best friends!
Originally Posted By lesmisfan i have never really fell in love but i have had plenty of crushes my first being in kindergarten and my crush on a friend of mine named jenny. but we grew apart like some friends do.
Originally Posted By Ursula I think I was 7 and it was Donny Osmond. Seriously, I *knew* he was the one. He was cute, could sing, and was on TV. I thought about him all the time and I couldn't think straight.
Originally Posted By melekalikimaka After reading Ursula's answer then I guess I'd have to say Simon LeBon. LOL The only person I have been in love with is my husband. A friend of mine from high school worked with him and thought we were a lot alike. We lived in different states and started out as friends, going to concerts together, writing letters almost everyday. One weekend my son and I came up to go to a show with him. We spent the weekend together, still thinking we were friends. After getting home, about midweek I realized that I was falling for him. So, I wrote him a long letter. I was terrified when I sent it to him. The funny thing is that he felt the same way and wrote it in a letter and sent it on the same day that I sent mine. Ugh, so sappy. ;-)
Originally Posted By DlandJB Really and truly in love? Only twice. I did date a very nice but somewhat dull fellow for 8 years - through college and 4 years beyond. I thought I loved him, but really I loved having a date for all the dances, someone to study with, being a part of a couple. We had less and less in common over the years, but it was hard to break the habit of being together. Also, when all your friends are getting married you think you will die of you don't. I'm so glad that we didn't. He went off to the seminary (although later he left and got married) and I went on with my life... The night we broke up officially (my birthday - great timing) we went to a play at Ford's Theater. I ran into an old friend I'd known from a college theater class. Hadn't seen him in years. He told me he was doing a play in May (this was March) and I should come and see him. So I did. Through him I met my first husband...the first love of my life. Through my first husband I met DlandDug. They had gone to college together and stayed in touch over the years and miles. I knew him for 15 years before my husband died and we were already very good friends. That friendship then blossomed into probably the most complete and joy-bearing love I could ever imagine. So I'm definitely in love "for keeps."
Originally Posted By melekalikimaka I wondered how you met Dug. I didn't know that you guys had known eachother for so long.
Originally Posted By Pixie Glitter Kennesaw Tom, that is probably THE most romantic meeting/falling in love story I have ever heard. (And your comeback to the puppy/boy line was amazing!) Kennesaw Tom wins.
Originally Posted By DlandJB I immediately said "I'm looking for someone else who wishes on stars". >>> Yeah -- I'd say that's pretty great.
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom I think everyone on this board can relate to the "looking for someone who wishes on stars". LOL. I never told my parents how we met. I have told several siblings that story. So now everyone here knows too. Oh and we still have that book.
Originally Posted By GrumpysWife >>I think everyone on this board can relate to the "looking for someone who wishes on stars". << For sure, but not all of us can think that fast to throw out a romantic line like that!!
Originally Posted By goodgirl Bobby Sherman. I bought every magazine that mentioned him. I remember my family was going to the coast. We stopped at the grocery store. I ran inside to see if there were any new magazines featuring my future husband. The headline on TigerBeat read "Bobby Sherman Elopes!!" I was devastated. I thought I was going to throw up right then and there. I bought the magazine. I felt so betrayed. My heart was broken. I got in the car and started to read the article. Duh. It was a story about how when he was something like six years old, he and a neighbor girl ran away to get married but came home later in the day because they were hungry for lunch.
