20+ Women in Love Share the Wholesome Moment When They Realized They Wanted to Spend the Rest of Their Life With Their S.O.

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Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor
Sep 14, 2023 3:00 PM EDT

Love stories have been over told time and time again. Hollywood and even independent filmmakers take love and use it as the base for some wild storytelling. It's entertaining, but let's be honest, it's not really how life is. You're not going to actually stop time and see lightening bolts when you meet your true love. Well, you won't literally, but maybe metaphorically. 

Below, we've found a thread of such wholesome and romantic love stories that are better than the Hollywood ones. Why? Because they are real. These women might not have had your Blockbuster meet-cute, but they sure experienced the best part of life in real time. Falling in love is like nothing else you'll ever experience, it's what philosophers and poets have said to be the reason to live. Love can come in many forms, and these stories below show that love can hit you like a ton of bricks at any given moment. 

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    Font - Posted by u/ORemii 2 days ago Women of reddit, when and how did you realize that you wanted to spend the rest of your life with your S.O.?
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    Font - TattooPuddle. 2 days ago After our first road trip together. Normally after a long trip with someone, I want to have my time to myself away from them to recharge. When I got home after that trip though, I still wanted to hang out. That hasn't changed.
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    Font - pretentious_run_r200 2 days ago Similar. We had our first Memorial Day at his parents out of town and I'm not a cryer but when we got back to his apartment, I cried hysterically because I didn't want to go home without him. He was so confused, he had never saw me emotional but that
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    Font - was the first time I got to spend more than a few hours with him and I DID NOT want to be without him. We got married the next year. I tried so hard (in the beginning) not to fall in love with that man and here we are 9ish years later with the most perfectly imperfect marriage.
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    Font - kimtenisqueen 2 days ago It was about into a year of dating. I loved him, we lived together, but wasn't 1000% sold yet. We got a new dog, she came from Craigslist and she was 9 months old and "too much" for the owners older dog. We wanted a friendly dog to help bring my nervous anxiety dog out of his shell. We met at a park and the two dogs hit it off so we took her home.
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    Font - Very quickly we came to learn that she would pee from excitement every time we came home, and she would jump up and lick your face AGGRESSIVELY. Like it was pathological that she HAD to lick your face or she wasn't okay.
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    Font - My husband (bf at the time) got upset one day when he came home and she peed on the carpet. He was all cursing and stomping around. I turned to him and told him that being pissed about it was unacceptable. We could either take the dog back now before I got attached, or he could learn how to properly train her and put the time and effort into it.
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    Font - He thought about what I said for a little while and then he very quietly came to me and said "I want to keep her". He then spent hours(days) watching videos and learning about dog behavior. We started letting her outside when we got home before coming in the house so she could potty outside.
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    Font - Then we transitioned to crate training until she really understood outside is where we pee. We practiced not kicking faces and giving her tricks and other behaviors to do instead. Mica bonded with my husband so intensely sometimes I wonder if I'm the "other woman". But watching him go through that process solidified to me that he is a keeper and the man I want to have children with. Mica is 9 now and I don't think he's every gotten frustrated at her again.
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    Font - saltierthangoldfish 2 days ago I was making us smoothies for breakfast. I lifted up the blender and it wasn't attached to the base; the full blender of smoothie went everywhere - absolutely coated the counter, the floors. Huge mess and breakfast ruined. I froze because that's exactly the kind of things previous partners and my abusive father had yelled at me for.
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    Font - But she started laughing and grabbed the paper towels. Not laughing at me, laughing because it was just really funny. And we laughed and cleaned it up together. I realized I would always be safe with her. That she would help me solve problems. That little things wouldn't become big things.
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    Font - ● basketballgame2mrrow 2 days ago We were dating for about 4 months; when my (now our) cat got a horrible infection. He was my calm during that storm. He split the vet bill with me; refused to let me pay it alone as "we are partners in everything" 3 years later and we truly are partners in everything.
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    Font - kayleekatblu 2 days ago Honestly after our first meeting I knew I felt really connected to Him and didn't want to be away from him ever again. Later that year in the summer we spent a day just hanging out in his office at home, just each playing computer games while watching movies on his second
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    Font - screen. It was just a perfect simple day, and it clicked suddenly that he was the love of my life. We just had our first child last month and couldn't be happier R+K
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    Font - Chickenandchippy · 2 days ago ● One week after we met. We were having a night time picnic and he was just talking about his life and experiences so openly. I realized he felt comfortable being vulnerable with me and I did with him and we grew very protective over each other. I couldn't go a day without seeing him and he just felt like my other half. We got married less than 3 years after that.
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    Font - Ewace246 2 days ago ● About 6 months into the relationship, he came to live with me and my family for a month during the winter holidays. I was already in love with him, but nervous that the reality of living with him may not measure up to the ideal in my head.
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    Font - Not only did I never get sick of spending time with him, but he also fit perfectly into my family and everyone loved him. He cooked for my mother, ran errands, fixed things around the house, and even gave my little brother and his girlfriend emotional counseling after they had a fight/misunderstanding and were both panicking and crying.
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    Font - He just seemed to be able to fix any problem that arose, and did it gladly, even though it wasn't expected of him at all. I had already experienced him calming me when I had a panick attack, but I was still just so in awe of him, and knew for sure that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with him.
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    Font - BooMartina 2 days ago For me there wasn't an "aha moment" or anything like that. The wish has just been building up since we first met. It took us about four years together before we got married and by that time we were both convinced that we wanted to get old together. 15 years later and we still are.
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    Font - fairygodmotherfckr. 2 days ago The night I met him. We talked all evening, and he walked me home to the hotel I was staying... I didn't sleep a wink that night, my heart was glowing. Silly as it sounds, I knew I would marry him.
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    Font - Awful as it sounds, I didn't know if he had a girlfriend and was willing to go to war over him... he didn't have a gf, thank god. But I was serious about him right away. And he must have felt the same, a few months later he asked me to marry him.
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    Font - swolbeans 2 days ago one night, my husband and i were just laying in bed at his house and we had only been dating for about four or five months i think. i asked him what his goal in life is since we were talking about deep stuff. he said, "my biggest goal in life is to be a dad." and i was like blown away because i always told people my goal in life was to be a mom and i told him that in response.
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    Font - now five years later we're married with one beautiful baby and another on the way. and every day he reminds me how lucky we are to just be thriving together and completing our life goals together. we can't imagine ourselves without one another.
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    Font - pseudonymous13 2 days ago ● When I met my S.O., I got this exciting sense of intuition. I felt as though I had known him my whole life. He was nerdy, well- read, informed, knowledgeable, was quick to produce a sparkling smile and had a humorous glint in his eye.
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    Font - It was like meeting a kindred soul; or the best movie montage you can imagine of two character's cosmic intertwining of their stories. I will swear, I could see his inner child so clearly, that I felt I'd known him since we were in elementary school. Like we had been sweethearts all throughout life, but had been waiting for the right moment to be together, and this was it.
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    Font - All of that, simultaneously, in one moment. We had our first date, and he was exactly as expected. We kissed after that date. Read that again: Two very introverted people, kissed, within 1 hour of meeting. And from there, we couldn't be apart. TLDR: Pretty quickly.
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    Font - ThrowRa_IceQ 2 days ago . I met him on vacation with my friends, funnily enough it was to celebrate my birthday along with graduation. Somehow we got onto the topic of family and I had told him the story of my first birthday with my family (I was adopted). I mentioned to him how I was a little sad we didn't get to go up to the cabin birthday trip anymore because my family of 8 had grown substantially, everyone had spouses kids you get it, the cabin just couldn't fit us all in, plus it was
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    Font - Anyway after some time our friendship turned to FWB, he surprised me with a cabin trip on my birthday, what I didn't know was that he rented out this incredible cabin which could house my entire family, friends and a few extended relatives. We arrived and the typical 'surprise' happened with everyone jumping out, safe to say I got very emotional, I couldn't even remember telling him about about the birthday situation but he remembered. I just knew then that I wanted to marry him.
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    Font - bisapiens 2 days ago edited 2 days ago I went on a mini rant about how I wanted to read more fantasy books where most of the characters are women, rather than settling for books with one or two women. A few days later he gave me his phone to look something up and "fantasy books with female characters" came up as a recent search. My favorite part is that he didn't mean for me to see that. He just heard it was important to me and decided to find some books.
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    Font - kaitmck 2 days ago ● I knew I was falling for him when we spent an entire evening hanging out and he sent me a song to listen to on my way home. I still know exactly what section of road I was on and what part of the song that was playing when I realized I had feelings for him.
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    Font - We moved in together fairly early on in our relationship and it felt like we'd been doing life together forever. Not that we didn't have disagreements or difficulties, but even those felt insignificant and everything about being with him felt right. I tell him all the time that he could have proposed to me six months in and I would have said yes and married him right away. We've been together 8.5 years and just celebrated 5 years of marriage this July.
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    Font - im-not-annoying 2 days ago The first morning that I woke up beside him. I was staring at him and wondered to myself how I love this feeling of home and peacefulness when I wake up beside him and that's how I want my everydays to feel like. I'm never a morning person, but that was the first time that I effortlessly smiled after waking up.
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    Font - destria 2 days ago . 오 It's hard to really pinpoint an exact moment, it built up over time. Maybe the first time we really had to confront it was when we graduated university. We'd been together since the first week of uni and now we were making decisions about our futures. I realised I wanted to spend the rest of my life with him because every decision took him into account.
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    Font - He did the same. We consulted each other throughout and made each other our priority. We looked for jobs together, we ended up moving cities together. I just couldn't imagine a future where I'd be happy without him.
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    Font - knittingntea 2 days ago When he kept climbing out of the pool to drunkenly kiss me (sitting in a lawn chair on the pool deck) then cannonballing back in repeatedly the first time I met all of his friends and some neighbors at the neighborhood party, and only two weeks after our first date. And making sure I was okay with hanging out with everyone and not socially drained the whole night.
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    Font - I also agree with the road trip comments. We went remote tent camping a 12 hour drive to northern Michigan in October with our two dogs after a month and a half of knowing each other and we just worked together so well through that and the issues we had for the three days (40-50°F, raining, tent leaking and flooded, wet wood, me being on my period, sleeping in the truck after the tent flooded). 5 years later and we're engaged and just as in love, if not more.
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    Font - Xannarial 2 days ago Let me preface this: I have not wanted children, and been okay with not getting married for years now. It's been almost a decade at this point. I was just...working one day. Cleaning up, getting ready to go home. And a thought just floated to the surface of my brain "I could marry this man" It scared the hell out of me.
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    Font - It'd only been six months at that point. What cemented it for me though, was the fact that he flipped those first two points on their heads. I'd give this man babies if he wanted. I no longer saw myself alone - I saw him in my future...and I wanted that. He never thought hed get married again, but he feels the same way. We had a very intense conversation about it in the wee hours of the morning one sunday.... we're in no rush. Even if we don't get married, he's the one I want for the rest
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    Font - Fatttpenguin 2 days ago Sounds weird but the moment I met him I knew we would get married and grow old together... I literally told my therapist right after and was like "I literally just know we will. Not being "crazy" for lack of a better term.. I just know." And then 1 year later and we both proposed to each other at the same time on family vacation, not one person in the family spoiled it for either of us that the other was proposing... everyone knew and was in on it! We got
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    Font - married a few months after getting engaged! We are now 4 years later married with a house and starting a family. Honestly yes we both are fallible but man, I have an amazing one and I know there's no end in sight unless one of us dies. We still giggle at the fact that we give eachother butterflies and can make one another blush... It's lovely and I hope we keep the magic alive far into the future. Ⓒ
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    Font - rachellee98 1 day ago My husband (at the time bf) and I went to a concert with friends about a week after we started dating (met 2 months earlier). I got wayyyy too drunk and by the time we got back to his house was sick as hell. We went inside and I felt the puke come up so for some drunken reason decided to go out the back door to yak on the lawn. He followed me and kneeled down next to me holding my hair. I
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    Font - looked at him to say thank you and more came up without me realizing in time. I puked all over his shoes and was absolutely MORTIFIED. I started apologizing and he just reassured me it was not a big deal and kept asking if I was okay. He took the boots off, brought me inside, cleaned me up, helped me upstairs, brought me water without me asking and asked if cuddles would help me feel better. The entire time he reassured me that it wasn't a big deal and that a little puke never killed anyo
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    Font - next day that I told him I love him while I was crawling up the stairs by telling me he was in love with me. Long story short we got married 4 months later and just celebrated our 4 year anniversary. I knew from the moment I met him I loved him but that night solidified that he was/is the one I wanted to spend my life with.
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