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Flowergirl
18th November 2004, 01:54 PM
How long did it take for you to realise that your spouse/partner was "the one"??
I knew the first night I met my husband that I wanted to grow old with him. I went home and told my sister that I met the man I was going to marry. He also went home and told his mother the same. We were engaged within 4 months and married after 12 months and everyone thought we were crazy and it would never last. We've been married well over 25 years ( nope - still not quite ready to admit how old I am) so we got it pretty right. I still love him like mad and he adores me :D

What's your story? :)
Oh what the hell - I've been married 28 years - I'm 47 - my real name is Noreen ( which i hate!!!!!!!!) but I like to be called Reenie. Thats me!!!!

amanda
18th November 2004, 02:03 PM
Hey Reenie! :D

I have absolutely no idea at what particular point I decided - it just sort of came on gradually! But we met at work - he thought coz of my bouncy nature that I was an airhead :? But soon found out I had a decent brain. We were work acquaintences for 1.5 years before we became friends for a few months. Then one day I called him up to ask him on a date to the movies (thank goodness I got voicemail - a bit nervous - didn't realise what I was doing until the phone was ringing). We got engaged after 1.5 years, then married 1.5 years after that (I had to finish uni first). So first together in 1999, married 02/2002 - I can't believe we have been together so long! I am an old married woman :lol:

gazgolf1
18th November 2004, 02:18 PM
When Sandra peed on the stick and it turned blue ! :oops:

Jeez I nearly peed then. :lol:

3oneday
18th November 2004, 02:24 PM
still don't, obviously this thread will be dominated by the female/romantic members ??? G69 is ????

andylo
18th November 2004, 02:27 PM
Well, I have been serious about my every relationships it just others just don't treat the same.

I don't have a particular "The One" feeling... although there're heaps of "The One I wanna :wink: " throughout my life :lol:

For this particular girl, Carol. She's the one I really want to marry her. (But so is others) But hey, at least I bought a few diamond ring (small one only) to her, compare others exs which = 0 :p

Right from the beginning I was interested at her at all, she's pretty and tiny... but it wasn't trigger my heart at that moment. In fact it was another friend who are interested on her.

But that friend was so lamn so I have to take to responbility to "info gathering" and I become a closer friend to Carol.

The thing is: the more I talk to her the more I found our simularities... not hobby wise, but how we think and point of views on a lot of different aspects. So we become very close friend.

After 2 months we get quite close but I need to go back to HK during uni holiday for 2.5 months. She won't be back to HK for another month. During that period I emailed her and she emailed me back. And it become quite a habbit for a short while.

A lot of time I will feel a bit down when I don't receive her mails and couple of time I actually rush back home for her emails, reply and go straight out again. Mum realise there's something wrong with me so she ask my BLOODY YOUNGER BROTHER check my email history. The little barstard manage to dig out EVERYTHING and report to my mum.

That nite my mum ask if I have fell for a girl I have no idea what she's talking about. But she said it's unusal that I will go back home for a email and go out again. (I usually don't back to home until 3am :p) So she tell me I have fall in love!

Long story short, I keep emailing her, tell her I do care about her. She's happy. She refused my friend, back to HK and after 2 weeks we are together.

The story is quite long but I am afaird it's a bit bored to look at other's romantic story... We have be together more than 3.5 years now and apart from golf and shopping problem we are 99% perfect.

I love her so much and I believe the same on the other side :D

Fishman Dan
18th November 2004, 02:30 PM
I married Anita at her family farm in Casino April this year. After 5 years of 'courting' i had decided that it was time. I took the ring up during the Christmas trip, and proposed on New Years day 2003. It was meant to be a week or so earlier, but that's a story i can bore you with another day.

We decided Easter 2004 because the weather would be better than January in Casino! Unfortunately mid-2002 we lost Anita's grandfather, 6 weeks before the day my grandfather passed away, and 8 days beforehand we lost Nan (both Dad's parents). They were both ill for a long time, and there was some relief when it happened before the event.

It was a perfect day, exactly as we had pictured - although i never thought, no matter how much planning, a wedding could go without anything going wrong?

Our future was always going to be built around the fact that one day Anita was going to return to the country. I knew i wanted a future together, but i had to accept the fact that i had to leave the city.

After numerous visits to northern NSW i need no more convincing, it's just a matter of time. It's gods-own country up there - and i'm not even religeous. We're both on good wickets down here in the city, and we're happy to stay while the goings good, but it could be 1 month or 3 years, but we'll end up there soon enough.

Can't wait - golf courses up there are fantastic, affordable and the weather is always good!!!

Iain
18th November 2004, 02:30 PM
Oh what the hell - I've been married 28 years - I'm 47 - my real name is Noreen ( which i hate!!!!!!!!) but I like to be called Reenie. Thats me!!!!
Don't worry Reenie, it had to come out sooner or later.... :wink:

AndyP
18th November 2004, 02:39 PM
Noreen....NOW THAT'S FUNNY ! :smt043 :smt044 :smt046
You bastard! :smt011

I couldn't figure out what Reenie was from. :-k

Like Mandy, I don't know when the moment was. Certainly wasn't at first site, I would never have those sorts of thoughts about a roommate's girlfriend. :oops:

Started going out with Beck in 96, lived together same year, proposed/engaged in 97 on her 19th, married 4/4/99, first child 04. BTW I'm 28.

Flowergirl
18th November 2004, 02:51 PM
Noreen....NOW THAT'S FUNNY ! :smt043 :smt044 :smt046

Yes........as AP said - you are a bastard!!! But at least you didn't make fun of my age - yet :wink:
All my FRIENDS call me Reenie - you just keep calling me Noreen :twisted:

Fishman Dan
18th November 2004, 02:53 PM
Noreen....NOW THAT'S FUNNY ! :smt043 :smt044 :smt046All my FRIENDS call me Reenie - you just keep calling me Noreen :twisted:

Ka-Pow!

30/15, "Reenie".

Flowergirl
18th November 2004, 02:53 PM
Andylo - I loved your story. I really hope that you and your girl have a happy and long life together - maybe she'll get interested in golf one day!

Flowergirl
18th November 2004, 02:55 PM
still don't, obviously this thread will be dominated by the female/romantic members ??? G69 is ????

"Still don't "- does this mean you have never found her - you did and lost her - or the one you are with is not "the one" ?????

amanda
18th November 2004, 02:56 PM
We have be together more than 3.5 years now and apart from golf and shopping problem we are 99% perfect.

I love her so much and I believe the same on the other side :D
I'm sure you two can come to a compromise :smt008

Keza_G
18th November 2004, 03:24 PM
Well my hubby and I met at work, Inghams Chickens, in Sept 1998..... It was instant for me but he needed convincing....


I asked him out to the Pub for a few brews, which turned into a drinking comp, ended up at Treasury Casino is Brisbane... 5 hours into it he supposedly proposed, but I can't even remeber how I got home....

That was Nov 1998, we were married Jan 2nd 1999, first baby girl April 10th 2000, next baby girl Feb 10th 2002, absolutely in love with him....
although I do have a fetish for me with glasses over 30.... and my hubby just had Laser vision and no longer wears glasses....damn.....

He's now convinced and loves me back heaps.... I think.... As long as I let him hit a few past me.... It's all good....

In fact he got me into golf 5 years ago.... so there you go...

Keza_G

Courty
18th November 2004, 05:52 PM
Well, I met this girl one day (she actaully went on a few dates with a mate of mine first, but that didn't go anywhere). Anyhow, we started dating and got pretty serious. One day after we had gotten engaged, she told me that the first time she saw me, she said to herself "I'm going to marry that gorgeous hunk* one day" (*artistic licence :twisted: ) Moving right along, I dumped her when she turned psycho on me. She really was a loony. :roll:
I started seeing another girl, who I later found out had coerced a mutual friend to arrange a 'chance' meeting between us. The meeting went ahead, and I liked what I saw (as did she) and we got together. We were engaged in '99 and married in July 2000. What can I say, we are completely different in many ways, but just work together really well. 4 happy years down, many more to come.

McMw
18th November 2004, 05:54 PM
jean doesn't read the board...so I can say whatever I want.... :twisted:

I'll take a quote from 3oneday....

Still Don't... :wink: :lol:

3oneday
18th November 2004, 07:31 PM
"Still don't "- does this mean you have never found her - you did and lost her - or the one you are with is not "the one" ?????only had her a couple of weeks, changed a few things at the start and it is going beautifully now :smt055 , ahhh, my dearest 580XD Tour :smt057

We are talking about our drivers, aren't we ??????????????

Pete :?


:lol: :lol: :lol: :smt035 :smt044 :smt043

Jarro
18th November 2004, 07:35 PM
"Still don't "- does this mean you have never found her - you did and lost her - or the one you are with is not "the one" ?????only had her a couple of weeks, changed a few things at the start and it is going beautifully now :smt055 , ahhh, my dearest 580XD Tour :smt057

We are talking about our drivers, aren't we ??????????????

Pete :?


:lol: :lol: :lol: :smt035 :smt044 :smt043

I think if that was the case, Nudgee would need to change his name to Rocco 8)

BrisVegas
18th November 2004, 08:37 PM
although I do have a fetish for men with glasses over 30.... and my hubby just had Laser vision and no longer wears glasses....damn.....


Hmm, I just turned 30 and need glasses for distance vision. You hit the ball a LONG way.... I'd need to keep my glasses on to see them land....

:wink: :smt047

Nah, just kidding! I'm happily married, with a bub on the way. :D

goughy
18th November 2004, 08:50 PM
When she told me she was the one.

Actually, we were doing a part-time night tafe course and a group of us were going out to get smashed on a saturday night. Rob lived 'down the range' so she was crashing at my place (we both were living at home). Well, everyone else pulled out so it was just the two of us.

After that I think we went something like 6 months with only spending one day apart in that time. A few months later we moved to brissie.

Now if you want an interesting story you should hear about how I 'popped' the question.

Actually, she'd kill me if I told ya's.

markTHEblake
18th November 2004, 09:14 PM
We were set up on a blind date, by a mutual freind. I guess the 'moment' came when a few months later i returned from a golf week in Alice springs and she was waiting at the airport for me. When we got back to my place another girl was waiting for me. (she got the message and left)

after about 3 more months or so my wife to be went back to indonesia after her visa run out, and i went over to visit a few times.

Neither of us proposed, the wedding just happened as if it was meant to be.

The first time I planned to ask her parents permission to marry, they said No, before i asked. (bloody waste of a $1000 airline ticket). About 6 months later i went back to ask again, this time they said Yes, before I asked.

In Indonesia the marriage celebrant announces the wedding by banging a hammer on the table - just like a judge sentencing a man to death, except in the latter case you only get 10 years.

Eag's
18th November 2004, 10:50 PM
I met my wife through a female work mate. We were out at the local club
getting stuck into the happy hour, when I decided to ask her to dance. She told me to bugger off in no uncertain terms :( (later found out she had only got out of a long relationship 2 months earlier)

Anyways I headed over to the bar and was getting on very well with a bar maid I had my eye on :smt047 that was until she turned up with these 2 massive blokes she had been dancing with all night :shock: They turn out to be a couple of Mount Isa miners in town for a big one that night.

She then proceeds to tell them to "piss off" and sits on my lap, at which point I see my life flash before my eyes :smt103 (thank god I had the brown undies on that night) thankfully for my sake these blokes were to drunk to give a crap and proceeded to walk out.

We end up spending the next 3 hours sitting there talking and hitting it of really well.

Got engaged after 3 months and married 12 months later.
We have been married 10 years now :)
Kerri is not only my wife, but my best friend :wink:

cazandpaul
19th November 2004, 05:03 AM
Saw this cutie around the course and thought to myself "and she plays golf". Being the super pessimist thought I had no chance but we played golf a few times which lead to our first date - where did the time go that night?

I think we both knew pretty much straight away - we've been together for 8 years, married for 6 and couldn't imagine being apart (except for men's comp day 8) ) - just kidding Caz :oops:

Golfgirl
19th November 2004, 08:50 AM
I met Matt's mother at a golf tournament on the Gold Coast, where she and my mother proceeded to get their heads together and plan out our future - which had me in stitches because I had only ever seen Matt in the pro shop and had no intention of dating him....

Our first date was a real fizzer.... Stilted conversation, bad movie, and I had a migraine headache coming on....

Our second date, Matt cooked me dinner at his place..... when I started dozing off on the lounge later that night, he asked me to stay over and swore that he wouldn't lay a finger on me.... I went home!

After dating for a while, I came home one day to find my bags packed - my dad said that I was never home, so it might be time to leave the nest.... so we moved in together (officially :roll: ).

When I finally realised he was "the one"... well, one day my mother said that Matt reminded her of Ronald McDonald (tall, curly hair, big feet and big nose), and I remember that I was mortified, because I thought he was such an amazing guy that I couldn't believe that she was thinking of looks.... and after a dating a long string of really good looking but emotionally crippled men... I had found "the one".....

We've been togther nearly 5 years, we've been married for 3 1/2..... and I can quite easily picture growing old together....

wavemaker
19th November 2004, 05:02 PM
the night we met. we had both been at a furys concert and fell in to step as we walked out of the irish club and headed for gillhoolies. found we had similar beliefs politically and on social justice issues. so we ended up in a deep and meaningful rave whilst i guzzled killkenny and she got into the whisky. i asked if she wanted to go to the renoir to picasso exhibition the following day, she was already going. we did the exhibition then a long lunch which became dinner, and we have been together ever since.

clikchic
5th December 2004, 05:13 PM
When she told me she was the one.

Actually, we were doing a part-time night tafe course and a group of us were going out to get smashed on a saturday night. Rob lived 'down the range' so she was crashing at my place (we both were living at home). Well, everyone else pulled out so it was just the two of us.

After that I think we went something like 6 months with only spending one day apart in that time. A few months later we moved to brissie.

Now if you want an interesting story you should hear about how I 'popped' the question.

Actually, she'd kill me if I told ya's.

Geeze goughy, you make it sound sooooo romantic! NOT! Surely you can do better than that??? HUH??? :roll:

Jarro
5th December 2004, 06:20 PM
keep it behind closed doors 'eh clikchic :wink: :lol:

goughy
5th December 2004, 07:26 PM
keep it behind closed doors 'eh clikchic :wink: :lol:

he he! ;-)

markm
5th December 2004, 08:19 PM
married my wife after 7 years of courtship, we met via a mutial friend and went to Rally Australia together as a group, from basically that moment I knew that I was going to marry this person...still took me 7 years to get there though.

We both had things we wanted to do and I was a mechanic at the time I knew that I wasnt going to be able to provide much for us at that time.

Years went on and I went back to study, got a job in IT and started to contribute to the communal income.

Proposed to my wife and we were married 12 months later, November 9th 2002.

Life has been great and we love each others company more than ever.

Thats my story....Oh, my name is really Mark(no surprise), 26 years old

Flowergirl
6th December 2004, 02:32 PM
7 years Mark...........well I suppose you can't rush these things can you. But hey........you're only 26.........yep....seven years was a good idea. 19 is far too young to get married..........oh shoot.that's how old I was :D
Welcome to the Ozgolf family by the way :wink:

sms316
31st May 2012, 12:03 PM
Probably about two weeks after we met. I was staying at Mel's place and she asked if I wanted to watch a DVD in bed. Being the smooth operator that I am, I said "how about a porno?". She then told me to look in the top drawer and there were 10 of them in there. :)

dave1
31st May 2012, 04:44 PM
Before we met I had planned a hike in tassie (overland track at craddle mountain)

After 5 weeks into our relationship (just casual dating to that point)

I invited her to come. She accepted. We went on different flights. 8 days in the wilderness is a great way to get to know someone and it was.
We had an argument on day 3 - she was complaining about a sore knee - told her to harden the "F" up.......

Rest is history .....Married 9 years 2 happy healthy boys

IamViva
31st May 2012, 04:59 PM
my missus and i have been going steady for awhile now... 10 years in november, still not engaged and no kids.
might think about a ring this year and then get set for a long engagement :D

mike
31st May 2012, 04:59 PM
From the first nanosecond.

IamViva
31st May 2012, 05:01 PM
From the first nanosecond.

sensational rack?

sms316
31st May 2012, 05:01 PM
sensational rack? They would be at his eye level too.

BrettM
31st May 2012, 05:32 PM
In late 1997 I was 2IC at Laguna Quays and was working hard with the Super getting the place looking good (we eventually got it to No. 1 in 1998.) His wife moved back to Melbourne to be with family before the birth of their twins while he stayed on until just before their births. He had a 3 bedroom place by the 1st fairway, and as I was driving a fair way each day, asked whether I wanted to move into the spare room to help out with rent. Well that escalated into long days followed by big nights on the beers which left the place looking like a bomb hit it. So we decided to get a girl into the spare room to help clean us up a bit. We put a note up internally within the resort and has the conference and events co-ordinator keen to move in. I hadn't met her, but she made a time to come down to the apartment to take a look one evening.

I opened the knock on the door and knew straight away. We were engaged 6 months later, and married 9 months after meeting. That will be 14 years next month now with a beautiful 3 year old girl. And today just picked up the keys to our new home we have bought up behind the 12th green at Brookwater.

BrisVegas
31st May 2012, 05:57 PM
I opened the knock on the door and knew straight away. We were engaged 6 months later, and married 9 months after meeting. That will be 14 years next month now with a beautiful 3 year old girl. And today just picked up the keys to our new home we have bought up behind the 12th green at Brookwater.

Nice work and congrats on the new house! Is that your place on the corner across the road behind the green? I've only bladed one approach shot over there... :wink:

Webster
31st May 2012, 06:00 PM
Nice story BrettM. I love a happy ending.

IamViva
31st May 2012, 06:13 PM
Nice story BrettM. I love a happy ending.
as much as this guy?

http://s3-ak.buzzfed.com/static/campaign_images/terminal05/2012/5/9/11/whats-so-funny-about-the-john-travolta-sexual-ass-1-26517-1336575798-0_big.jpg

Webster
31st May 2012, 06:15 PM
He loves to give the happy ending.

paulyboy
31st May 2012, 06:21 PM
Married 30 years last December, still not convinced.

razaar
31st May 2012, 06:53 PM
hahaha Paul, she must like ginger nuts.:lol: