My boyfriend and I had been dating a couple months when I went with him to a family dinner in another city. After dinner, we were in the living room with his two brothers sitting on the couch. He was looking at me, and I asked him what he was thinking. He looked up at me and simply said, “You are in the category of people I love.”  At that moment no one else was in the room and nothing else mattered.

—Claire

Postscript: A year later we are still together, and though we are young we know we will make it.

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At some point in my youth, my brain conjured up a scenario of true love: the man would lift my face up to his and say, “Look at me, I love you.”

I met him a couple years ago but recently reconnected at a friend’s wedding. At the after-party, I saw him walking toward me from the adjacent room. “Where are you going?” I asked. His eyes sparkled and when he said, “Wherever you are,” it immediately rang synonymous with “Look at me, I love you.”

—Lucky!

Postscript: We both feel lucky and know we’ll be together till the end.

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After our second date, he canceled a trip back to see his family so we could spend more time together. His mother called to tell him there were plenty more fish in the sea, but only one mother. He replied that there was no one else in the world like me.

—Katherine

Postscript: 3 years later and still going strong.

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It was love when I was looking for a new home for my cat, because my roommate’s cat was always beating up on mine. He volunteered to take my cat and look after him at his place. The cat now belongs to both of us!

—Annette

Postscript: Aftermath: My cat loves it there, and loves my boyfriend too!

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After we spent the night together, we couldn’t spend the day together because he “had things to do.” Later that night, we were lying together in his bed, snuggling and reading together, when suddenly he turned off the lights and told me to look up at the ceiling. Glow-in-the-dark stars covered the entire ceiling, spelling out “I love you.”

–Iris

Postscript: He’d spent the whole day working on it! I told him that I loved him too, and we’ve been together ever since.

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I met him at work and only hardly knew him when I blurted out an incredibly cheeky, low-brow remark. I immediately regretted it, but he laughed heartily. Later I asked him if he had seen the film Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay and he replied by quoting me lines from the film. That’s when I first fell for him.

—irie

Postscript: It didn’t last. I still miss him and feel awful about messing it up. And I still love Harold and Kumar.

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I was dating someone at the time who had just cheated on me and met him through a mutual friend. During a night of heavy drinking he kissed me and I let him. I told my boyfriend at the time, but we all still hung out together two nights later. That night, I knew it wasn’t just a one night thing when we held hands and it felt so natural. More ended up occurring and I didn’t even regret it one bit. Afterward, we knew it had to be discussed, and ended up talking nonstop for hours.

—Samantha

Postscript: I quickly ditched the cheater and have been incredibly happy with my new guy ever since.

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