I got the butterflies for the first time and they haven’t gone away eleven years later!! Even though it took a while for the engagement, it was okay because he wanted to wait for me to finish college. Which I love him sooooooo much for.
—Ken
Postscript : We are still together and engaged.
Three months into our relationship and we had both gotten a bad case of food poisoning and it was coming out both ends. He got better before I did, but one day we were driving home and I asked him to pull over so I could vomit. He had to pull over three other times during the drive. On the last time, 50 feet from my apartment, I had to get out and vomit…I also pooped my pants. I knew it was love when he set down a shirt for me to sit on and let me get back into his car.
—C.O.
Postscript : We’ve been married almost a year.
She listened, asked questions, and cared about how things ended with my ex. Then she raced me down the ramp at the ballpark in Arlington (home of the Texas Rangers), and watched the fireworks from my truck. I waited until I was sure to tell her, but it started that night.
—Love’s bigger in Texas
Postscript: Married five years now, have a wonderful little boy, and love each other more and more each day.
I was working as a cook’s assistant at my college with the head cook one day. I had an off-day and burned 24 sheet pans of pizza, 4 sheet pans of potatoes and 3 huge steamer pans of vegetables. And he didn’t get mad. He panicked a little because we had 300 people coming for lunch, but didn’t say one negative thing to me and I thought, “This man would make a great husband.”
—Cindy
Postscript: I eventually did marry him, but as life changed me, I realized that he wasn’t what I wanted and ended it as nicely as I possibly could.
She’d said good food made music inside her head, and sometimes when she ate something good she’d swing her fingers like an orchestra conductor’s wand. We had two friends over, one of whom had brought a pet dog. I saw her in the kitchen preparing a snack tray, and the dog went in to investigate. She popped a snack in her mouth and swung her fingers to the music. Then she popped a snack in the dog’s mouth and swung her fingers in front of the dog’s nose so he could hear the music.
—Mark
Postscript: We’ve been married 7 years now.
We started dating in October but I was leaving to study abroad in France in January. We eventually had “the talk” and he told me he wanted to stay together. I was touched that he didn’t want to break up or try to convince me to stay in the States. When he flew to visit me in March, I told him it was the single greatest gesture anyone had ever made. While he was visiting, he told me he loved me.
—MonPetitChou
Postscript: It’ll be two years this October and he’s still the man of my dreams.
A guy I was dating spent a sunny Saturday driving me to and from the suburbs outside of the city — a three-hour trip with traffic — so I could try out an organic mattress.
—Amy
Postscript: He was a commitment-phobe so we never got to test the bed properly once it was delivered.
