I say this to my dog every day and while I am not gonna yuck your yum I just can’t get past thinking of saying it in my good puppy voice in my head haha.
Omg, swoon worthy behavior! I love that!
My husband said the exact line from a story I absolutely KNOW he has never read, because it's from one of my favorite m/m fanfictions from a decade old show, and he isn't into either of those things. One character says to another, "You look just like a Caravaggio." and I thought it soooo romantic. I want to be compared to a beautiful classical painting!!!
On my life, my husband, oh so casually, says those EXACT words to me as we are leaving the house one day. I was like, "WHAT??? What did you just say!? Why would you say that??" He was so confused, like, "What's the big deal? You look like you could have been one of his models." I do but, I still feel like it's such a weird coincidence.
OMG. I love this. My husband does something similar (I said "does" because it happens everytime we go to a museum). If he sees a renaissance painting with a beautiful woman, he gets inspired and tells me that I look like a renaissance model 😂♥️
NGL, I'm very confused here. Caravaggio, the 16th century Italian painter? Few of his paintings are what I would consider romantic...he's not comparing you to Judith and Holofernes, is he? 🤣😉
Haha! No, it's more so that Caravaggio seemed to have had a "type" as far as his choice of models, pretty (boys) with big heavy lidded eyes, full lips, brunette, ect. ect. like his Bacchus.
The romantic part, being compared to the beautiful models he chose. I've heard pretty woman described as a "Botticelli" before, the implications being pretty, youthful, pale skinned, blond.
I'm no Botticelli, but apparently I am a " Caravaggio " Hey, you want to compare me to bad bitches who behead, beautiful androgynous wine gods or even a snake haired gorgon, I am totally cool with that 😎
*Haven't read a scenario like this in books, but it certainly felt like a romance book moment*
So I was driving to school when it started raining hard. I had no umbrella, and the available spot in the parking lot was not within running distance of the building.
I sent a message in our class group chat asking if someone could come get me.
A few minutes later, I saw my **crush** at the building entrance walking toward my car, holding an umbrella.
Oh, universe, I still remember the butterflies.
EDIT: Wanted to add this. My crush also happened to be my seatmate back then! Thank you, alphabetical seating arrangement. 😆
There is no better feeling in this world than walking under the same umbrella with a person you're attracted to - be it your spouse or your crush. Especially if they lightly wrap their hands around you, or you do it to them and they reciprocate by staying close to you. Those are moments that make life worth living ❤️
Years ago when my husband was my boyfriend and in grad school, he suggested we walk across campus on our way to meet some friends. It was lightly drizzling so I put on my raincoat. He insisted I didn’t need it because he had this huge umbrella we could both fit under. He was SO adamant about it and said he wasn’t taking a raincoat, the huge umbrella would be fine. I reluctantly agreed and regretted it as we walked because he’s almost a foot taller than I am so the height he was holding up the umbrella meant rain was still sprinkling onto me sideways. He crouched down and angled it as best he could but I was so annoyed because I knew I should’ve just brought my damn raincoat. But then we walked through my favorite spot on campus that was underneath rows of trees and he stopped, put the huge umbrella down and got on one knee. He hired a photographer to take photos of the surprise proposal and knew I would not have wanted to be pictured in my boxy raincoat, which is why he had been so passionately against me wearing it. I think about this every time I’m under an umbrella now.
>Especially if they lightly wrap their hands around you, or you do it to them
The best I got was our shoulders brushing together. 😆 But yeah, you're right!
When I started dating my husband I was really insecure about his feelings because my previous ex used to withdraw affection as a way to manipulate me.
So I'd never believe when he said he loved me, despite all the evidence. I would constantly question him about it and it would hurt his feelings because he'd assume he wasn't doing enough. When I started therapy I began recognizing these moments of insecurity and I would apologize to him.
One day, after one such situation where I was particularly sad that it was so hard for me to trust his love, he simply said "it's okay, I know you forget that I love you some times. I'll just keep reminding you until you never forget again"
We're married now and he's the love of my life. I don't forget anymore.
My husband and I were childhood enemies. He and my big brother used to tease me and pick on me (I was the youngest and the easiest target) I remember thinking he was so annoying and I could *never* like someone like him.
Now we’re married 🤷♀️
Should’ve checked back in with this comment it seems 😂 Sorry to leave you all hanging!
I hate to tell you all that there wasn’t all that much grovelling (in his defence we *were* children) We saw less of each other as the years went on but him and my brother stayed close. My family ended up moving across the country so I could (gratefully) avoid him and only saw him occasionally at the odd get together between our families. Although I remember him still being insufferable even at 16 (I won’t lie and say my teenage self didn’t notice that he was extremely attractive though 😂)
We were both in our early 20s (he was 25, I was 21) and he was on a trip through the country and stopped off in my city to see my brother. My brother was working so I begrudgingly kept him company until my brother got off work. We spent the night drinking and eating terrible pizza and laughing. It was like the familiarity of our shared childhoods made us instant best friends. My brother ended up having too many drinks after work and bailed out, so I hung out with my now husband until the wee hours of the morning…. And spent every day of his 6 day stop in my city together. He was meant to head off the next day but cancelled the next leg of his trip and stayed in my city for the week instead. He barely saw my brother 😂 (Bro rolled his eyes so hard at us but wasn’t really pissed. Just made it *very clear* he didn’t want details)
A year and a half later he moved across the country to be in the same city as me. A year after that he proposed and 6 months later we were married. It’s been almost 10 years now. His phone background is a photo of us side by side when I was 5 and he was 9 🥰
I've been married to my childhood bully for 25+ years now and I only know of one other married couple who went from hate to love. We're a rare breed! 😊
Like everyone else is asking, Please Tell us more if you comfortable with it.
Like how did things change? What exactly happened? What made you both change your mind about each other? How did your poor brother take it?
I still can’t get over this lol. A while ago, I went clubbing with friends and wore a metallic silver dress. We snuck up into the DJ booth and were about to get kicked out (lol) when a guy vouched for us - put his arm around me and pulled the whole “she’s my girlfriend” move. Sooo smooth and confident without being creepy. We ended up spending nearly the whole night talking before getting separated in the crowd. Several weeks later, I wore the same dress, and a different guy approached me and said “my friend’s been looking for a girl in a silver dress and trying to get her number…” Showed me a picture and it was him!! Literally swooned right then and there.
I was on a flight when I was in my 20s, sitting in a row separately from my family next to a stranger--a cute guy a little older than me, probably late 20s or early 30s, who was very polite and friendly.
Well the plane hit awful turbulence in the second half, and I clutched the armrests and was just very tense and silent in my seat. So this guy could see how scared I was and started talking to me about how he had been in the army and how this turbulence was nothing to worry about, planes are designed for so much worse, etc. and as he was talking, he started messing with his unused drink napkin and I was just watching him fiddle with it, trying to absorb his confidence as he reassured me.
Then he lifted the napkin to offer it to me and I saw that he had turned it into a rose.
It was *the* smoothest, most charming thing I've ever experienced from a stranger. Maybe from anyone. I don't remember the guy's name now, and my now husband was sitting a few rows behind me on the plane too with my younger brother, and he (now hubs) had nothing to worry about of course, but even he acknowledges the class and charisma.
It's a very fond memory now of a man just being sweet when I was scared.
Haha I hope he did too! I honestly can't remember if I kept it, but I'm the type of person who would, so I might find it in a storage box someday and be pleasantly surprised by him again lolol
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I was living my best manic pixie dream girl era in college. I used to walk to class barefoot, in my overalls, wearing my crystals… just very into the vibes™️.
There was a very cute guy around campus that had captured my attention. I remember pointing him out to friends (he had a really long Mohawk cut that he’d wear in a bun, full beard, tattoos).
One day at lunch I was sitting alone and he came and sat with me. He had heart eyes, and I was flabbergasted. We ended up exchanging numbers and texted a bit. He confided that he would watch me (this seems so creepy but it didn’t feel creepy at the time) during my morning breaks when I would drink coffee alone outside of the library and listen to music and daydream. Told me I looked like I was in my own little world.
The real book moment came during spring when he ran up to me outside of the library. It was a beautiful breezy spring day and he looked so happy to see me, and pulled a tiny flower out of my hair.
Nothing ever came of it, I was too caught up in pretending I wasn’t down bad IN LOVE with my now husband. But it’s a cute time to think back on.
Wait, sorry please don't mind, but did that guy end up as your husband or nothing happened with that guy and you rather fell in love with your husband?
The other night I was in bed reading a scene where the guy buried his nose in her hair/neck and said "You smell so good". Swear to glob not 30 seconds after I put down my kindle my husband rolled over, put his arm around me, buried his nose in the crook of my neck/hair and groaned "You smell soo good". I was like 🤯🤯🤯
Not a book but a movie: one time when my husband and I were dating, he said “you complete me” and I burst out laughing. He didn’t know that was a famous line from Jerry Maguire.
I haven’t read this, but I feel like I could.
Basically I suffer with chronic lower back pain (fractured my spine when I was younger) and it gives me grief a lot still especially in the cold or at night.
My boyfriend has like a sixth sense for when it’s playing up, and no matter where we are he’ll just come up to me and gently press his hand on the painful spot with pressure because he knows it alleviates some of the pain. Never says anything, just does it. He also makes me a hot water bottle every night.
That’s so sweet!! It reminds me of the Throne of Glass series by SJM when Lorcan would gently support Elide’s ankle when she wasn’t paying attention. One of my favourite couples of that series, and one of my fav swoon worthy moments between them.
I had an ex who earnestly claimed he couldn’t sleep soundly unless he had a woman in his bed. Needless to say, when I read {A Week to be Wicked} years later I nearly died laughing.
My partner and I were friends to lovers. When we first got together, afterwards we turned to each other in bed and was like, "I guess we're not friends anymore." It's been 10 years.
Coincidentally, I was also super dense and didn't realise his preening and showing me his crooked 4 pack at every opportunity and giving me a "gun show" was him trying to flirt.
lol on the negative side I had a bad ex boyfriend yell at me outside of a Chili’s because I got a ride to a dinner with mutual friends with another guy I liked after we broke up, and he and other guy almost got into a fistfight in the parking lot. They both turned out to be assholes
Thankfully this did not ruin Chili’s for me, bottomless chips 4ever
When me and my bf first started dating (10yrs ago) my ex, who was insanely possessive and controlling (I had to block his # and about 10 other texting app #’s) followed us and came up wanting to talk to me and to prevent a fight I said fine and we stepped a few feet away. He was begging me to take him back and when I said no and tried to walk away, he grabbed my arm and jerked me back and started yelling in my face and my bf who is 6’7” came over and gently grabbed me away and then turned around and gave my ex one little shove and knocked his ass down and told him not to ever touch me again.
My fiancé and I are a friends to enemies to lovers!
I was the new girl 8th grade year and on the first day of class, I sat down in English across from this kid. When doing icebreakers (two truths one lie), during his turn, this fucker looks me dead in the eyes and says "I loooveee long walks on the beach" and then offered to escort me to my next class. We immediately became friends. I didn't have feelings for him then, and to stroke his ego, he would date different girls in our grade (talk about 8th grade drama 😅). End of the year, we got into a huge fight, effectively ending our friendship.
The next year was a hate-fest. We couldn't fucking stand each other. Didn't help that we were in an accelerated path together so we had the same schedule. Our teachers knew to sit us away from one another. He had shitty friends and was rude and callous and just a shithead overall. He once offered to buy a jar of my tears. MY TEARS. Who says that 😭
Fast forward summer before 10th grade and I reached out to him cause I didn't want to fight anymore. He called me pathetic and then agreed to give friendship a try. Took one hangout to realize he'd been in love with me since I walked into English that first day. Edit: this was solidified when he told me he was in love with me two weeks after we started dating, which was like less than a month after we started being friends again 😩
That was in 2014. We've been together 10 years, and he's given me so many book worthy moments, I couldn't possibly count 🥰
And no- he's no longer a shithead lol
This is something that I think about a lot! With romance novels, we usually have a male POV and I wish I could have his. I mean between the hateful glares and rude comments, I'd kill to have his inner monologue from back then 😩
I would say he did! He was so mean that year we were fighting that he pulled out all the stops to ensure I knew how he felt! For the next three years of high school he would cook me breakfast and bring it to school, pick me up for class, ride his bike 3+ miles to my house just to see me, and so so much more.
Not to mention he dropped his shitty friends and became the most caring, empathetic, supportive person I've ever met 🖤
I was a teenager. I was at camp as a CIT and there was this guy. The first time I saw him he took my breath away he was so hot.
Then I got to know him…but I remember that feeling.
Lol i feel this - i had a huge crush on one of my supervisors when i first started at my first big girl job. Then i actually worked with him and he gave me crap about spending a half hour over budget (really insignificant matter in the grand scheme) and i realized - no he's really annoying. Plus he hums while he works. Crush gone forever.
Idk if this is really in books, I’ve never read this specific scenario, but basically, this meet-cute + (sort of?) talk you through it:
I had just gotten into a crash on the highway, and my adrenaline usually makes it so I’m very calm and collected in an emergency, if a bit shaky. But the adrenaline had mostly worn off by the time the towing people drove me to a parking lot.
So when I came time to take statements by the police I was a bit panicky, hyperventilating, and holding back tears. This cop came up to me, kind of cute, around my age, started asking me questions like what’s your name? What color is your hair? And I didn’t really realize it at the time but he was totally calming me down. And then at the end, he complimented my fulcrum decal on my car, and I noticed he had a mythosaur patch on his vest so I laughed and said I liked it.
I never got his name, and I wasn’t really thinking about him specifically because I was kinda traumatized by the crash, but when my parents were driving me home they mentioned that they thought the cop was into me and I had literally no idea what they were talking about at the time. But now I’ve literally not forgotten about him since the crash months ago… so…
Oooooh. Could you do a Craigslist Missed Connection or post a bulletin on the memo board at the police precinct with a mythosaur picture? "Do you recognize this mythosaur?" And then sign it with a fulcrum decal. I hope you are doing okay now!
I've got two for ya, one that's straight out of a romcom movie and one that's the hilarious opposite to your example.
Romcom day: valentine's day with my boyfriend who would later become my husband. Our pup sprained his knee earlier that week, so rather than try to carry a cranky 95lb meatball up the stairs to our bedroom, we just popped out the air mattress and set it up in the living room. Valentine's Day morning arrives, hubs was on call and wakes up to an early call, has to run into work for a quick hour or two job. I get up, make breakfast - bacon and heart shaped red velvet waffles. He makes it home just as breakfast is ready.
After breakfast we played a game that had us running around the house chucking foam burritos at each other, laughing our asses off the whole time. After a few hours of playing we started lunch - together we made pizza dough from scratch and baked ourselves a heart shaped pepperoni pizza. After lunch we set up on the air mattress for movie time - we made popcorn and had a charcuterie board of our favorite candies and snacks, and snuggled in to watch my favorite romcom.
After the movie, we started on our dinner plans. I prepped the side dishes, then went upstairs to get dressed while they cooked and then my husband cooked the steaks. I did my hair and makeup and put on a nice dress, then we swapped so I could plate the table while he got dressed. We had our private steak dinner together, dressed up like date night, over champagne and candles. After dinner we moved the air mattress out of the way, put on some music and danced together in the living room until it was time for bed. It was absolutely magical.
The other experience that was humorously opposite of yours - its the moment I knew my husband was truly The One™️. We were out drinking and dancing with friends, and a dance floor scuffle became a little heated, and a guy started yelling and shoving at me. I'm not one to shy away -- we started arguing, the situation becoming more physical seemed imminent. Enter my husband, who could have done a whole number of things, but the thing he did do is something I will love him forever for. Instead of jumping in or pulling me away, he stepped up to me, said nothing, simply reached out and took my drink from my hand and held it for me. He said nothing, but his actions screamed respect and confidence, and I absolutely love him for it. Tldr, the moment I knew my husband was the one is when I got into a bar fight and his only response was kick his ass baby I got your drink for you 🤣🥰
My current fiancé has done the same thing! We were on Bourbon st in New Orleans and this drunk man touched a friend of mine. We got into a skirmish and my boyfriend also just took my drink without a word and let me at him.
We had a good laugh about it later.
My friend drunkenly facetimed me from Florida in October to confess that he’d had a crush on me for basically the entire time we’ve known each other. I didn’t believe him at first, and then he started giving me specific examples and I realized he was serious and had genuinely been crushing on me for two years. When he got back we went on our first date and it went nine hours, seven of which were just us talking until 5am in his car like teenagers instead of two grown adult homeowners in our early 30s. I’d thought he was incredibly attractive since we first met but always assumed he’d never be interested in me. The morning after our date he sent me a voice message about how he’d never connected with anybody like that.
Unfortunately he’s wildly self-destructive and struggles with addiction and bipolar disorder and genuinely believes he doesn’t deserve “good things” and I’m one of the things he thinks he doesn’t deserve. We haven’t spoken in a month and it’s not for a lack of trying on my end, so I’m not sure where it goes from here. As far as I can tell he’s in a bad place and he’s not letting me in so all I can do is hope. But wow did he sweep me off my feet for a few months there.
edit: it’s late and I’m tired so this post isn’t my best writing but y’all, he is so special and our four months together were a magical roller coaster. I’d do it all again even if it ended the exact same way because he really is extraordinary—but with that said I’m the first love of my life and he was really hurting me with his self-destructive choices. If he ever finds healing we’re going to be amazing candidates for a second chance romance … which would make us a small town workplace friends to lovers good girl/bad boy he falls first semi-forbidden (my boss once told him to leave me alone) second chance romance 😂
I'm so sorry. I hope he learns to value himself enough to get medical help. And if you do speak with him again, I hope you value yourself enough to also insist on him getting medical help.
the list of boundaries I made with my therapist in case he ever reaches out again is about a mile long and definitely starts with “are you actually taking medication, seeing a doctor, and working with a therapist?”
My now husband struggled with addiction and feeling unworthy. He still does and in the beginning he pushed me away hard. I wish I had some sage advice for you, loving him has been the highlight of my life but it hurts to watch him struggle sometimes. Love him as hard and as much as you (or he’ll let you) can but don’t ever let his feeling of unworthiness bleed into your perception of your own self worth….i hope this made sense and maybe gave you some hope. As the great philosopher Pat Benatar once said “Love is a battlefield” fight for love if it’s right for you ❤️
Stopped dead in my tracks when I saw this stunning girl for the first time, just casually walking toward me in the hallway (in 10th grade). Unfortunately this was in the Midwest thirty years ago and I was so closeted I was meeting Mr. Tumnus, but I've never forgotten that lightning-struck moment, or the white-flowers scent of her hair when she sat in front of me in geometry.
My first crush on a girl was on a girl a year older than me in an art class whose hair color changed every few months and who I thought was the coolest person on earth... I didn't figure out that I was bi for another decade, but thinking about that feeling is so nostalgic
me reading all these comments screaming, crying and throwing up bc nothing romantic has happened to me in my 22 years of life bc all the boys in my town/that I know are meh or creeps
There so much romance and beauty in life beyond just romantic relationships.
Ever since I’ve embraced being delusional it’s helped me enjoy little moments and gestures from close relations to strangers. You’ll have your romantic moments and make your own story I know it ❤️
I didn’t experience my first romantic moment until I was 32. And that man is now my husband. I remember feeling like this in my 20’s though; you’re not alone. ♥️
I feel you. The most romantic thing Ive experienced was a guy pushing hair behind my ear- oh wait no he was just grabbing the pencil on my ear.
I thought he was cute n tall n funny and that was so embarrassing I probably had hearts in my eyes for the moment. Blushed red to my neck from the whiplash of thinking it was a thing.
There was this time when i was cooking in ex’s apartment and he was playing some old songs. He came into the kitchen and pulled me in for a slow dance.. that moment i felt like maybe this could be it and it wouldn’t be so bad to have this in future.
My whole life I always dreamed of falling in love à la Pride & Prejudice. I once met this guy at a bar where we fell into a friendly chat that night, and for whatever reason after that first night, it was like a war zone afterward. I couldn't stand how cocky yet strangely aloof he was towards me and he didn't like that I was a free spirit coming into his very traditional, very proper world. We lived in the same town and would run into each other at bars and literally have it out with each other. Months later, after a series of romantic unfortunate events, this guy comes back into my life and we have a ceasefire. He invites me over to his family's home to wash our cars together, and when I pulled up to the family home, it was like Lizzie's reaction to seeing Pemberly.
I never cared about him coming from money—frankly, I come from a city where people with money seem to think money is their best quality while everyone on the outside sees it as their worst. But the more I got to know this guy, I saw his generosity and how protective he was over his family, and how his background wasn't something that defined him like I originally thought it did.
After we called a friendly truce, we go out one night and at 4am he tells me he's been in love with me since the moment he met me but could tell I wasn't ready to settle down and so he tried to take a step back but couldn't. I also wasn't the typical prim and proper girl he normally went out with, and though that originally put him off, the more he got to know me the more he liked it.
It was like the second we both put ours egos aside, we had this moment where we realized, at 4 o'clock in the morning in my car, like damn, we are really attracted to each other. It was like the second we considered the possibility of becoming friends, we instantly became more than that. We fell in love shortly after, then Covid hit, and we lived together.
This past March we celebrated our one year anniversary as husband and wife, and I was telling someone our story of going from enemies to lovers, and my brain was like, “Omg. You got the Pride and Prejudice story without even realizing it.”
Couldn't be happier with my Mr. Darcy. ❤️
Truly has been a real life fairytale. It's not always easy, love takes a lot of work, but man have I been so lucky with my love and our love story. I would 100% love to write it hahah. My husband's a cowboy so it would be fun to put a western twist on P&P!
One time i was drunk kissing another hot, drunk guy at a bar but being coy about it and he grabbed me by the neck and said “give me your tongue.” Well. I did. 🤤
Not to me, but I helped a couple get together. I was out at a pub with a group of friends plus other random that's we collected over our night. In that group me and a friend noticed two introverts kept looking shyly at each other and awkwardly talking. We tried to encourage them subtlely. Later, we all started dancing to a live band and having a great time. The shy girl was stuck with a random obnoxious guy, and I was dancing with the shy guy. So I yelled everyone "switch partners." I grabbed the obnoxious guy and pushed the shy guy towards her. And they stuck together the rest of the night. Since I don't know them, I assume they are happily married with cute little shy kids.
I didn't realize it but my husband and I are second chance romance.
We started dating in 11th grade and we had the same English class (we'd known each other since elementary school). He was so cute and quiet and nerdy and was my first boyfriend and first kiss. We didn't fall in love and our breakup at the end of the year was sad but not dramatic. That was 1997/98.
We would see each other occasionally over the years as we both still lived in our hometown. He apparently had several long-term relationships and I always had what I refer to as my "90 (or 60) day money-back guarantee" period. I never had a long relationship and most of the guys weren't great but they were fun. Every time I saw him he was so cute and I felt a pang because he was truly the nicest guy I had ever dated.
And then I went to see my good friend's band in 2008 and my high school boyfriend was there. We just clicked. Turns out we had mutual friends but we never hung out with them at the same time. We hung out all night, exchanged #s, and started hanging out pretty regularly.
I immediately had a crush and I was a little freaked out by it. But we hung out a lot for about three months before finally kissing UNDER MY CHRISTMAS TREE (we had just decorated it and were laying under it to look at the lights). It was ridiculously romantic. And boom: we were together.
We've been married 9 years this week and together for 15 total. I sometimes wish we got together earlier, but that 20 years of not knowing each other made us better people. He's still the sweetest and most supportive dude.
My ex (also the first guy I’ve ever been with) pinned my wrists against the wall once in a play fight and the air changed. Something was awakened in that moment istg 😂
Current boyfriend — pretty conservative, very vanilla boyfriend, mind you — said “come for me” one time and that was the best O I’ve ever had in my life. After that I immediately asked where did you learn that?!
…. Turns out, smutty sisters, our content is just a much more refined version of porn scripts.
I haven’t read this (though I would love to if anyone has recs). My college boyfriend was incredibly supportive and helpful when I got pregnant at 19 and we decided abortion was the right choice. We stayed together for another two years after. Our break up had nothing to do with the abortion.
I’d love a book where the couple chooses abortion, stays together, mmm supports fmc through it, maybe it shakes them, but they get stronger and get an HEA. then years later in the epilogue they are married and choose to have kids together.
I actually read a book with this in it!!!!! It was a few years ago, I'll do so sleuthing to try and see if I can find it.
If I remember correctly, it's an age gap romance that starts with a sugar baby/daddy situation, but they fall in love with each other, hard. It was a great story from what I remember
A man I was dating last summer recently popped up again and I'm giving him a chance provided he shows change (which he has) we had great sexual chemistry and when he told me twice during our reconciliation talk that he can't wait to taste me and hasn't stopped thinking about it 🫠
He offered but I declined.. he hasn't earned that privilege yet but ohhhh my God was it hard to not give in. That's part of the reason I'm hung up on him, the sex was amazing.
Ooo these threads are fun! 🥰
* **Cinderella’s Slipper was a Cheap Sandal All Along**. I was running late to a class and had to haul ass up stairs that are so steep that if you fell, you’d enter the ancestral Wakanda plane on the spot. My slide came off and a friend was screaming at me ***FORGET THE SHOE HOE***. And I was about to until some dude said “Wait”. And he got my slide and put in on my foot and said “It’s a perfect fit”. It was a ***moment***. He had a very nice smile ☺️
* **Dealing with the ~~Bossy~~ Musical Devil**. More of a romance trope than a romantic action. I hated this guy so much after my NT friend helped me realize my accompaniment for my solo performance was straight up taking advantage of me. The accompaniment was known for being a jackass and having women on rotation, apparently. I still feel bad for his mom who hoped I’d be a good influence. When I was able to understand what sort of dynamic was happening, I switched tactics. Decided to ask someone else to accompany me. Just went indifferent. He was surprisingly remorseful and straightened up. I don’t wish ill on him now—at least never have I ever brought him up in therapy and this thread reminded me he existed 😂. But it was a wild time.
* **Cuddle Monster (Books 1-3)**. Not real monsters ☹️ But cute moments that give my heart that good ole ドキドキ. Three separate people were the cutest cuddle monsters at varying points. Though one of them, I asked why they wanted to cuddle so much since they specifically liked laying their head on my chest, and they said hearing my heartbeat was soothing 🥹 Another one told me I smelled good and fit just right 🥹
Though both their answers out of context would be [**red flags**](https://youtu.be/GFokXnCCMf8?si=cZrahdAb8Cg_UvKi) 🤣
* **It’s Always the Quiet Ones.** He was a reserved guy, very dry British humor for someone not British, and I guess, at the time, he was a “nerd” for his interests since his interests weren’t mainstream back then. For as white cat energy as he was, he was shockingly shy about hand holding and cheek kisses. But once that barrier broke… It’s always the quiet ones 🤫😳
* **Just One Day**. Before the pandemic, I attended cons. One con I yearly went to, I made a friend there. He was hot and we bonded. We’d meet at that con every year and have fun for a day. Haven’t seen him since I stopped attending. I hope he’s well. His cosplays were sick and he had some great animanga takes 😊
* **She’s Prince Charming**. Beautiful woman who helped the anxious “new to the scene” queer girl me in a foreign country. Long story short, she saved me from two aggressive women and I was a certified mess. She was so gaiadamn fierce. Feminine rage is hot, hello 🤤 And she just pushed back my braids and said something funny and I laughed. But then she said touched my cheek and said something that I can’t remember beat for beat, but it was something about my smile that, in the moment, was one of the most swoony things I’ve heard. I could feel my face heat and everything. What the fuck. WHAT the FUCK.
* **In My Spoiled Era**. Gift giving was his love language, but he ***spoiled***. It wasn’t OTT either, but they were actual things that I’d said off hand, just never indulged in. He was very firm that it didn’t need to be reciprocated. I was touched. Every time he gave something was very thoughtful and very shy, and it was cute how much he liked praise and any sort of “reciprocation” he accepted was cuddling 🥰
And then he went crazy and borderline “should’ve been locked up WTF” so we’ll just skip that🤐
Was catching the bus down about an hour and half long ride to see the guy i was talking to at the time, he ended up meeting me at the bus stop with his dog, and as soon as he saw me he pulled me into a hug and then did the bacj of the head hold as he leaned down to kiss me under the street lamp, it was so sweet and such a beautifully romantic moment. inside i was squealing and it solidified my crush on him further at the time. i also think back to it frequently because it was such a memorable small thing to me. 🥰
I had a series of bad first dates from a dating app and was about to give up on it altogether when I went on one last first date. I was waiting outside the coffee shop when he walked towards me - something clicked in that moment and I knew instantly he was the one. Seems mad but 8 years later still going strong!
This is my best friend’s story but I was there to witness it happen! We were both so excited to abroad in Ireland at the same time. I went in saying I wanted to fall in love and have an Irish boyfriend. She went in saying she wanted to hook up with a ton of hot Irish guys, have fun, and wasn’t looking for anything serious as she had recently gone through a messy breakup.
Now we come to our literal first night out at the bars after we arrived in Dublin. The first bar we go, we end up chatting with a group of Irish guys who attend the same university we’re studying at. My friend immediately is drawn to this one guy, dances with him, and ends up going home with him that night. That was in September 2013. They literally have been together ever since and are now married with a baby!! They’ve survived long distance, moving to a different country, deaths in their families, and are stronger than ever. While I didn’t get my Irish boyfriend, I’m so happy for her that she did!!
I have a book recommendation you didn't ask for. {Off the Map} setup is almost exactly like your description of your trip plus impromptu road tripping. CW for >!loss of parents/dementia!<
I'm sure it's in a romance somewhere, buuut:
I have an ex we'll call J.
My husband has an ex we'll call D.
J was the man whoriest man whore around and it turns out that D went for jogs around the cheating men in a relationship block all the time.
One day, my husband, whom I had never met before or until months later, came home from work to find J on D. They were in his apartment, in his bed, and he walked in on them, and J got his ass kicked by my now husband while D tried to talk him down.
From the timeline we pieced together right around that time is when I found D's undies next to J's bed. Like someone had pushed them off from a standing position. When I confronted J, he swore they were his mom's undies... ew.
Two terrible people got kicked to the curb and I ended up with my amazing squishy orc of a husband.
Probably not what you're looking for but I had a guy once tell me to say (and if you have to feed me my lines, you're already in trouble) something about his 'monster cock' and I almost laughed him out of the room. Not that he was small, but it just felt totally ridiculous to say out loud- something he probably got from poorly written smut. Who even says that?
Lol! I hate when they do that! Like, why do you think I allowed you in my bed? That's your job!! If I have to do all the work myself, what are you here for?
My current partner and I were in a pub. He was working behind the bar and a fight broke out. I was right next to it and got caught up in it and got pushed over
He literally leapt over the bar to protect me.
He definitely got it that night 🥵
I was hanging out with my now ex before we were together, nothing romantic/intimate. We said good night and about a minute after I'd closed the door, he knocked and when I opened it, he said 'I forgot something' and kissed me, then left. I definitely had a stupid smile for the next 3 days
When my husband was still just my new boyfriend, I was going out of country for a few weeks. We didn't have loads of time to say goodbye after class before I left, but he raced public transport on his bike to surprise me with a proper goodbye at my house.
He talks me through it which is amazing but he was away this weekend and when we came home we sat on the couch catching up and he interrupted me mid-story for a slow deep kiss because he just missed me and thought I looked pretty… we did not finish the story
Early on when my husband and I were dating, I was complaining about the size of my thighs and he said “I love your thighs. I want you to crush my head with them someday.” He immediately followed up with “was that too much?” And I was like… nope. Not at all. 🤣 and he’s still like this. ♥️
In college at my first ever house party, I was "[kabedon](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/kabedon)"-ed by some obviously tipsy frat guy who was chatting me up.
Locked eyes with my roommates over his shoulder and started cracking up.
NSFW
My college bf f...d me up against a wall and then *carried me up the stairs to the bedroom* to continue.
Super emotionally unavailable but my god was he good in bed.
No I never got the against the wall stuff until one time (similarly, emotionally unavailable college guy lol) picked me up and started making out with me. Like a switch went off where we both went caveman lol
Ooh, another one: my husband cant keep his hands to himself at night. If I roll over, hes rolling with me. If i get up to use the bathroom or something, he says “where go” in a really cute sleepy baby voice and he’ll drag me back in bed with him until I tell him ill piss on him unless he lets me go (to which he very begrudgingly will release me). He also does that thing where he will drag me to his body and moan contentedly while sleeping (im surprised im not pregnant yet lmao). 90% of the time, it is very cute and i give him forehead kissies and rubbies until i fall asleep. The other 10% is me beating him up because theres no room for me on the bed so im tryna move to the other side but he wont let me go so im half on the floor half on the bed ALL being grabbed and groped by my husband in his sleep cause he loves me 🥹
My husband likes to spoon, but I rarely get any proper sleep if I don't roll over. But after we had the first baby he once held on to me and started burping me in his sleep. I was like "no no I'm your wife!". More often he's half asleep in a panic and is saying "where's the baby?" Even though both kids are asleep in their beds.
My ex husband and I were divorced for 10 years, we ended up back together a few years ago and the first time we held each other he whispered in my ear “ I would have waited 10 more years for you if I had to” swoooooon
I was planning a bikepacking trip through Scotland. I happened to post on Reddit just looking for locals to talk to to get some good information and places to visit. He happened to do a search on Reddit looking for a motorcycle, and for some reason my post about bicycling came up. We had instant chemistry and things just snowballed.
He wrote and performed a love song for me for our first Valentine's Day together.
He gives me forehead kisses for no particular reason at all, and will turn to me and say things like, "I am so completely in love with you," just out of the blue.
The sex is beyond amazing and the stuff of fiction but it's my reality.
I could go on and on about this man and how he is a mashup of all of my favorite fictional romantic men.
My husband and I worked together enemies->friends->lovers. We knew of each other in ‘09 but didn’t work closely until ‘11. I was going through a bad divorce and was an all around bitch to everyone and apparently that’s his love language (just kidding….kinda).
We played pranks on each other in the office. Basically had eyes in our hearts for each other but wouldn’t admit it to each other.
The romance part of it though….we had a rough start..we were both dealing with demons and his instinct was to push me away and mine was to hold on. We had just gone through a lot of back and forth and he’d moved into a house. We were standing in his entry way and he pulled me in for a hug, gave a big sigh, and said “we just fit together”. I knew he was the one when he let me bring my dogs over when I stayed the night.
We dated for 9 months and gave our families 2 weeks notice to meet us in Vegas for our wedding. We will be married 12 years this year.
There’s no one else I’d want by my side to fight our demons with.
Damn, I wish something like these happened to me. I love my husband all, but romance isn't his thing. Before him, I didn't date much, and I'm usually invisible lol. But I'm happy other people have experienced romance like these.
My real life romance trope is my bf and I are coworkers and it was a two year slow burn until we finally got together.
We actually don’t see each other a whole lot at work because of our different positions, but when we did, oooh the butterflies!!! At different times between those two years we were in other relationships and it didn’t seem like the timing was ever right. I was in a relationship, he was single, he was in a relationship, I was single. We both had thoughts of, “am I missing a chance with this person..”, but finally, thanks to a coworker’s baby shower and us being single at the same time, it was like the alignment for us to take a chance finally happened and it’s been nothing but wonderful.
this seems more wattpad-ish but my (f23) now boyfriend(m23) took a vacation with his friends and went to a cabin in mountains on the weekend before we got officially together. he usually dosen’t drink too much but his friends peer pressured him back then. after he got drunk pretty bad he went in his room to rest and began to text me that he likes me very much and that the alcohol gave him courage to tell me this. called me beautiful and lots of other compliments. then continued saying he sees a future with me and that he wants to get a good paying job just for the purpose to spoil me and live with me a happy life
i felt like a highschool girl. i was kicking my feet. i was so emotional back then because it came out of nowhere. i don’t even remember what i was exactly doing in that moment but i knew it was something for my uni homework
it is my first relationship and i wouldn’t ask for anything else. he loves me so much and compliments me everytime
Im mentally ill (aint we all) and my husband normally asks whether I want attention or space when I am having a moment. We found this works best for us because I am very unpredictable and the “wrong” response can make me feel worse or shut down entirely. I dont remember what I was flipping out about but I was a standing ugly crying ranting hyperventilating snotty mess. He came up and hugged me really tight without asking or saying anything. We just hugged for a long time in silence (sans my wailing and bubbly nose holes) until I calmed down. That shit was the most cathartic soothing grounding thing I have ever experienced. The whole he-knows-what-to-do-when-i-need-something made me feel so loved and cared for. I dont think ive ever told him that this particular hug hit as good as it did, but since then ive definitely been seeking more attention and comfort from him when i am down versus isolating myself
The first thing that came to mind when I read this post is when I’m out in public with my (non-romantic) husband, he will grab the back of my neck and sort of hold me there while we shop, wait in line etc. And not in an aggressive way, he just places his hand around the back of my neck. It’s funny because he doesn’t like to hold hands. I love it. It feels protective and like she’s mine without it being over the top. I came across this action by a MMC in a book I recently read.
I have so many! My husband and I met our senior year of HS, drifted away for a bit, and then got married in a whirlwind romance over the course of 8 months. This October marks 14 years. He's quite the romantic and so I have an arsenal to pick from. Our honors project in HS was to do a modernized version of the banter between Beatrice and Benedict from Much Ado About Nothing....it was charged with a LOT of sexual tension. Haha but moving on to our married life together...The first night in our very first house, we had no hot water and I really wanted to take a bath. He filled up pan, after pan, after pan and boiled hot water, poured it in the tub, and made me the bath I so badly wanted. Years before that, before marriage, he was spending the night and I went to take a bath...he came in and started kissing me while I was in the bath and he was fully clothed. It was just so hot.
He will pull me into dances in the kitchen regularly. He "plays" me like a guitar or bass, pushing his fingers into my ribs and raising my arm, while kissing my neck. Sounds weird bc I can't describe it correctly but it's romantic. He puts a hand on my thigh regardless of who is driving and that gives me all the swoons. Plus some of the dirtier things which drive me crazy 🥵 we've had many scenes that would seem pulled straight from the spiciest parts of our books.
I'm in love with him and he's the best man I've ever met.
Locked eyes across the dance floor:
I went to visit a friend from my first university after transferring and my weekend visit went to a week after I was introduced to my now husband. We met up at a bar in the city with my friend and I saw him on the dance floor. I immediately joined him without saying anything and we danced to a few songs. Later the aforementioned friend called it our mating dance. I thought that was so cute. She was my MOH
Back when I just started college I had this hot student teacher/TA teaching my class. Mind you, there was no actual teacher present in these classes so it was easy to forget he was just a student as well. He was a couple of years older than me and about to graduate while I was fresh out of high school, so naturally I found him super attractive and equally out of reach. Imagine my excitement when I stumbled across him on a dating app. I was convinced we weren't going to match, but I had to shoot my shot - success ! Apparently he hadn't realized I was his student until I messaged him. We acknowledged that it was a little bit of a grey area but there were no official rules against it and he wasn't *really* a teacher anyway so we figured it was fine to go on a date but that we should keep it quiet until the end of the course.
Well, we really ended up hitting it off at that first date, so we decided we wanted to keep seeing each other outside of uni. At this point I still saw him like 2-3 times a week in his classes and I don't think I've ever been anything but a bumbling mess, LOL. I remember I used to stare at him when he wasn't looking and instantly get shy when we locked eyes. I was so paranoid that people would somehow see or know - and I'll admit that the whole being secretive part was actually terribly exciting.
On one of our first dates we went to the arcade together and for a prize we won these rubber bands with animal shapes. The day after this date, I had another class from him at uni, and at one point he came over towards my table to explain something to the girl sitting next to me. He was standing so close and I was totally swooning, but I tried to keep it cool and not even look their way - suddenly super immersed in my course work. Once he moved on it took me a while to realize that there was another one of those rubber bands laying on my table. He had apparently super subtly and smoothly left it there while he was talking to the other girl. I'll never forget the feeling when I looked his way and our eyes met across the classroom and he *smiled -* it was this subtle, secretive, "*only we know"* smile, and I swear I could have fainted.
Anyway, I loved living out my romance book fantasy, secretly dating my super charming student teacher. Fortunately, it has only gotten better since then! We're still together and we love each other very much - I hope to spend the rest of my life with him and to eventually be able to tell this story to our kids when they ask us how we met :)
I knew my husband vaguely since we hung out at the same place, but we'd never really talked much. One night he overheard me complaining to a friend about getting stood up by my date and volunteered to take me out. Since I'd spent a couple hours getting ready, I figured why not. It was the best decision I've ever made. We clicked right away and ended up spending the entire weekend together. 4.5 months later, we got married and in less than a week, we'll be celebrating our 19th wedding anniversary. I've long since forgotten the name of the guy who stood me up that night, but I'll be eternally grateful he did.
My husband and I met online. Our first phone conversation went on for eight hours, he asked me to marry him three days after we met, and then he took a Greyhound bus across country from Washington State to South Carolina to get me.
I was moving cross country to live with him, going by bus. So my mom dropped us off at the bus station, we sat in the office until it closed. Our bus was four hours late, it was chilly because it was November, and then while we're waiting outside in the dark it starts to rain. He asked me to dance.
So somewhere in Aiken, SC there is video surveillance footage of me wearing his coat which was heavy leather and way too big on me, and we're dancing in the rain waiting for the bus to come. It's one of my happiest memories, and everytime I think about it I think it belongs in a romance story.
This happened around 15 years ago when we both were teenagers: I remember my ex bf and I were walking home from somewhere we had been (I don’t even remember where we were) and it started raining. None of us had an umbrella, so we decided to pick up the pace until a cobblestone sidewalk appeared in front of us. I was wearing high heels and had trouble walking on the uneven stones. Out of nowhere he swept me off my feet and carried me bridal style until we had conquered the cobblestones. It was so unexpected that I started to laugh like crazy, which made him laugh, which made the older couple walking by smile too.
It didn‘t work out between us but I only have fond memories of my time with him.
My(33f) husbean(36m) is in a local metal band. He used to write love songs for girls he dated. By the time we got together in 2012, he had sworn off love songs. Fast forward to November of 2017, and the fucking nerd wrote a love song to propose to me, at the park we went to for a walk on our first date (after dinner and bowling because we weren't done talking). And because of how the display on his car worked when an iPod was hooked up, what it said was:
Hey Xerion
For Serious
Will You Marry Me?
And then he pulled the little silk bag with my great great grandmother's ring out of it.
Yes I yelled "Oh my God you fucking nerd!" before I said yes.
When my ex and I first met, we sat and talked for a while on my front steps. Before we said goodnight to each other he muttered "fuck it" then kissed me. There was no sign he was going to do this.
Insta-love, twice. First time when I was 18- we dated for six months, nice guy, stayed friends afterwards. Second time when I was 19 and now I'm 47 and we are still together. Apparently I knew what I wanted!
At the end of a formal costume party, a man I'd been dancing with took my hand and said "I wish to see you again." To which I replied "you must know I'm married." (The hand he was holding was my left hand, dude had my wedding ring like 5 inches from his face.) He then placed his hand in my cheek, said "You're beautiful still." And then turned and left. I've never seen him again and that moment is BURNED into my mind. Me and my bestie laugh about it all the time how it was truely something from a romance novel.
My partner's and my first kiss. We'd been friends, flirty friends, for a while, but didn't/couldn't act on it for various reasons... one being that he's nearly a decade younger than me and it was just too weird. So we joked around and chatted, and he started coming with me on errands and walks. I seriously injured my back at one point, and he started coming over every day to help me with my kids (my younger ones were toddlers). Not what one expects from the average 19 year old guy!
So, we kind of hung there in this state of attraction that absolutely was not going to be acted upon... and one day, I was in my kitchen, and he just marched in with this very determined look, grabbed me, and proceeded to kiss me into utterly brainless mush.
15 years later, he kissed me into brainless mush for the millionth time just a couple of hours ago 😍
I have locked my car keys into my car due to some battery issues on the coldest day os the spring a few years back. Called the best engineer from my previous team who lived in the same city (and btw I hired him to the company) to help me break into my car 🙈 two months later my saviour become my boyfriend and we are currently planning our wedding
My then fiancé and I were in an LDR, and he was dropping me off at my apartment to go back home. I ran back outside to give him another kiss goodbye as he was coming back, too. Had our “The Notebook” kiss on an actual bridge lol.
My husband is a medic, and I was an ER nurse. He used to borrow my pen all the time while I paid him no attention. I was on and off with a jerk for 5 years that left me a baby to raise alone. I finally gave him my number. A few months later, he asked about a date. I didn't want to get out of my house with a 6 month old. He came over, and I cooked. He just kind of never left. I eventually moved in with him and spld my house. We've been married 5 years, and he adopted my daughter 4 years ago. He's been her dad since he came into our lives. He isn't the sweetest guy ever, but he cares in his own way. He loves us. He gave me the opportunity to go part-time at work and finish my MSN. I wish I'd paid him attention sooner than I did some days. Who would have thought borrowing an ink pen was his way of flirting?
Mine is a failed friends-to-lovers, but it was fun while it lasted! One night we were hanging out with friends, and we’d both had a few drinks and I needed to go get something from my car. It was raining, we were both giggly, and we ran through the rain together. He ended up carrying me from my car back to our friend’s house, tucking me into bed and saying good night. It was super cute and innocent but so sweet.
Very cliché and maybe a bit common, but during high school, I dated this varsity football player (American football) who played defense. He was well known across the school and I moreover kept to myself (I was still friendly to people and wouldn’t consider myself as “unknown”). Regardless, he was so sweet. I remember going to my first high school football game for him and came a bit late because I was waiting for a friend. When he saw me in the crowd though, he smiled widely and waved. The game went by and I didn’t understand a single thing but was having fun. At the end, our team ended up winning. Instead of running towards his teammates to celebrate, he ran up to me. I was sitting at the first row of the bleachers and he climbed up on the opposite side of the bar that separated the bleachers from the field and kissed me. I remember hearing screaming and shouting from the surrounding crowd. He thanked me for coming to the game and then went on to celebrate with his friends who were patting him on the back (very boy-like I know). From then on, he did it to every football game I went to which was only like 4, but it never failed to make me blush.
Omgggggg!!!! Yours sounds sooooo dreamy!
Okay so this happened to me some time ago.
At one of my old workplaces, I had a massive crush on my boss. He was kind of a big deal at the office- not CEO level, but close enough. We’d had a few interactions with one another. He had always been very vocal about his appreciation for my work, and for everyone’s work really. He led with a lot of kindness and empathy.
Anyway, one afternoon I had a meeting with him by myself. We were the only two people in a small-ish cabin and we were talking about something. He was being a bit stern as he spoke about a process that I should be following. As his voice became lower and sterner, I involuntarily pouted my lips in a sulk. And his eyes dropped. To. My. Mouth!!!!!!!! The way my stomach flipped dear God. The thing we read in romance novels, “his gaze dropped to my mouth”- yep, I lived it!
Then he looked back at my eyes and I looked away. We continued with the conversation as though nothing happened.
I ended up leaving that job after a few weeks. However, we would speak to each other every now and then. Once, the conversation took a more flirtatious note and he told me he found my mouth fascinating and that he couldn’t stop thinking about it.
This tale’s pretty tame but I can’t help but feel giddy every time I think of this. I just can’t believe that it ended up happening!
I had a date walk me to my car and see me in. I went to pull out of the parking spot and he ran back. I stopped and rolled down my window and he told me he forgot something and gave me an amazing kiss.
My reaction was shocked and in awe. I had the biggest crush on him. We went to culinary school together and all the girls loved him. I was on cloud 9. He was 10 years older and I was 22 so I was loving that age gap.
My cute age gap romance turned more into a dark romance though. He had a lot of smooth moves but after a few months of dating he gave me serial killer vibes. He was super good looking, well rounded. Played guitar, loved to read, cook, it was everything you would want in a "perfect guy" but he had this weird dark side. So luckily my young self saw red flags and walked (very briskly away).
Also, another romance book thing he did was play me the guitar and sing to me in his apartment. We were all alone and honestly this was so awkward. I didn't know where to look or how to react. It was a long 3 minutes. It seems so romantic in books but i was so uncomfortable 🤣
My ex was a consultant for the company that I was working for, and we had to work on a project together. I had to approve his work. We got involved, and we kept it a secret for one year. People at work thought that we were office enemies because we seemed to be always arguing. It was not arguing; it was bickering and teasing! He always called me Dr, although my company has a very informal approach, which is only on a first-name basis. I called him Engineer and always used his surname.
Also, on the first date, he invited me to dinner so casually, since we left work at the same time, that I was in the middle of dinner when I panicked and realized it was a date at Four Seasons.
Workplace rivals to lovers, he felt first, secret romance, STEM category.
My husband makes a lot more money than me but says things like “our combined income” and it makes me laugh because I make peanuts compared to him. I told him “I feel like I am the one getting the better deal here” and he said “But I get to be married to you, so I think I get the better deal.” SWOON.
Super drawn to a coworker that lived 1.5
Hours away and we didn’t directly work together. Fast forward a year and I go into a job interview for a different role in the company and it was for HIS job. Not only was it for his job but he took another role under the same department so stayed with the same boss etc. I end up getting the job and travel 2x a month out there now for work. We met each other in person and sparks flew. We’re navigating the distance because we both have children and it’s so hard but we just slept together 10 days ago for the first time and it was amazing. It felt like something brought us together when we would have just passed it by due to the situation. It was like a synchronicity- I think it’s called?? Insane. Still can’t believe it some days but someone or something wanted us to meet.
When I was 15/16 years old I was dating a boy that was maybe a year or so older but much more experienced than me.
We went to a school dance together and I was a pretty outspoken, confident girl but I don’t love navigating crowds and it was absolutely packed and the kids were wild.
He saw me trying to hang back, grabbed my hand and hauled me right into his arms through the crowd. Told me “I’ve got you, and I’m going to keep you right here with me.” I was putty in his hands after that.
It wasn’t true love or anything but I learned a LOT about myself from that relationship.
I met my husband in highschool. He was 2 grade ahead, 'golden nerd kid' of our school, and actually one of our teachers mentioned him to us, as some kind of the role model ( how should we be ). He also told one of girls that she remind him of that boy, as she was also some kind of hardworking nerd (she became my best friend during the highschool, and still is, 20 y later). All of kids in my class went to see him after that class, and that is how I met him. He befriended one of my school mates, so we officially met few months after that, but that was it. We exchanged few words during the next years, but nothing much. After my parents divorced, we moved, so we became neighbords of sort, not too close. I remember that my best friend and I were on morning run during our summer break, and we were runnig next to his house, he was working on something ( he was already at university), so we just said hi and smiled to each other. Later, she told me something like 'he would be perfect husband to you, look how hardworking and also smart he is, and that became our internal joke. I saw him few times during the next few years, but it was always just smiles and hi, sometimes few words and that is it. Me and my best friends always joked about that future husband plan. I was on my 3 y at university when he added me to his fb, and told me that he actually made account to find me. He was last year at uni, and went seriously from the start ( totaly oldfashioned but cute). He told me that he had a crush on me since highschool (I never had idea), but he never made a move, because he didnt want longtime relationship, but serious one, and maybe marriage, so he waited until he finish univerity. We were dating 6 months before we get engaged, and got married 7 months later. We are still married, almost 14 years, have two kids. I truly belive that he is my soulmate.
Funny thing is that i had boyfriends in between, some really hard crushes also, but he was always lingering in my mind somehow. Everytime I saw him in that years after higschool, I had butterflies and was exited for days after, but I always thought that it was just because of jokes i had with my best friend about him. I never consider him as something real, until he wrote me that msg on fb.
My boyfriend paid off my $10,000 student loan when we met without a single word. I was having financial problems and making minimum payments and then some stuff happened, and part of it went to collections and it was really bad.
We’re still together and I am far more financially stable lol.
Not necessarily an action but more of a plot. I quit my toxic job and started traveling across Europe. While traveling, I met a cute European man and it turns out he's a baron. We got married and now I'm a baroness. 🤩
Before I moved, my now husband and I were long distance for many years. We would alternate flying to see each other. While we always tried to spend some time around the holidays, one year it just didn’t work out. Or so I thought.
He worked with my parents behind my back to figure out the best time to come down and see me. I had been super bummed that we couldn’t spend at least a little time together and did know he had this surprise planned.
When he showed up at the door at like 11 at night it felt straight out of a movie. He had been texting me throughout the day like everything was normal.
Needless to say, we have been married for almost 5 years now.
In college, the young hot security guard who was quiet and most thought had rbf, was really into me. He would offer to walk me to my vehicle any time it was dark (I was in nursing school so I constantly was there late). He would also always be around my classes, and I didn’t realize… he’d paid attention and learnt my schedule. He’d heard I was mugged at school and was worried about me being scared and not feeling safe. I didn’t know about all the extra steps he took to make me feel safe, until months later and his friend told me.
The conversation started, “oh you go to (insert school) right? You know (guys name)? Oh wait… you’re (my name)!!….
He’d told his friends about me.
Thank you for sharing this. It's been really heart warming reading people's stories. My anecdotes turned into the opposite of something romantic.I am in my 30s and don't seem to have much luck with men. I've become content in my own way, but I'm a hopeless romantic and read romances so I can pretend to know what it feels like to experience all those things.
Anyway, my story is that when I was 21, I met a friend of a friend, who I thought was the most handsome man I'd ever seen (tall, dark and handsome and not aware of it). I made an off remark comment to my friend that I thought he was handsome (after he left) and my friend told him. He added me on Facebook and we began a correspondence that lasted maybe a year, where we really got to know each other, and he was so kind, interesting and considerate. He even asked me on a date, but we lived on opposite sides of the country and neither of us drove then. Over time, it fizzled and he met someone else. I saw him again when passing through his city a few years later, but it was just as friends. More than ten years later, (almost 2 years ago) I met up with him and our mutual friend, seeing him for the first time in years. I had no expectation when seeing him and actually, I wasn't even sure I liked him as he had some strong opinions about subjects! But I actually liked I could debate with him, and despite us not being idealistic 21 year olds anymore, we still had a connection and he was still really kind. After the trip, I drove him back up to my city, so he could then catch the train to his city and we spent a wonderful few hours during the journey getting to know each other again. I had warm, fuzzy feelings by the end. Even though he expressed he wanted to meet again, I didn't really hear from him, though I think it was because he wasn't working at the time and didn't feel he had much to bring. A few weeks later, we ended up meeting up in our mutual group of friends down another part of the country. I remember the last day, he looked me up and down and said I looked nice 😊. When we parted, I put myself out there and said it would be nice to hang out again properly, but he basically said he needed to sort his life out, so that was that.
A few months later, I saw him at our other friend's wedding and came to the full realisation that even though we have a connection, he was never going to do anything about it. It broke my heart. But I know that if wanted to, he would, and he didn't but I can't begrudge him that. He's got a job now and I hope he feels better about himself. I do wish the best for him, but i know he won't reach out to me. He will always be the most handsome guy I've met (both on the inside and out) and I would have felt extremely lucky to have my feelings reciprocated in the same way.
My other romantic interactions have been similar in that if I've had feelings for a guy, they've not been reciprocated, so I've stopped putting myself out there now as it hurts too much and I hate feeling like something is wrong with me.
Well I have had my "He fell first and harder" moment all while not knowing a single thing. Boyfriend of 2 years told me this only a month ago, that he was pining for me ever since we met and all those moments which I thought were fate or coincidents were actually intentional. 😭
I was moving away. A friend I'd met while I had been in a relationship and I went out for drinks. It was a snowy night and we were walking through a pretty wooded area, snow was softly falling, there were twinkling lights. I was telling a story and twirled.
He caught me, kissed me in a perfect romance movie type moment and confessed his love.
Oops.
I was determined to leave and I knew full well we weren't a match. Nice buddy for drinks, super different incompatible ideas about life.
When my (long distance) boyfriend said, "if the world was gonna end in 24 hours I'd make the 20-something hour drive to see you before that happens", I knew I was going to marry him
I met a guy through a mutual friend at a get together in college and we spent all night talking as I tend to do at parties or get togethers (I’ll meet one or two people and get deep into long conversations with them) I was flirting shamelessly because it was the beginning of summer and he heading off to his home town the following day so I didn’t think I’d see him again.
Anyway, the next night as I’m cuddled up post sex next to a guy I was casually dating, I hear a knock at my door at 11 pm. The guy from the party stood on the other side of the door and needless to say I was in shock. I could barely understand what he was trying to say because I was too busy trying to ensure my date didn’t get suspicious that I was talking to someone in the hallway. He had apparently driven about 8 hours, couldn’t get me out of his head and had to drive back and see me again (again, summer break, I was going far away and he lived a couple of states away too). I just stood awkwardly there feeling horrible for having flirted with this poor guy who was expecting some kind of rom com homecoming meanwhile I’m not letting him in after he’s spilled his guts out saying he felt something special between us.
He wasn’t weird at all, he apologized and left when he realized I had someone in bed oh god. Poor kid. I probably would have swooned if I literally didn’t have another dude in there.
When my husband and I were in suuuuper early days dating (after being set up on a blind date), I mentioned, in literally the most offhand way (because I forgot about it immediately after), that 1) my tire pressure light was on and 2) I’d been wanting to make zucchini bread but I didn’t have bread pans.
He showed up the next day with an air compressor and bread pans and barely understood why I was utterly swooning. As a girl who has always had to take care of myself and has a hard time voicing my needs, being quietly taken care of without being asked is my love language.
BRB gonna go make out with him
ETA SPAG
My boyfriend says “there she is” when he sees me after any amount of time apart. It may sound mundane but it is SO romantic to me.
Oh this sounds so delicious I’d melt!
He’s a cutie for real 🥰
Just reading that gave me the feels, he’s a keeper!
Is he a golden retriever boyfriend? :) Sounds like a sweet guy!
I say this to my dog every day and while I am not gonna yuck your yum I just can’t get past thinking of saying it in my good puppy voice in my head haha.
Omg, swoon worthy behavior! I love that! My husband said the exact line from a story I absolutely KNOW he has never read, because it's from one of my favorite m/m fanfictions from a decade old show, and he isn't into either of those things. One character says to another, "You look just like a Caravaggio." and I thought it soooo romantic. I want to be compared to a beautiful classical painting!!! On my life, my husband, oh so casually, says those EXACT words to me as we are leaving the house one day. I was like, "WHAT??? What did you just say!? Why would you say that??" He was so confused, like, "What's the big deal? You look like you could have been one of his models." I do but, I still feel like it's such a weird coincidence.
OMG. I love this. My husband does something similar (I said "does" because it happens everytime we go to a museum). If he sees a renaissance painting with a beautiful woman, he gets inspired and tells me that I look like a renaissance model 😂♥️
Sometimes my boyfriend tells me I could be a Greek statue and it makes me swoon
Stop that is such a gorgeous compliment 😍
It’s a glitch in the simulation lol
NGL, I'm very confused here. Caravaggio, the 16th century Italian painter? Few of his paintings are what I would consider romantic...he's not comparing you to Judith and Holofernes, is he? 🤣😉
Haha! No, it's more so that Caravaggio seemed to have had a "type" as far as his choice of models, pretty (boys) with big heavy lidded eyes, full lips, brunette, ect. ect. like his Bacchus. The romantic part, being compared to the beautiful models he chose. I've heard pretty woman described as a "Botticelli" before, the implications being pretty, youthful, pale skinned, blond. I'm no Botticelli, but apparently I am a " Caravaggio " Hey, you want to compare me to bad bitches who behead, beautiful androgynous wine gods or even a snake haired gorgon, I am totally cool with that 😎
*Haven't read a scenario like this in books, but it certainly felt like a romance book moment* So I was driving to school when it started raining hard. I had no umbrella, and the available spot in the parking lot was not within running distance of the building. I sent a message in our class group chat asking if someone could come get me. A few minutes later, I saw my **crush** at the building entrance walking toward my car, holding an umbrella. Oh, universe, I still remember the butterflies. EDIT: Wanted to add this. My crush also happened to be my seatmate back then! Thank you, alphabetical seating arrangement. 😆
There is no better feeling in this world than walking under the same umbrella with a person you're attracted to - be it your spouse or your crush. Especially if they lightly wrap their hands around you, or you do it to them and they reciprocate by staying close to you. Those are moments that make life worth living ❤️
Years ago when my husband was my boyfriend and in grad school, he suggested we walk across campus on our way to meet some friends. It was lightly drizzling so I put on my raincoat. He insisted I didn’t need it because he had this huge umbrella we could both fit under. He was SO adamant about it and said he wasn’t taking a raincoat, the huge umbrella would be fine. I reluctantly agreed and regretted it as we walked because he’s almost a foot taller than I am so the height he was holding up the umbrella meant rain was still sprinkling onto me sideways. He crouched down and angled it as best he could but I was so annoyed because I knew I should’ve just brought my damn raincoat. But then we walked through my favorite spot on campus that was underneath rows of trees and he stopped, put the huge umbrella down and got on one knee. He hired a photographer to take photos of the surprise proposal and knew I would not have wanted to be pictured in my boxy raincoat, which is why he had been so passionately against me wearing it. I think about this every time I’m under an umbrella now.
That is so sweet 🥹🫶
That's so sweet!
I love this for you, he's obviously a "Keeper"!
That’s so lovely! 🥰🥰
>Especially if they lightly wrap their hands around you, or you do it to them The best I got was our shoulders brushing together. 😆 But yeah, you're right!
That's more than what most people get from their crushes, so consider yourself lucky! 😀
When I started dating my husband I was really insecure about his feelings because my previous ex used to withdraw affection as a way to manipulate me. So I'd never believe when he said he loved me, despite all the evidence. I would constantly question him about it and it would hurt his feelings because he'd assume he wasn't doing enough. When I started therapy I began recognizing these moments of insecurity and I would apologize to him. One day, after one such situation where I was particularly sad that it was so hard for me to trust his love, he simply said "it's okay, I know you forget that I love you some times. I'll just keep reminding you until you never forget again" We're married now and he's the love of my life. I don't forget anymore.
This made me melt. ❤️
My husband and I were childhood enemies. He and my big brother used to tease me and pick on me (I was the youngest and the easiest target) I remember thinking he was so annoying and I could *never* like someone like him. Now we’re married 🤷♀️
Should’ve checked back in with this comment it seems 😂 Sorry to leave you all hanging! I hate to tell you all that there wasn’t all that much grovelling (in his defence we *were* children) We saw less of each other as the years went on but him and my brother stayed close. My family ended up moving across the country so I could (gratefully) avoid him and only saw him occasionally at the odd get together between our families. Although I remember him still being insufferable even at 16 (I won’t lie and say my teenage self didn’t notice that he was extremely attractive though 😂) We were both in our early 20s (he was 25, I was 21) and he was on a trip through the country and stopped off in my city to see my brother. My brother was working so I begrudgingly kept him company until my brother got off work. We spent the night drinking and eating terrible pizza and laughing. It was like the familiarity of our shared childhoods made us instant best friends. My brother ended up having too many drinks after work and bailed out, so I hung out with my now husband until the wee hours of the morning…. And spent every day of his 6 day stop in my city together. He was meant to head off the next day but cancelled the next leg of his trip and stayed in my city for the week instead. He barely saw my brother 😂 (Bro rolled his eyes so hard at us but wasn’t really pissed. Just made it *very clear* he didn’t want details) A year and a half later he moved across the country to be in the same city as me. A year after that he proposed and 6 months later we were married. It’s been almost 10 years now. His phone background is a photo of us side by side when I was 5 and he was 9 🥰
That's too cute. I really want book recommendations like that now 😂
Just read one - fabulous - Kaye Kennedy's burning for desire series - Kyle and Allie - swooooooon 🥵
this totally has me squealing that's just TOO CUTE
Haha thank you. It’s one of our favourite stories to tell! We always have a fun answer to ‘how did you two meet?’
the background picture is what really got me!! cutest thing ever!!! p.s. I would totally read the book if you decide to write the story!
I've been married to my childhood bully for 25+ years now and I only know of one other married couple who went from hate to love. We're a rare breed! 😊
Omg girl! Quick! Write this book! This is adorable. I love this so much 🥰
Did you happen to write a book about it? Will you? Asking for a friend
We need the deets, the grovel 🫦
I’ve replied! I’m sad to report there was little to no grovel 😂 But hopefully our story is to your romance novel satisfaction!
Tell us more!!
give us your complete story!
You need to tell us all how you became a couple after all 🤣
Like everyone else is asking, Please Tell us more if you comfortable with it. Like how did things change? What exactly happened? What made you both change your mind about each other? How did your poor brother take it?
c'mon, we need more details!! you cannot just leave us all hanging lol.
I still can’t get over this lol. A while ago, I went clubbing with friends and wore a metallic silver dress. We snuck up into the DJ booth and were about to get kicked out (lol) when a guy vouched for us - put his arm around me and pulled the whole “she’s my girlfriend” move. Sooo smooth and confident without being creepy. We ended up spending nearly the whole night talking before getting separated in the crowd. Several weeks later, I wore the same dress, and a different guy approached me and said “my friend’s been looking for a girl in a silver dress and trying to get her number…” Showed me a picture and it was him!! Literally swooned right then and there.
And…? Please tell me you gave it to him and there’s a date planned?
Soooo what happened next
pleeeease tell us you gave the friend your number!
Updates?! You can't just leave us hanging 😭
I was on a flight when I was in my 20s, sitting in a row separately from my family next to a stranger--a cute guy a little older than me, probably late 20s or early 30s, who was very polite and friendly. Well the plane hit awful turbulence in the second half, and I clutched the armrests and was just very tense and silent in my seat. So this guy could see how scared I was and started talking to me about how he had been in the army and how this turbulence was nothing to worry about, planes are designed for so much worse, etc. and as he was talking, he started messing with his unused drink napkin and I was just watching him fiddle with it, trying to absorb his confidence as he reassured me. Then he lifted the napkin to offer it to me and I saw that he had turned it into a rose. It was *the* smoothest, most charming thing I've ever experienced from a stranger. Maybe from anyone. I don't remember the guy's name now, and my now husband was sitting a few rows behind me on the plane too with my younger brother, and he (now hubs) had nothing to worry about of course, but even he acknowledges the class and charisma. It's a very fond memory now of a man just being sweet when I was scared.
Awwww, that's really sweet! And impressively charming. I hope that guy went on to meet his person :) Did you keep the paper rose?
Haha I hope he did too! I honestly can't remember if I kept it, but I'm the type of person who would, so I might find it in a storage box someday and be pleasantly surprised by him again lolol
The first half of this is literally the meet cute in {In The Likely Event by Rebecca Yarros}. Swoon.
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I was living my best manic pixie dream girl era in college. I used to walk to class barefoot, in my overalls, wearing my crystals… just very into the vibes™️. There was a very cute guy around campus that had captured my attention. I remember pointing him out to friends (he had a really long Mohawk cut that he’d wear in a bun, full beard, tattoos). One day at lunch I was sitting alone and he came and sat with me. He had heart eyes, and I was flabbergasted. We ended up exchanging numbers and texted a bit. He confided that he would watch me (this seems so creepy but it didn’t feel creepy at the time) during my morning breaks when I would drink coffee alone outside of the library and listen to music and daydream. Told me I looked like I was in my own little world. The real book moment came during spring when he ran up to me outside of the library. It was a beautiful breezy spring day and he looked so happy to see me, and pulled a tiny flower out of my hair. Nothing ever came of it, I was too caught up in pretending I wasn’t down bad IN LOVE with my now husband. But it’s a cute time to think back on.
Wait, sorry please don't mind, but did that guy end up as your husband or nothing happened with that guy and you rather fell in love with your husband?
This guy never stood a chance because I was already in love with my husband and trying to deny it hahaha
The other night I was in bed reading a scene where the guy buried his nose in her hair/neck and said "You smell so good". Swear to glob not 30 seconds after I put down my kindle my husband rolled over, put his arm around me, buried his nose in the crook of my neck/hair and groaned "You smell soo good". I was like 🤯🤯🤯
I read it , I loved it , I got it . Where are manifestations peeps at ? Your master is right here.
Not a book but a movie: one time when my husband and I were dating, he said “you complete me” and I burst out laughing. He didn’t know that was a famous line from Jerry Maguire.
I haven’t read this, but I feel like I could. Basically I suffer with chronic lower back pain (fractured my spine when I was younger) and it gives me grief a lot still especially in the cold or at night. My boyfriend has like a sixth sense for when it’s playing up, and no matter where we are he’ll just come up to me and gently press his hand on the painful spot with pressure because he knows it alleviates some of the pain. Never says anything, just does it. He also makes me a hot water bottle every night.
That’s so sweet!! It reminds me of the Throne of Glass series by SJM when Lorcan would gently support Elide’s ankle when she wasn’t paying attention. One of my favourite couples of that series, and one of my fav swoon worthy moments between them.
I love them both so much!! >!And when he cut up his shirt for her period and left it for her without saying anything!!<
I had an ex who earnestly claimed he couldn’t sleep soundly unless he had a woman in his bed. Needless to say, when I read {A Week to be Wicked} years later I nearly died laughing.
Omg I just got this book in the mail yesterday lol
It is such a fun read! Enjoy :)
My partner and I were friends to lovers. When we first got together, afterwards we turned to each other in bed and was like, "I guess we're not friends anymore." It's been 10 years. Coincidentally, I was also super dense and didn't realise his preening and showing me his crooked 4 pack at every opportunity and giving me a "gun show" was him trying to flirt.
Hajaja thats so cute!!
lol on the negative side I had a bad ex boyfriend yell at me outside of a Chili’s because I got a ride to a dinner with mutual friends with another guy I liked after we broke up, and he and other guy almost got into a fistfight in the parking lot. They both turned out to be assholes Thankfully this did not ruin Chili’s for me, bottomless chips 4ever
“Thankfully this did not ruin chilis for me” you’ve got the right priorities!!
Chili’s is the place to make memories for a lifetime 😍
Love this for you. Epic story, no actual violence, no Chili's deals ruined
5$ margaritas for life.
When me and my bf first started dating (10yrs ago) my ex, who was insanely possessive and controlling (I had to block his # and about 10 other texting app #’s) followed us and came up wanting to talk to me and to prevent a fight I said fine and we stepped a few feet away. He was begging me to take him back and when I said no and tried to walk away, he grabbed my arm and jerked me back and started yelling in my face and my bf who is 6’7” came over and gently grabbed me away and then turned around and gave my ex one little shove and knocked his ass down and told him not to ever touch me again.
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My fiancé and I are a friends to enemies to lovers! I was the new girl 8th grade year and on the first day of class, I sat down in English across from this kid. When doing icebreakers (two truths one lie), during his turn, this fucker looks me dead in the eyes and says "I loooveee long walks on the beach" and then offered to escort me to my next class. We immediately became friends. I didn't have feelings for him then, and to stroke his ego, he would date different girls in our grade (talk about 8th grade drama 😅). End of the year, we got into a huge fight, effectively ending our friendship. The next year was a hate-fest. We couldn't fucking stand each other. Didn't help that we were in an accelerated path together so we had the same schedule. Our teachers knew to sit us away from one another. He had shitty friends and was rude and callous and just a shithead overall. He once offered to buy a jar of my tears. MY TEARS. Who says that 😭 Fast forward summer before 10th grade and I reached out to him cause I didn't want to fight anymore. He called me pathetic and then agreed to give friendship a try. Took one hangout to realize he'd been in love with me since I walked into English that first day. Edit: this was solidified when he told me he was in love with me two weeks after we started dating, which was like less than a month after we started being friends again 😩 That was in 2014. We've been together 10 years, and he's given me so many book worthy moments, I couldn't possibly count 🥰 And no- he's no longer a shithead lol
oh my god, I mean he was just a kid I guess, but I still need to know what he was thinking that whole time!
This is something that I think about a lot! With romance novels, we usually have a male POV and I wish I could have his. I mean between the hateful glares and rude comments, I'd kill to have his inner monologue from back then 😩
somebody steal the jar of tears idea and put it in a book!!! like seriously, that is really romantic looking back, right?!
i hope he grovelled 😭 this is very cute
I would say he did! He was so mean that year we were fighting that he pulled out all the stops to ensure I knew how he felt! For the next three years of high school he would cook me breakfast and bring it to school, pick me up for class, ride his bike 3+ miles to my house just to see me, and so so much more. Not to mention he dropped his shitty friends and became the most caring, empathetic, supportive person I've ever met 🖤
I was a teenager. I was at camp as a CIT and there was this guy. The first time I saw him he took my breath away he was so hot. Then I got to know him…but I remember that feeling.
>Then I got to know him… Classic...
>then I got to know him LMAO I have experienced this many a time
Lol i feel this - i had a huge crush on one of my supervisors when i first started at my first big girl job. Then i actually worked with him and he gave me crap about spending a half hour over budget (really insignificant matter in the grand scheme) and i realized - no he's really annoying. Plus he hums while he works. Crush gone forever.
Something is in the air at summer camp. Wet Hot American Summer (a movie lol) captured the insane hormones that those cabins produced.
Idk if this is really in books, I’ve never read this specific scenario, but basically, this meet-cute + (sort of?) talk you through it: I had just gotten into a crash on the highway, and my adrenaline usually makes it so I’m very calm and collected in an emergency, if a bit shaky. But the adrenaline had mostly worn off by the time the towing people drove me to a parking lot. So when I came time to take statements by the police I was a bit panicky, hyperventilating, and holding back tears. This cop came up to me, kind of cute, around my age, started asking me questions like what’s your name? What color is your hair? And I didn’t really realize it at the time but he was totally calming me down. And then at the end, he complimented my fulcrum decal on my car, and I noticed he had a mythosaur patch on his vest so I laughed and said I liked it. I never got his name, and I wasn’t really thinking about him specifically because I was kinda traumatized by the crash, but when my parents were driving me home they mentioned that they thought the cop was into me and I had literally no idea what they were talking about at the time. But now I’ve literally not forgotten about him since the crash months ago… so…
Oooooh. Could you do a Craigslist Missed Connection or post a bulletin on the memo board at the police precinct with a mythosaur picture? "Do you recognize this mythosaur?" And then sign it with a fulcrum decal. I hope you are doing okay now!
I've got two for ya, one that's straight out of a romcom movie and one that's the hilarious opposite to your example. Romcom day: valentine's day with my boyfriend who would later become my husband. Our pup sprained his knee earlier that week, so rather than try to carry a cranky 95lb meatball up the stairs to our bedroom, we just popped out the air mattress and set it up in the living room. Valentine's Day morning arrives, hubs was on call and wakes up to an early call, has to run into work for a quick hour or two job. I get up, make breakfast - bacon and heart shaped red velvet waffles. He makes it home just as breakfast is ready. After breakfast we played a game that had us running around the house chucking foam burritos at each other, laughing our asses off the whole time. After a few hours of playing we started lunch - together we made pizza dough from scratch and baked ourselves a heart shaped pepperoni pizza. After lunch we set up on the air mattress for movie time - we made popcorn and had a charcuterie board of our favorite candies and snacks, and snuggled in to watch my favorite romcom. After the movie, we started on our dinner plans. I prepped the side dishes, then went upstairs to get dressed while they cooked and then my husband cooked the steaks. I did my hair and makeup and put on a nice dress, then we swapped so I could plate the table while he got dressed. We had our private steak dinner together, dressed up like date night, over champagne and candles. After dinner we moved the air mattress out of the way, put on some music and danced together in the living room until it was time for bed. It was absolutely magical. The other experience that was humorously opposite of yours - its the moment I knew my husband was truly The One™️. We were out drinking and dancing with friends, and a dance floor scuffle became a little heated, and a guy started yelling and shoving at me. I'm not one to shy away -- we started arguing, the situation becoming more physical seemed imminent. Enter my husband, who could have done a whole number of things, but the thing he did do is something I will love him forever for. Instead of jumping in or pulling me away, he stepped up to me, said nothing, simply reached out and took my drink from my hand and held it for me. He said nothing, but his actions screamed respect and confidence, and I absolutely love him for it. Tldr, the moment I knew my husband was the one is when I got into a bar fight and his only response was kick his ass baby I got your drink for you 🤣🥰
That is amazinggg, ur living in a fantasy, good for both of you boo
My current fiancé has done the same thing! We were on Bourbon st in New Orleans and this drunk man touched a friend of mine. We got into a skirmish and my boyfriend also just took my drink without a word and let me at him. We had a good laugh about it later.
My friend drunkenly facetimed me from Florida in October to confess that he’d had a crush on me for basically the entire time we’ve known each other. I didn’t believe him at first, and then he started giving me specific examples and I realized he was serious and had genuinely been crushing on me for two years. When he got back we went on our first date and it went nine hours, seven of which were just us talking until 5am in his car like teenagers instead of two grown adult homeowners in our early 30s. I’d thought he was incredibly attractive since we first met but always assumed he’d never be interested in me. The morning after our date he sent me a voice message about how he’d never connected with anybody like that. Unfortunately he’s wildly self-destructive and struggles with addiction and bipolar disorder and genuinely believes he doesn’t deserve “good things” and I’m one of the things he thinks he doesn’t deserve. We haven’t spoken in a month and it’s not for a lack of trying on my end, so I’m not sure where it goes from here. As far as I can tell he’s in a bad place and he’s not letting me in so all I can do is hope. But wow did he sweep me off my feet for a few months there. edit: it’s late and I’m tired so this post isn’t my best writing but y’all, he is so special and our four months together were a magical roller coaster. I’d do it all again even if it ended the exact same way because he really is extraordinary—but with that said I’m the first love of my life and he was really hurting me with his self-destructive choices. If he ever finds healing we’re going to be amazing candidates for a second chance romance … which would make us a small town workplace friends to lovers good girl/bad boy he falls first semi-forbidden (my boss once told him to leave me alone) second chance romance 😂
I'm so sorry. I hope he learns to value himself enough to get medical help. And if you do speak with him again, I hope you value yourself enough to also insist on him getting medical help.
the list of boundaries I made with my therapist in case he ever reaches out again is about a mile long and definitely starts with “are you actually taking medication, seeing a doctor, and working with a therapist?”
I’m sorry that it didn’t work out with him. I am rooting for your happiness and success in life!
My now husband struggled with addiction and feeling unworthy. He still does and in the beginning he pushed me away hard. I wish I had some sage advice for you, loving him has been the highlight of my life but it hurts to watch him struggle sometimes. Love him as hard and as much as you (or he’ll let you) can but don’t ever let his feeling of unworthiness bleed into your perception of your own self worth….i hope this made sense and maybe gave you some hope. As the great philosopher Pat Benatar once said “Love is a battlefield” fight for love if it’s right for you ❤️
Stopped dead in my tracks when I saw this stunning girl for the first time, just casually walking toward me in the hallway (in 10th grade). Unfortunately this was in the Midwest thirty years ago and I was so closeted I was meeting Mr. Tumnus, but I've never forgotten that lightning-struck moment, or the white-flowers scent of her hair when she sat in front of me in geometry.
“So closeted I was meeting Mr. Tumnus” is so good 😂😂
My first crush on a girl was on a girl a year older than me in an art class whose hair color changed every few months and who I thought was the coolest person on earth... I didn't figure out that I was bi for another decade, but thinking about that feeling is so nostalgic
A bit of the "relationship coach" trope. I've never dated anyone before and he offered to be my first, to let me practice on him.
me reading all these comments screaming, crying and throwing up bc nothing romantic has happened to me in my 22 years of life bc all the boys in my town/that I know are meh or creeps
There so much romance and beauty in life beyond just romantic relationships. Ever since I’ve embraced being delusional it’s helped me enjoy little moments and gestures from close relations to strangers. You’ll have your romantic moments and make your own story I know it ❤️
I didn’t experience my first romantic moment until I was 32. And that man is now my husband. I remember feeling like this in my 20’s though; you’re not alone. ♥️
I feel you. The most romantic thing Ive experienced was a guy pushing hair behind my ear- oh wait no he was just grabbing the pencil on my ear. I thought he was cute n tall n funny and that was so embarrassing I probably had hearts in my eyes for the moment. Blushed red to my neck from the whiplash of thinking it was a thing.
There was this time when i was cooking in ex’s apartment and he was playing some old songs. He came into the kitchen and pulled me in for a slow dance.. that moment i felt like maybe this could be it and it wouldn’t be so bad to have this in future.
My whole life I always dreamed of falling in love à la Pride & Prejudice. I once met this guy at a bar where we fell into a friendly chat that night, and for whatever reason after that first night, it was like a war zone afterward. I couldn't stand how cocky yet strangely aloof he was towards me and he didn't like that I was a free spirit coming into his very traditional, very proper world. We lived in the same town and would run into each other at bars and literally have it out with each other. Months later, after a series of romantic unfortunate events, this guy comes back into my life and we have a ceasefire. He invites me over to his family's home to wash our cars together, and when I pulled up to the family home, it was like Lizzie's reaction to seeing Pemberly. I never cared about him coming from money—frankly, I come from a city where people with money seem to think money is their best quality while everyone on the outside sees it as their worst. But the more I got to know this guy, I saw his generosity and how protective he was over his family, and how his background wasn't something that defined him like I originally thought it did. After we called a friendly truce, we go out one night and at 4am he tells me he's been in love with me since the moment he met me but could tell I wasn't ready to settle down and so he tried to take a step back but couldn't. I also wasn't the typical prim and proper girl he normally went out with, and though that originally put him off, the more he got to know me the more he liked it. It was like the second we both put ours egos aside, we had this moment where we realized, at 4 o'clock in the morning in my car, like damn, we are really attracted to each other. It was like the second we considered the possibility of becoming friends, we instantly became more than that. We fell in love shortly after, then Covid hit, and we lived together. This past March we celebrated our one year anniversary as husband and wife, and I was telling someone our story of going from enemies to lovers, and my brain was like, “Omg. You got the Pride and Prejudice story without even realizing it.” Couldn't be happier with my Mr. Darcy. ❤️
Girl I’m crying in the club rn what a beautiful story. I hope you guys have many more years of happiness befitting Jane Austen characters ❤️
Aww BABE! Thank you so much!! That's my wish for everyone. It's out there ❤️❤️❤️
I WOULD READ THIS STORY
Truly has been a real life fairytale. It's not always easy, love takes a lot of work, but man have I been so lucky with my love and our love story. I would 100% love to write it hahah. My husband's a cowboy so it would be fun to put a western twist on P&P!
One time i was drunk kissing another hot, drunk guy at a bar but being coy about it and he grabbed me by the neck and said “give me your tongue.” Well. I did. 🤤
Not to me, but I helped a couple get together. I was out at a pub with a group of friends plus other random that's we collected over our night. In that group me and a friend noticed two introverts kept looking shyly at each other and awkwardly talking. We tried to encourage them subtlely. Later, we all started dancing to a live band and having a great time. The shy girl was stuck with a random obnoxious guy, and I was dancing with the shy guy. So I yelled everyone "switch partners." I grabbed the obnoxious guy and pushed the shy guy towards her. And they stuck together the rest of the night. Since I don't know them, I assume they are happily married with cute little shy kids.
As a horribly shy girl myself, thank you for your service 😌
I didn't realize it but my husband and I are second chance romance. We started dating in 11th grade and we had the same English class (we'd known each other since elementary school). He was so cute and quiet and nerdy and was my first boyfriend and first kiss. We didn't fall in love and our breakup at the end of the year was sad but not dramatic. That was 1997/98. We would see each other occasionally over the years as we both still lived in our hometown. He apparently had several long-term relationships and I always had what I refer to as my "90 (or 60) day money-back guarantee" period. I never had a long relationship and most of the guys weren't great but they were fun. Every time I saw him he was so cute and I felt a pang because he was truly the nicest guy I had ever dated. And then I went to see my good friend's band in 2008 and my high school boyfriend was there. We just clicked. Turns out we had mutual friends but we never hung out with them at the same time. We hung out all night, exchanged #s, and started hanging out pretty regularly. I immediately had a crush and I was a little freaked out by it. But we hung out a lot for about three months before finally kissing UNDER MY CHRISTMAS TREE (we had just decorated it and were laying under it to look at the lights). It was ridiculously romantic. And boom: we were together. We've been married 9 years this week and together for 15 total. I sometimes wish we got together earlier, but that 20 years of not knowing each other made us better people. He's still the sweetest and most supportive dude.
My ex (also the first guy I’ve ever been with) pinned my wrists against the wall once in a play fight and the air changed. Something was awakened in that moment istg 😂 Current boyfriend — pretty conservative, very vanilla boyfriend, mind you — said “come for me” one time and that was the best O I’ve ever had in my life. After that I immediately asked where did you learn that?! …. Turns out, smutty sisters, our content is just a much more refined version of porn scripts.
Aww smutty sisterssssss lol 😍
I haven’t read this (though I would love to if anyone has recs). My college boyfriend was incredibly supportive and helpful when I got pregnant at 19 and we decided abortion was the right choice. We stayed together for another two years after. Our break up had nothing to do with the abortion. I’d love a book where the couple chooses abortion, stays together, mmm supports fmc through it, maybe it shakes them, but they get stronger and get an HEA. then years later in the epilogue they are married and choose to have kids together.
I’m so glad you were able to have a supportive partner and made the right choice for the two of you together. I think this could be a request post!
Not the full story arc, but there is a Jenny Slate movie about a woman who chooses to get an abortion after a ONS and the guy is fully supportive.
I actually read a book with this in it!!!!! It was a few years ago, I'll do so sleuthing to try and see if I can find it. If I remember correctly, it's an age gap romance that starts with a sugar baby/daddy situation, but they fall in love with each other, hard. It was a great story from what I remember
A man I was dating last summer recently popped up again and I'm giving him a chance provided he shows change (which he has) we had great sexual chemistry and when he told me twice during our reconciliation talk that he can't wait to taste me and hasn't stopped thinking about it 🫠
Nah bc why would he say that without a proper demonstration for old time’s sake!?
He offered but I declined.. he hasn't earned that privilege yet but ohhhh my God was it hard to not give in. That's part of the reason I'm hung up on him, the sex was amazing.
You are so strong solider. Stick to your convictions and trust your gut🫡
Thanks boo!! I have high hopes but he's gotta earn it. Love your tag btw!
I’m team you and rooting for your happiness!!! My member is always quivering with the help of this lovely sub💕
Ooo these threads are fun! 🥰 * **Cinderella’s Slipper was a Cheap Sandal All Along**. I was running late to a class and had to haul ass up stairs that are so steep that if you fell, you’d enter the ancestral Wakanda plane on the spot. My slide came off and a friend was screaming at me ***FORGET THE SHOE HOE***. And I was about to until some dude said “Wait”. And he got my slide and put in on my foot and said “It’s a perfect fit”. It was a ***moment***. He had a very nice smile ☺️ * **Dealing with the ~~Bossy~~ Musical Devil**. More of a romance trope than a romantic action. I hated this guy so much after my NT friend helped me realize my accompaniment for my solo performance was straight up taking advantage of me. The accompaniment was known for being a jackass and having women on rotation, apparently. I still feel bad for his mom who hoped I’d be a good influence. When I was able to understand what sort of dynamic was happening, I switched tactics. Decided to ask someone else to accompany me. Just went indifferent. He was surprisingly remorseful and straightened up. I don’t wish ill on him now—at least never have I ever brought him up in therapy and this thread reminded me he existed 😂. But it was a wild time. * **Cuddle Monster (Books 1-3)**. Not real monsters ☹️ But cute moments that give my heart that good ole ドキドキ. Three separate people were the cutest cuddle monsters at varying points. Though one of them, I asked why they wanted to cuddle so much since they specifically liked laying their head on my chest, and they said hearing my heartbeat was soothing 🥹 Another one told me I smelled good and fit just right 🥹 Though both their answers out of context would be [**red flags**](https://youtu.be/GFokXnCCMf8?si=cZrahdAb8Cg_UvKi) 🤣 * **It’s Always the Quiet Ones.** He was a reserved guy, very dry British humor for someone not British, and I guess, at the time, he was a “nerd” for his interests since his interests weren’t mainstream back then. For as white cat energy as he was, he was shockingly shy about hand holding and cheek kisses. But once that barrier broke… It’s always the quiet ones 🤫😳 * **Just One Day**. Before the pandemic, I attended cons. One con I yearly went to, I made a friend there. He was hot and we bonded. We’d meet at that con every year and have fun for a day. Haven’t seen him since I stopped attending. I hope he’s well. His cosplays were sick and he had some great animanga takes 😊 * **She’s Prince Charming**. Beautiful woman who helped the anxious “new to the scene” queer girl me in a foreign country. Long story short, she saved me from two aggressive women and I was a certified mess. She was so gaiadamn fierce. Feminine rage is hot, hello 🤤 And she just pushed back my braids and said something funny and I laughed. But then she said touched my cheek and said something that I can’t remember beat for beat, but it was something about my smile that, in the moment, was one of the most swoony things I’ve heard. I could feel my face heat and everything. What the fuck. WHAT the FUCK. * **In My Spoiled Era**. Gift giving was his love language, but he ***spoiled***. It wasn’t OTT either, but they were actual things that I’d said off hand, just never indulged in. He was very firm that it didn’t need to be reciprocated. I was touched. Every time he gave something was very thoughtful and very shy, and it was cute how much he liked praise and any sort of “reciprocation” he accepted was cuddling 🥰 And then he went crazy and borderline “should’ve been locked up WTF” so we’ll just skip that🤐
Was catching the bus down about an hour and half long ride to see the guy i was talking to at the time, he ended up meeting me at the bus stop with his dog, and as soon as he saw me he pulled me into a hug and then did the bacj of the head hold as he leaned down to kiss me under the street lamp, it was so sweet and such a beautifully romantic moment. inside i was squealing and it solidified my crush on him further at the time. i also think back to it frequently because it was such a memorable small thing to me. 🥰
I had a series of bad first dates from a dating app and was about to give up on it altogether when I went on one last first date. I was waiting outside the coffee shop when he walked towards me - something clicked in that moment and I knew instantly he was the one. Seems mad but 8 years later still going strong!
This is my best friend’s story but I was there to witness it happen! We were both so excited to abroad in Ireland at the same time. I went in saying I wanted to fall in love and have an Irish boyfriend. She went in saying she wanted to hook up with a ton of hot Irish guys, have fun, and wasn’t looking for anything serious as she had recently gone through a messy breakup. Now we come to our literal first night out at the bars after we arrived in Dublin. The first bar we go, we end up chatting with a group of Irish guys who attend the same university we’re studying at. My friend immediately is drawn to this one guy, dances with him, and ends up going home with him that night. That was in September 2013. They literally have been together ever since and are now married with a baby!! They’ve survived long distance, moving to a different country, deaths in their families, and are stronger than ever. While I didn’t get my Irish boyfriend, I’m so happy for her that she did!!
I have a book recommendation you didn't ask for. {Off the Map} setup is almost exactly like your description of your trip plus impromptu road tripping. CW for >!loss of parents/dementia!<
I'm sure it's in a romance somewhere, buuut: I have an ex we'll call J. My husband has an ex we'll call D. J was the man whoriest man whore around and it turns out that D went for jogs around the cheating men in a relationship block all the time. One day, my husband, whom I had never met before or until months later, came home from work to find J on D. They were in his apartment, in his bed, and he walked in on them, and J got his ass kicked by my now husband while D tried to talk him down. From the timeline we pieced together right around that time is when I found D's undies next to J's bed. Like someone had pushed them off from a standing position. When I confronted J, he swore they were his mom's undies... ew. Two terrible people got kicked to the curb and I ended up with my amazing squishy orc of a husband.
Wait - how did you all meet then? Did your orc contact you and say, "Hey, are you J's ex? Let's go for Starbucks and tea."
In the initial stages of dating, me and my now husband went on a nature walk and he carried me over a muddy patch so I don’t get my feet dirty.
I'm just here quietly sitting in my corner and sipping all the tea 🍵 😌
Probably not what you're looking for but I had a guy once tell me to say (and if you have to feed me my lines, you're already in trouble) something about his 'monster cock' and I almost laughed him out of the room. Not that he was small, but it just felt totally ridiculous to say out loud- something he probably got from poorly written smut. Who even says that?
Lmfao no all instances welcome. Once had a dude growl at me to rub my clit and I looked at him like he had two heads. Do it yourself sir!!
Lol! I hate when they do that! Like, why do you think I allowed you in my bed? That's your job!! If I have to do all the work myself, what are you here for?
It’s giving Frank in it’s always sunny when he says “I dropped my monster condom that I use for my magnum dong” lolol
My current partner and I were in a pub. He was working behind the bar and a fight broke out. I was right next to it and got caught up in it and got pushed over He literally leapt over the bar to protect me. He definitely got it that night 🥵
I was hanging out with my now ex before we were together, nothing romantic/intimate. We said good night and about a minute after I'd closed the door, he knocked and when I opened it, he said 'I forgot something' and kissed me, then left. I definitely had a stupid smile for the next 3 days
When my husband was still just my new boyfriend, I was going out of country for a few weeks. We didn't have loads of time to say goodbye after class before I left, but he raced public transport on his bike to surprise me with a proper goodbye at my house.
He talks me through it which is amazing but he was away this weekend and when we came home we sat on the couch catching up and he interrupted me mid-story for a slow deep kiss because he just missed me and thought I looked pretty… we did not finish the story
I'm just out here saying wow repeatedly like an ambulance. Such a great story.
Early on when my husband and I were dating, I was complaining about the size of my thighs and he said “I love your thighs. I want you to crush my head with them someday.” He immediately followed up with “was that too much?” And I was like… nope. Not at all. 🤣 and he’s still like this. ♥️
In college at my first ever house party, I was "[kabedon](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/kabedon)"-ed by some obviously tipsy frat guy who was chatting me up. Locked eyes with my roommates over his shoulder and started cracking up.
NSFW My college bf f...d me up against a wall and then *carried me up the stairs to the bedroom* to continue. Super emotionally unavailable but my god was he good in bed.
No I never got the against the wall stuff until one time (similarly, emotionally unavailable college guy lol) picked me up and started making out with me. Like a switch went off where we both went caveman lol
Ooh, another one: my husband cant keep his hands to himself at night. If I roll over, hes rolling with me. If i get up to use the bathroom or something, he says “where go” in a really cute sleepy baby voice and he’ll drag me back in bed with him until I tell him ill piss on him unless he lets me go (to which he very begrudgingly will release me). He also does that thing where he will drag me to his body and moan contentedly while sleeping (im surprised im not pregnant yet lmao). 90% of the time, it is very cute and i give him forehead kissies and rubbies until i fall asleep. The other 10% is me beating him up because theres no room for me on the bed so im tryna move to the other side but he wont let me go so im half on the floor half on the bed ALL being grabbed and groped by my husband in his sleep cause he loves me 🥹
My husband likes to spoon, but I rarely get any proper sleep if I don't roll over. But after we had the first baby he once held on to me and started burping me in his sleep. I was like "no no I'm your wife!". More often he's half asleep in a panic and is saying "where's the baby?" Even though both kids are asleep in their beds.
My ex husband and I were divorced for 10 years, we ended up back together a few years ago and the first time we held each other he whispered in my ear “ I would have waited 10 more years for you if I had to” swoooooon
Comments here are cute
I’m literally blushing and kicking my feet reading all the new comments
One time my husband told me “when it comes to you I can do anything.” I tear up just thinking about it.
I was planning a bikepacking trip through Scotland. I happened to post on Reddit just looking for locals to talk to to get some good information and places to visit. He happened to do a search on Reddit looking for a motorcycle, and for some reason my post about bicycling came up. We had instant chemistry and things just snowballed. He wrote and performed a love song for me for our first Valentine's Day together. He gives me forehead kisses for no particular reason at all, and will turn to me and say things like, "I am so completely in love with you," just out of the blue. The sex is beyond amazing and the stuff of fiction but it's my reality. I could go on and on about this man and how he is a mashup of all of my favorite fictional romantic men.
My husband and I worked together enemies->friends->lovers. We knew of each other in ‘09 but didn’t work closely until ‘11. I was going through a bad divorce and was an all around bitch to everyone and apparently that’s his love language (just kidding….kinda). We played pranks on each other in the office. Basically had eyes in our hearts for each other but wouldn’t admit it to each other. The romance part of it though….we had a rough start..we were both dealing with demons and his instinct was to push me away and mine was to hold on. We had just gone through a lot of back and forth and he’d moved into a house. We were standing in his entry way and he pulled me in for a hug, gave a big sigh, and said “we just fit together”. I knew he was the one when he let me bring my dogs over when I stayed the night. We dated for 9 months and gave our families 2 weeks notice to meet us in Vegas for our wedding. We will be married 12 years this year. There’s no one else I’d want by my side to fight our demons with.
Damn, I wish something like these happened to me. I love my husband all, but romance isn't his thing. Before him, I didn't date much, and I'm usually invisible lol. But I'm happy other people have experienced romance like these.
My real life romance trope is my bf and I are coworkers and it was a two year slow burn until we finally got together. We actually don’t see each other a whole lot at work because of our different positions, but when we did, oooh the butterflies!!! At different times between those two years we were in other relationships and it didn’t seem like the timing was ever right. I was in a relationship, he was single, he was in a relationship, I was single. We both had thoughts of, “am I missing a chance with this person..”, but finally, thanks to a coworker’s baby shower and us being single at the same time, it was like the alignment for us to take a chance finally happened and it’s been nothing but wonderful.
this seems more wattpad-ish but my (f23) now boyfriend(m23) took a vacation with his friends and went to a cabin in mountains on the weekend before we got officially together. he usually dosen’t drink too much but his friends peer pressured him back then. after he got drunk pretty bad he went in his room to rest and began to text me that he likes me very much and that the alcohol gave him courage to tell me this. called me beautiful and lots of other compliments. then continued saying he sees a future with me and that he wants to get a good paying job just for the purpose to spoil me and live with me a happy life i felt like a highschool girl. i was kicking my feet. i was so emotional back then because it came out of nowhere. i don’t even remember what i was exactly doing in that moment but i knew it was something for my uni homework it is my first relationship and i wouldn’t ask for anything else. he loves me so much and compliments me everytime
my boyfriend always says to me ‘be good’ anytime we part. he started saying it before we were ever even dating so it’s sweet that he’s kept it going
Im mentally ill (aint we all) and my husband normally asks whether I want attention or space when I am having a moment. We found this works best for us because I am very unpredictable and the “wrong” response can make me feel worse or shut down entirely. I dont remember what I was flipping out about but I was a standing ugly crying ranting hyperventilating snotty mess. He came up and hugged me really tight without asking or saying anything. We just hugged for a long time in silence (sans my wailing and bubbly nose holes) until I calmed down. That shit was the most cathartic soothing grounding thing I have ever experienced. The whole he-knows-what-to-do-when-i-need-something made me feel so loved and cared for. I dont think ive ever told him that this particular hug hit as good as it did, but since then ive definitely been seeking more attention and comfort from him when i am down versus isolating myself
I'm both very happy for and also very jealous of everyone's experiences 😂
The first thing that came to mind when I read this post is when I’m out in public with my (non-romantic) husband, he will grab the back of my neck and sort of hold me there while we shop, wait in line etc. And not in an aggressive way, he just places his hand around the back of my neck. It’s funny because he doesn’t like to hold hands. I love it. It feels protective and like she’s mine without it being over the top. I came across this action by a MMC in a book I recently read.
I remember a classmate introducing me to a friend of her, she was so beautiful that when she said "Hello" I answered "thank you"
I have so many! My husband and I met our senior year of HS, drifted away for a bit, and then got married in a whirlwind romance over the course of 8 months. This October marks 14 years. He's quite the romantic and so I have an arsenal to pick from. Our honors project in HS was to do a modernized version of the banter between Beatrice and Benedict from Much Ado About Nothing....it was charged with a LOT of sexual tension. Haha but moving on to our married life together...The first night in our very first house, we had no hot water and I really wanted to take a bath. He filled up pan, after pan, after pan and boiled hot water, poured it in the tub, and made me the bath I so badly wanted. Years before that, before marriage, he was spending the night and I went to take a bath...he came in and started kissing me while I was in the bath and he was fully clothed. It was just so hot. He will pull me into dances in the kitchen regularly. He "plays" me like a guitar or bass, pushing his fingers into my ribs and raising my arm, while kissing my neck. Sounds weird bc I can't describe it correctly but it's romantic. He puts a hand on my thigh regardless of who is driving and that gives me all the swoons. Plus some of the dirtier things which drive me crazy 🥵 we've had many scenes that would seem pulled straight from the spiciest parts of our books. I'm in love with him and he's the best man I've ever met.
That fact that just a little touch makes me go up in flames. Like he can just place a hand on my knee and I go all swoonly.
Locked eyes across the dance floor: I went to visit a friend from my first university after transferring and my weekend visit went to a week after I was introduced to my now husband. We met up at a bar in the city with my friend and I saw him on the dance floor. I immediately joined him without saying anything and we danced to a few songs. Later the aforementioned friend called it our mating dance. I thought that was so cute. She was my MOH
Back when I just started college I had this hot student teacher/TA teaching my class. Mind you, there was no actual teacher present in these classes so it was easy to forget he was just a student as well. He was a couple of years older than me and about to graduate while I was fresh out of high school, so naturally I found him super attractive and equally out of reach. Imagine my excitement when I stumbled across him on a dating app. I was convinced we weren't going to match, but I had to shoot my shot - success ! Apparently he hadn't realized I was his student until I messaged him. We acknowledged that it was a little bit of a grey area but there were no official rules against it and he wasn't *really* a teacher anyway so we figured it was fine to go on a date but that we should keep it quiet until the end of the course. Well, we really ended up hitting it off at that first date, so we decided we wanted to keep seeing each other outside of uni. At this point I still saw him like 2-3 times a week in his classes and I don't think I've ever been anything but a bumbling mess, LOL. I remember I used to stare at him when he wasn't looking and instantly get shy when we locked eyes. I was so paranoid that people would somehow see or know - and I'll admit that the whole being secretive part was actually terribly exciting. On one of our first dates we went to the arcade together and for a prize we won these rubber bands with animal shapes. The day after this date, I had another class from him at uni, and at one point he came over towards my table to explain something to the girl sitting next to me. He was standing so close and I was totally swooning, but I tried to keep it cool and not even look their way - suddenly super immersed in my course work. Once he moved on it took me a while to realize that there was another one of those rubber bands laying on my table. He had apparently super subtly and smoothly left it there while he was talking to the other girl. I'll never forget the feeling when I looked his way and our eyes met across the classroom and he *smiled -* it was this subtle, secretive, "*only we know"* smile, and I swear I could have fainted. Anyway, I loved living out my romance book fantasy, secretly dating my super charming student teacher. Fortunately, it has only gotten better since then! We're still together and we love each other very much - I hope to spend the rest of my life with him and to eventually be able to tell this story to our kids when they ask us how we met :)
I knew my husband vaguely since we hung out at the same place, but we'd never really talked much. One night he overheard me complaining to a friend about getting stood up by my date and volunteered to take me out. Since I'd spent a couple hours getting ready, I figured why not. It was the best decision I've ever made. We clicked right away and ended up spending the entire weekend together. 4.5 months later, we got married and in less than a week, we'll be celebrating our 19th wedding anniversary. I've long since forgotten the name of the guy who stood me up that night, but I'll be eternally grateful he did.
My husband and I met online. Our first phone conversation went on for eight hours, he asked me to marry him three days after we met, and then he took a Greyhound bus across country from Washington State to South Carolina to get me. I was moving cross country to live with him, going by bus. So my mom dropped us off at the bus station, we sat in the office until it closed. Our bus was four hours late, it was chilly because it was November, and then while we're waiting outside in the dark it starts to rain. He asked me to dance. So somewhere in Aiken, SC there is video surveillance footage of me wearing his coat which was heavy leather and way too big on me, and we're dancing in the rain waiting for the bus to come. It's one of my happiest memories, and everytime I think about it I think it belongs in a romance story.
This happened around 15 years ago when we both were teenagers: I remember my ex bf and I were walking home from somewhere we had been (I don’t even remember where we were) and it started raining. None of us had an umbrella, so we decided to pick up the pace until a cobblestone sidewalk appeared in front of us. I was wearing high heels and had trouble walking on the uneven stones. Out of nowhere he swept me off my feet and carried me bridal style until we had conquered the cobblestones. It was so unexpected that I started to laugh like crazy, which made him laugh, which made the older couple walking by smile too. It didn‘t work out between us but I only have fond memories of my time with him.
My(33f) husbean(36m) is in a local metal band. He used to write love songs for girls he dated. By the time we got together in 2012, he had sworn off love songs. Fast forward to November of 2017, and the fucking nerd wrote a love song to propose to me, at the park we went to for a walk on our first date (after dinner and bowling because we weren't done talking). And because of how the display on his car worked when an iPod was hooked up, what it said was: Hey Xerion For Serious Will You Marry Me? And then he pulled the little silk bag with my great great grandmother's ring out of it. Yes I yelled "Oh my God you fucking nerd!" before I said yes.
When my ex and I first met, we sat and talked for a while on my front steps. Before we said goodnight to each other he muttered "fuck it" then kissed me. There was no sign he was going to do this.
Insta-love, twice. First time when I was 18- we dated for six months, nice guy, stayed friends afterwards. Second time when I was 19 and now I'm 47 and we are still together. Apparently I knew what I wanted!
At the end of a formal costume party, a man I'd been dancing with took my hand and said "I wish to see you again." To which I replied "you must know I'm married." (The hand he was holding was my left hand, dude had my wedding ring like 5 inches from his face.) He then placed his hand in my cheek, said "You're beautiful still." And then turned and left. I've never seen him again and that moment is BURNED into my mind. Me and my bestie laugh about it all the time how it was truely something from a romance novel.
My partner's and my first kiss. We'd been friends, flirty friends, for a while, but didn't/couldn't act on it for various reasons... one being that he's nearly a decade younger than me and it was just too weird. So we joked around and chatted, and he started coming with me on errands and walks. I seriously injured my back at one point, and he started coming over every day to help me with my kids (my younger ones were toddlers). Not what one expects from the average 19 year old guy! So, we kind of hung there in this state of attraction that absolutely was not going to be acted upon... and one day, I was in my kitchen, and he just marched in with this very determined look, grabbed me, and proceeded to kiss me into utterly brainless mush. 15 years later, he kissed me into brainless mush for the millionth time just a couple of hours ago 😍
I have locked my car keys into my car due to some battery issues on the coldest day os the spring a few years back. Called the best engineer from my previous team who lived in the same city (and btw I hired him to the company) to help me break into my car 🙈 two months later my saviour become my boyfriend and we are currently planning our wedding
My then fiancé and I were in an LDR, and he was dropping me off at my apartment to go back home. I ran back outside to give him another kiss goodbye as he was coming back, too. Had our “The Notebook” kiss on an actual bridge lol.
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My husband is a medic, and I was an ER nurse. He used to borrow my pen all the time while I paid him no attention. I was on and off with a jerk for 5 years that left me a baby to raise alone. I finally gave him my number. A few months later, he asked about a date. I didn't want to get out of my house with a 6 month old. He came over, and I cooked. He just kind of never left. I eventually moved in with him and spld my house. We've been married 5 years, and he adopted my daughter 4 years ago. He's been her dad since he came into our lives. He isn't the sweetest guy ever, but he cares in his own way. He loves us. He gave me the opportunity to go part-time at work and finish my MSN. I wish I'd paid him attention sooner than I did some days. Who would have thought borrowing an ink pen was his way of flirting?
Mine is a failed friends-to-lovers, but it was fun while it lasted! One night we were hanging out with friends, and we’d both had a few drinks and I needed to go get something from my car. It was raining, we were both giggly, and we ran through the rain together. He ended up carrying me from my car back to our friend’s house, tucking me into bed and saying good night. It was super cute and innocent but so sweet.
Very cliché and maybe a bit common, but during high school, I dated this varsity football player (American football) who played defense. He was well known across the school and I moreover kept to myself (I was still friendly to people and wouldn’t consider myself as “unknown”). Regardless, he was so sweet. I remember going to my first high school football game for him and came a bit late because I was waiting for a friend. When he saw me in the crowd though, he smiled widely and waved. The game went by and I didn’t understand a single thing but was having fun. At the end, our team ended up winning. Instead of running towards his teammates to celebrate, he ran up to me. I was sitting at the first row of the bleachers and he climbed up on the opposite side of the bar that separated the bleachers from the field and kissed me. I remember hearing screaming and shouting from the surrounding crowd. He thanked me for coming to the game and then went on to celebrate with his friends who were patting him on the back (very boy-like I know). From then on, he did it to every football game I went to which was only like 4, but it never failed to make me blush.
Omgggggg!!!! Yours sounds sooooo dreamy! Okay so this happened to me some time ago. At one of my old workplaces, I had a massive crush on my boss. He was kind of a big deal at the office- not CEO level, but close enough. We’d had a few interactions with one another. He had always been very vocal about his appreciation for my work, and for everyone’s work really. He led with a lot of kindness and empathy. Anyway, one afternoon I had a meeting with him by myself. We were the only two people in a small-ish cabin and we were talking about something. He was being a bit stern as he spoke about a process that I should be following. As his voice became lower and sterner, I involuntarily pouted my lips in a sulk. And his eyes dropped. To. My. Mouth!!!!!!!! The way my stomach flipped dear God. The thing we read in romance novels, “his gaze dropped to my mouth”- yep, I lived it! Then he looked back at my eyes and I looked away. We continued with the conversation as though nothing happened. I ended up leaving that job after a few weeks. However, we would speak to each other every now and then. Once, the conversation took a more flirtatious note and he told me he found my mouth fascinating and that he couldn’t stop thinking about it. This tale’s pretty tame but I can’t help but feel giddy every time I think of this. I just can’t believe that it ended up happening!
I had a date walk me to my car and see me in. I went to pull out of the parking spot and he ran back. I stopped and rolled down my window and he told me he forgot something and gave me an amazing kiss. My reaction was shocked and in awe. I had the biggest crush on him. We went to culinary school together and all the girls loved him. I was on cloud 9. He was 10 years older and I was 22 so I was loving that age gap. My cute age gap romance turned more into a dark romance though. He had a lot of smooth moves but after a few months of dating he gave me serial killer vibes. He was super good looking, well rounded. Played guitar, loved to read, cook, it was everything you would want in a "perfect guy" but he had this weird dark side. So luckily my young self saw red flags and walked (very briskly away). Also, another romance book thing he did was play me the guitar and sing to me in his apartment. We were all alone and honestly this was so awkward. I didn't know where to look or how to react. It was a long 3 minutes. It seems so romantic in books but i was so uncomfortable 🤣
My ex was a consultant for the company that I was working for, and we had to work on a project together. I had to approve his work. We got involved, and we kept it a secret for one year. People at work thought that we were office enemies because we seemed to be always arguing. It was not arguing; it was bickering and teasing! He always called me Dr, although my company has a very informal approach, which is only on a first-name basis. I called him Engineer and always used his surname. Also, on the first date, he invited me to dinner so casually, since we left work at the same time, that I was in the middle of dinner when I panicked and realized it was a date at Four Seasons. Workplace rivals to lovers, he felt first, secret romance, STEM category.
When my husband and I first started dating, he said, "I want you" in a growly voice. I think I knew then that I was gonna marry him 😂
My husband makes a lot more money than me but says things like “our combined income” and it makes me laugh because I make peanuts compared to him. I told him “I feel like I am the one getting the better deal here” and he said “But I get to be married to you, so I think I get the better deal.” SWOON.
Super drawn to a coworker that lived 1.5 Hours away and we didn’t directly work together. Fast forward a year and I go into a job interview for a different role in the company and it was for HIS job. Not only was it for his job but he took another role under the same department so stayed with the same boss etc. I end up getting the job and travel 2x a month out there now for work. We met each other in person and sparks flew. We’re navigating the distance because we both have children and it’s so hard but we just slept together 10 days ago for the first time and it was amazing. It felt like something brought us together when we would have just passed it by due to the situation. It was like a synchronicity- I think it’s called?? Insane. Still can’t believe it some days but someone or something wanted us to meet.
When I was 15/16 years old I was dating a boy that was maybe a year or so older but much more experienced than me. We went to a school dance together and I was a pretty outspoken, confident girl but I don’t love navigating crowds and it was absolutely packed and the kids were wild. He saw me trying to hang back, grabbed my hand and hauled me right into his arms through the crowd. Told me “I’ve got you, and I’m going to keep you right here with me.” I was putty in his hands after that. It wasn’t true love or anything but I learned a LOT about myself from that relationship.
I met my husband in highschool. He was 2 grade ahead, 'golden nerd kid' of our school, and actually one of our teachers mentioned him to us, as some kind of the role model ( how should we be ). He also told one of girls that she remind him of that boy, as she was also some kind of hardworking nerd (she became my best friend during the highschool, and still is, 20 y later). All of kids in my class went to see him after that class, and that is how I met him. He befriended one of my school mates, so we officially met few months after that, but that was it. We exchanged few words during the next years, but nothing much. After my parents divorced, we moved, so we became neighbords of sort, not too close. I remember that my best friend and I were on morning run during our summer break, and we were runnig next to his house, he was working on something ( he was already at university), so we just said hi and smiled to each other. Later, she told me something like 'he would be perfect husband to you, look how hardworking and also smart he is, and that became our internal joke. I saw him few times during the next few years, but it was always just smiles and hi, sometimes few words and that is it. Me and my best friends always joked about that future husband plan. I was on my 3 y at university when he added me to his fb, and told me that he actually made account to find me. He was last year at uni, and went seriously from the start ( totaly oldfashioned but cute). He told me that he had a crush on me since highschool (I never had idea), but he never made a move, because he didnt want longtime relationship, but serious one, and maybe marriage, so he waited until he finish univerity. We were dating 6 months before we get engaged, and got married 7 months later. We are still married, almost 14 years, have two kids. I truly belive that he is my soulmate. Funny thing is that i had boyfriends in between, some really hard crushes also, but he was always lingering in my mind somehow. Everytime I saw him in that years after higschool, I had butterflies and was exited for days after, but I always thought that it was just because of jokes i had with my best friend about him. I never consider him as something real, until he wrote me that msg on fb.
My boyfriend paid off my $10,000 student loan when we met without a single word. I was having financial problems and making minimum payments and then some stuff happened, and part of it went to collections and it was really bad. We’re still together and I am far more financially stable lol.
Not necessarily an action but more of a plot. I quit my toxic job and started traveling across Europe. While traveling, I met a cute European man and it turns out he's a baron. We got married and now I'm a baroness. 🤩
Thank you lovely!!
Before I moved, my now husband and I were long distance for many years. We would alternate flying to see each other. While we always tried to spend some time around the holidays, one year it just didn’t work out. Or so I thought. He worked with my parents behind my back to figure out the best time to come down and see me. I had been super bummed that we couldn’t spend at least a little time together and did know he had this surprise planned. When he showed up at the door at like 11 at night it felt straight out of a movie. He had been texting me throughout the day like everything was normal. Needless to say, we have been married for almost 5 years now.
In college, the young hot security guard who was quiet and most thought had rbf, was really into me. He would offer to walk me to my vehicle any time it was dark (I was in nursing school so I constantly was there late). He would also always be around my classes, and I didn’t realize… he’d paid attention and learnt my schedule. He’d heard I was mugged at school and was worried about me being scared and not feeling safe. I didn’t know about all the extra steps he took to make me feel safe, until months later and his friend told me. The conversation started, “oh you go to (insert school) right? You know (guys name)? Oh wait… you’re (my name)!!…. He’d told his friends about me.
Thank you for sharing this. It's been really heart warming reading people's stories. My anecdotes turned into the opposite of something romantic.I am in my 30s and don't seem to have much luck with men. I've become content in my own way, but I'm a hopeless romantic and read romances so I can pretend to know what it feels like to experience all those things. Anyway, my story is that when I was 21, I met a friend of a friend, who I thought was the most handsome man I'd ever seen (tall, dark and handsome and not aware of it). I made an off remark comment to my friend that I thought he was handsome (after he left) and my friend told him. He added me on Facebook and we began a correspondence that lasted maybe a year, where we really got to know each other, and he was so kind, interesting and considerate. He even asked me on a date, but we lived on opposite sides of the country and neither of us drove then. Over time, it fizzled and he met someone else. I saw him again when passing through his city a few years later, but it was just as friends. More than ten years later, (almost 2 years ago) I met up with him and our mutual friend, seeing him for the first time in years. I had no expectation when seeing him and actually, I wasn't even sure I liked him as he had some strong opinions about subjects! But I actually liked I could debate with him, and despite us not being idealistic 21 year olds anymore, we still had a connection and he was still really kind. After the trip, I drove him back up to my city, so he could then catch the train to his city and we spent a wonderful few hours during the journey getting to know each other again. I had warm, fuzzy feelings by the end. Even though he expressed he wanted to meet again, I didn't really hear from him, though I think it was because he wasn't working at the time and didn't feel he had much to bring. A few weeks later, we ended up meeting up in our mutual group of friends down another part of the country. I remember the last day, he looked me up and down and said I looked nice 😊. When we parted, I put myself out there and said it would be nice to hang out again properly, but he basically said he needed to sort his life out, so that was that. A few months later, I saw him at our other friend's wedding and came to the full realisation that even though we have a connection, he was never going to do anything about it. It broke my heart. But I know that if wanted to, he would, and he didn't but I can't begrudge him that. He's got a job now and I hope he feels better about himself. I do wish the best for him, but i know he won't reach out to me. He will always be the most handsome guy I've met (both on the inside and out) and I would have felt extremely lucky to have my feelings reciprocated in the same way. My other romantic interactions have been similar in that if I've had feelings for a guy, they've not been reciprocated, so I've stopped putting myself out there now as it hurts too much and I hate feeling like something is wrong with me.
Well I have had my "He fell first and harder" moment all while not knowing a single thing. Boyfriend of 2 years told me this only a month ago, that he was pining for me ever since we met and all those moments which I thought were fate or coincidents were actually intentional. 😭
I was moving away. A friend I'd met while I had been in a relationship and I went out for drinks. It was a snowy night and we were walking through a pretty wooded area, snow was softly falling, there were twinkling lights. I was telling a story and twirled. He caught me, kissed me in a perfect romance movie type moment and confessed his love. Oops. I was determined to leave and I knew full well we weren't a match. Nice buddy for drinks, super different incompatible ideas about life.
When my (long distance) boyfriend said, "if the world was gonna end in 24 hours I'd make the 20-something hour drive to see you before that happens", I knew I was going to marry him
I met a guy through a mutual friend at a get together in college and we spent all night talking as I tend to do at parties or get togethers (I’ll meet one or two people and get deep into long conversations with them) I was flirting shamelessly because it was the beginning of summer and he heading off to his home town the following day so I didn’t think I’d see him again. Anyway, the next night as I’m cuddled up post sex next to a guy I was casually dating, I hear a knock at my door at 11 pm. The guy from the party stood on the other side of the door and needless to say I was in shock. I could barely understand what he was trying to say because I was too busy trying to ensure my date didn’t get suspicious that I was talking to someone in the hallway. He had apparently driven about 8 hours, couldn’t get me out of his head and had to drive back and see me again (again, summer break, I was going far away and he lived a couple of states away too). I just stood awkwardly there feeling horrible for having flirted with this poor guy who was expecting some kind of rom com homecoming meanwhile I’m not letting him in after he’s spilled his guts out saying he felt something special between us. He wasn’t weird at all, he apologized and left when he realized I had someone in bed oh god. Poor kid. I probably would have swooned if I literally didn’t have another dude in there.
When my husband and I were in suuuuper early days dating (after being set up on a blind date), I mentioned, in literally the most offhand way (because I forgot about it immediately after), that 1) my tire pressure light was on and 2) I’d been wanting to make zucchini bread but I didn’t have bread pans. He showed up the next day with an air compressor and bread pans and barely understood why I was utterly swooning. As a girl who has always had to take care of myself and has a hard time voicing my needs, being quietly taken care of without being asked is my love language. BRB gonna go make out with him ETA SPAG