What were your early impressions of your Significant Other?

[Yavin4]

Did you like them immediately? Did you hate them? Did you think that they were idiots? Did you not think much about them?

If you didn't like them right away, what changed?

[Neoma]

1. Knight and shining armor.

[loli phabay]

2. hot and then smoking hot.

[woodsprite]

3. In middle school, I thought he was a jerk because he used to kick

me behind the knees and make me stumble on the risers in chorus. My mother saw him at one concert and wanted to know who "that nice little boy was". That was 7th grade. In 9th grade I worked up the courage to ask him to the Sadie Hawkins dance, so I guess that was the real start of our relationship. I couldn't have asked for a better partner all these years.

We'll be celebrating our 28th wedding anniversary this year. If you count dating, we will have been together 36 years in November. The good thing is that both of us say that it certainly doesn't feel like that at all.

[Dystopian]

4. Insignificant

peace~

[olddots]

5. Love at first sight

then we talked and it was like a romantic comedy .

[nolabear]

6. To tell you the truth I didn't notice him.

It was one of those situations where a bunch of people are living communally while at school and he was the brother of someone I knew. I was married. The marriage broke up and damned if he wasn't there. As it turned out, a whole bunch of us showed up in that communal group showed up with one partner, left with another, and have been married forever and have grown children.

But one of the earliest and most persistent impressions I had was of his "animal magnetism". Animals, children, drunks, old ladies, he attracts them like magnets and loves them like crazy. He's so much nicer and more at ease than I am that it's ridiculous. But I have my qualities too...

[Rowdyboy]

7. He was 39, first night openly gay at a bar. I was 35. I kissed him and the next day I told my boss

that I'd met the man I wanted to spend my life with. We had dinner at my place the second night and one thing led to another....

The chemistry was (and is) incredible. 24 years and 6 months later we're still going strong.

[narnian60]

8. I thought he was cute but too short. Him 5'7" & me 5'11".

Of course, in the end, it didn't matter, and 30 years later, I never think about it until someone mentions it.

[a la izquierda]

9. He looked like Robert DeNiro in Taxi Driver...

and cussed about as much, but was the nicest human on the planet.

We've been married for 8 years and together for 13.


(To be fair, at the time, I had a shaved head and several facial piercings...)

[Earth_First]

10. I knew...

I had just returned from traveling, and she met me at the train station very late as I was delayed several times.

We had only socially conversed among friends prior to that night, and it was a week or more before we had made plans to take a day hike...

...however that dayhike is claimed to be her moment when she knew someday we would marry, however it was that fateful night at the train station that I knew.

We've been co-habitating for the past 9 years next week, married my wife one week ago to the day!

[femmocrat]

11. Love at first sight.

I asked my BF, "Who is that cute guy?" and it turned out that she and he had recently dated! LOL

We just celebrated our 45th wedding anniversary!

[fizzgig]

12. i thought he was pretty cute and a lot of fun

we met the night i broke up with the guy i'd been seeing, we hung out again a week later and that was about five and a half years ago. we'll be married four years in a couple of months.

he was concerned the second night we met, though, because he'd gotten drunk with the punk rock kids a few nights before and hit a car while riding his bike home. he went face-first into the back of the car, had a busted nose, a couple black eyes and scraped the corners of his mouth. he kept pointing to his mouth and saying 'not herpes.'

he was a pretty good kisser for having a busted nose

[Tobin S.]

13. I met my wife on a dating site

So my first impression entailed a little more than appearances. But, of course, I did think she was cute, and as I read her profile she came across as intelligent and liberal. So a cute, intelligent liberal. How could I go wrong?

[oneshooter]

14. That she was one of the most beautiful woman I have ever seen.

That was 28+ years ago, and she still is today.