[Serious] Married people of Reddit, BEFORE you met your spouse did you think you would "just know" when you'd meet Mr. or Mrs. Right? Or how did you think you would identify your life partner?

A little late to the party here but anyway here goes.

I was always under the impression that I would never get married. Not just never get married but that I would be alone, I was very okay with that. It would just be me and many years of sloppy golden retrievers. There are nany reasons but mostly I felt I had a generic self loathing thrust on me by society and I liked keeping to myself. I never thought I would have that fall down, brain numbing, shit I would make fun of everyone else for kind of love. I met my now wife a few years ago and I can tell you from the moment I laid eyes on her, I was finished. I became a complete idiot around her. She was memorizing to me. She made me think about the future! And how I wanted that future to be with her. It was like when she looked at me she could see how hard I tried to hide myself away but she didn't care. I knew she was the one because when I saw her, when I heard that beautiful voice I just knew I wanted to hear it forever. She put an incredible amount of colour in my life, she made me want to be a better person. I went to therapy, I did all these things because she made me feel like I was worth something. I wanted to see myself the way she saw me. It was the weirdest, most amazing experience I have ever encountered. I can definitely say that I fell in love with her the moment I saw her, I just didn't know it yet. Personally? I think you know, its like the most amazing punch in the stomach. She slayed me, she still does. It was like one person was designated to put up with me and for some reason it was her.

TL;DR - I'm a dork and I would make fun of me if I didn't know me.

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