When was the moment you realized that you love your partner?

[Anonymous]

A few months ago, I began talking to this guy who I developed really deep feelings for. We connected emotionally and share many similarities with our upbringing, what we want out of life, and just how we perceive the world. The relationship kept getting deeper and deeper and somewhere down the line, I realized that I fell in love with him. I don't know the exact moment it happened, but that his absence would make me miss him, I would look forward to his messages, and that I felt this need to talk to him ❤ I'm curious when you knew that you had fallen in love with your partner? Was it a specific moment or just a sudden realization? I haven't said the words out loud, but it feels so overwhelming sometimes and like I want to blurt it out loud to get it off my chest. My heart feels it so intensely but I can't bring myself to say it because I have abandonment issues and my last relationship was very traumatic and made me more closed off than I prefer. So all this to say, I want to hear about your experience and how you first said "I love you." ❤️

[Simslover92]

Well we started as friends 11 years ago in college. He wanted to be with me then but I was into someone else at the time. Fast forward 10 years later and we became friends with benefits and I knew then that I was falling for him. This year, when we became official, I felt this intenseness I couldn't explain and the moment he said I love you, I knew I loved him too and said it back.

I knew all along that he was truly the one for me but I fought it for so long. It's one of those things where it's staring you right in the face but you don't see it until it's almost too late. I was fortunate that he still liked and cared for me all this time. I feel like the luckiest girl in the world. The love I feel for him is so intense, it's indescribable.

[Nikki1989]

It took a couple of months, which is very fast for me.

[Asker]

Same here and it was maybe 6 months into the relationship that I began feeling it <3 It's crazy how fast or slow the process can take but congrats to you on finding love <3