How did you fall in love with your partner?

@YourFriendforever

its been such a good feeling falling in love but it is hard to remember when I did. We were friends, I had a crush on her and she liked someone else. Due to peer pressure she accepted me. She didn't treat me as I did but got to know me better. Eventually after a breakup she came to me saying that she had fallen in love. I could never be more happy. I was already in love.

I met him about 6 years ago when I was 14 and he was 15, he was one of my brothers closest friends a year later and he got closer to me and admitted he had a crush on me

I saw him as a friend but I felt as though I felt different around him and loved being around him as I finally felt myself so we started dating and somewhere along the lines I fell in love, it wasn't obvious when it happened it was more of a blur. Five and a half years have now past, in 20 and he's 21 and we are still together

We've had some near ends but we are working through them because both of us couldn't imagine life without the other

I knew I was in love with him when we went out to the zoo that was our first day out together after waiting for so long he would hold my hand show me all around I never experience a lot of things and he let it be known that he wants to be the one to take me everywhere from then I knew i loved him

I met my partner on a dating site. I had looked at her profile and didn't think I was good enough for her. She sent me a message saying she would like to meet me. We met, had a good time, and a few days later she left town to do some volunteer work. Surprisingly, she kept in touch with me, emailing and texting, and finally a phone call which was full of laughter and good feelings. When she returned, we went out for dinner, and had a very nice time. The third date was a hike up into the local hills, and a trek to the local observatory. While hiking, we kissed for the first time. I think that was when we fell in love. We have been together for slightly less than a year now, and pretty much unseparable. We are so much in love now it is hard to believe. We didn't know how much we could love someone.

It was the night I cried myself to sleep because I thought hed forgotten about me, there was obviously a lot leading up to that moment. It revolved around being abandoned in my mind because I had a bad upbringing and basically a lot of people, friends and family, left me.

So he promised me hed come and see me that night, he promised hed sleep next to me and comfort me because Id had such a terrible week. And when he never showed up, I questioned myself and asked if I cared more about him than he cared about me. If maybe I read things wrong and this wasnt actually working out, self doubting thoughts like that.

So I cried myself to sleep because in that moment, I realized I loved him, and I was so scared hed leave me like the others.

I figured out weeks later that hed come to see me, he thought I was asleep (I was staying at our friends apartment in the guest room) and left me in the room because he didnt want to bother me while I slept.

He found out not long after that id cried myself to sleep over him and was absolutely devastated he had no idea, and he sat with me, held my hand, kissed my forehead, and reassured me hed never abandon me like the others.