The moment I saw him I knew and this was s cary.

@Hatley (163776)
Garden Grove, California
September 15, 2008 2:16pm CST
hi mylotters do any of you believe like i do in love'at first sight or am I just a hopeless romantic? I had just listened to'some old cole porter songs and it made me remember the day I met'my husband to be. I looked at his grinning face, and thought oh myg this man is who I am going to marry. This scared me as I didnt really know him at all yet. but still I knew he was the one.Ten years earlier a fortune teller told me I would marry a man with the initals G.H. and that we would have two children, a boy first then a girl. We would lose one child. well all that has come to pass, our daughter died at age eight.So when he told me his named was G arland Hatley I almost fainted. So my questions do any of you believe in love at first sight, and in someone being the one and only one who is slated for you as a soul mate? I know one can love more than one person, but I feel that for all of us God has picked one particular person.
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@bombshell (11256)
• Germany
15 Sep 08
yes i believe love at a first sight thats why i married him and soon we are 9 yrs of our marriage.we call it "destiny" in our situation back then.
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
15 Sep 08
hi bombshell me too. I married him and we had 34 great years, oh we had our ups and downs but we always loved each other and had only wished we had met ten years before.
@bombshell (11256)
• Germany
16 Sep 08
i see,but the ups and downs also good.thats the way we meausred or love, how truly we are.
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
11 Oct 09
hi bombshell so right without the downs we could not appreciate the ups at all.
@Opal26 (17679)
• United States
16 Sep 08
Wow Hatley, that is an interesting love story. If it is true about love at first sight then I haven't found it and I don't believe I was destined to. I thought I had found it once or twice, but I was wrong and now I no longer believe that it is my destiny and maybe ever was. I'm not sure how I truly feel about it. I guess I feel like I was kind of dealt a lousy hand when it came to my entire life. Maybe that was just the way that it was destined to be. I can't exactly see it really being any other way. I could have been married, but it wouldn't have been right and it wouldn't have ever worked. So I do believe that I was destined to do exactly what I did and stay single. I believe that the choices I made were for the best. I don't think that God picked a person for me.
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
16 Sep 08
Opal hi you have my love too if you are happy fine, but if not hope you meet the right person for you. I think my husband and me were sort of the odd ones in our families because we seemed to mesh from the moment we met eachother. he was one of six kids but se emed like a very lonely man.
@Rosekitty (19368)
• San Marcos, Texas
16 Sep 08
Opalkitty..I Luvs you
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@vanities (11395)
• Davao, Philippines
18 Sep 08
great!!! but i guess mine was not really that romantic as yours...and not been in love for the first time we meet..it was develop through the months as we go along the courtship stage ..since he is really not the tall dark and handsome that i want...but he was so consistent and shows much love and kind to me..we meet when i had just got over with my bf which was of course tall , dark and handsome type of thing...maybe he was my soul mate unknowingly .... ..
@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
11 Oct 09
hi vanities love is love and sometimes you soul mate might be short and plain and maybe blond but you willknow that he loves you and you love him, and that is what does count after all.
@ja_gwen (55)
• Philippines
16 Sep 08
I also believe in "MEANT TO BE" kind of love that there is one person matched by God to another...once you found them, never let the chance pass by..I am happy bout what ended up to your story, it's like a movie scene..I also wished my love story woudl end happy as you.. :-)
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
11 Oct 09
hi ja__gwen I hope your love story will or did come out happily for you as mine did for me. I am widowed now for a long time but I had a good marriage.
@wehomy (7)
• United States
16 Sep 08
lol i know what you mean i once saw him and i thought i was scary i felt like i didnt look good i was so terrified off him i was freakin out like i was kreep out lol
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
11 Oct 09
hi wehomy but I got over the scary feeling as I knew I was inlove and he loved me too. we had 43 years together so it was really quite wonderful
• United States
16 Sep 08
I do not believe in love at first sight because I feel like you have to know at least a little bit of something about someone in order to love them. there is attraction at first sight and chemistry at first sight and most commonly lust at first sight, but think about what love really means. Isn't it accepting someone for everything they are including their faults, and how can you accpet someone for everything they are if you haven't yet gotten to know them? I definately think that there can be a strong chemistry and connection when you first meet someone. I have experienced this. And the connection can feel so strong that it feels like love. But in actuality it's not love. That connection makes you take the time to get to know the person better and gives you the opportunity to actually fall in love with them. So I think it just feels like it was love at first sight becasue you felt that connection right away and in the end things worked out and you guys did end up falling in love. I do believe that there is a soulmate out there for all of us, but again I don't think you'll feel 'love' for that person wehn you first meet them. I think that when you meet that person who is your soulmate, that connection I was talking about is so strong that it feels like love.
@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
11 Oct 09
hi geniouslea well call it what you want, somehow I knew this was the man I would marry and even after 43 years I was still glad I did marry him, my dad was against it , and my mom of course just follwed suit but ah ha when I had my first baby oh my mydad went ape over mylittle son, and forgot all about how horrible my husband to be seemed to him then. all ended well at any event. I still miss him after all the years he has been gone.
@gabs8513 (48686)
• United Kingdom
16 Sep 08
Yes Hatley I do believe in it and I am happy that you where able to experience it It happens and I know it happens But I do have to say I am sorry about your Daughter I know you have told me this but it is something that no one ever expects to happen that you loose one of your Babies I was also told that I would marry not be happy I would have 2 Children and one Miscarriage, I would be diagnosed with an Illness and my Life would totally change but I would meet the Man that will make me happy and respect me for who I am All this has come true as well and to this Day it amazes me how People can tell that far ahead
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
11 Oct 09
hi gabs finally got back to work on these old discussions. odd' how someone you never knew could predict so accurately all the things that would happen to you and evento the initals of the man I would marry. so bizarre.
@DonnaLawson (4032)
• United States
15 Sep 08
I believe in love at first sight, because 43 years ago, I met my husband.. There were no fortune tellers involved but we have stayed together for 43 years, 3 dating and 40 married.. We were very different from each other, he was an immature 15 year old and I was a more mature 17 year old.. We didn't marry for 3 years but we did date, break up and date again, this went on for 3 years, until he finally started acting a bit more grown up.. It isn't easy being married, especially when you are still very young, 18 and 19 is still too young to be getting married.. It just seemed right even when we were arguing, because we always made up and started seeing each other again, we couldn't stay away from each other.. So, it has been 43 years now that we have been together and I do believe we will be together until we die of old age.. I don't think anyone else would have either of us, we are so set in our ways, so we are stuck with each other and don't seem to mind it.. I still love him as I did when I met him and he does me also..
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
16 Sep 08
hi donna glad I am not alone. wish only that I had met my husband ten years earlier when we were in our twenties he told me he had come very close to my hometown when I was eighten and he was twenty four, had he known where i lived we met have met sooner. lol.
@Rosekitty (19368)
• San Marcos, Texas
16 Sep 08
Patsy..that was such a sweet story and for it to come true! I'm so sorry you had to lose your little girl..What was her name? I can just see you looking into his eyes and feeling so in love..thats what everyone should have and experience... I lost one at 25 who i felt that way about and he did too but after all these years i still miss him and have wonderful memories to carry with me always..
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
16 Sep 08
hi rosekitty her name was Lisa Rose and she was a little sweethear, her favorite saying was pick baby up. she loved every'one and they all loved her back. she did not look 'brain damaged at all but sadly she was. I am widowed now since 1991 so have some wonderful memories too.
@JayJashG (290)
• India
16 Sep 08
I am not yet married. But I happened to meet my guy very well before a year and a half.. It was more like love at first sight.But it was our sweet little secret. SO we had to keep it glowing for some more time and it so happened that we told our love for each other at almost the same time. Its surely the best moment in my life.. I never had a second thought after meeting my guy.. I am quite happy to share it with all here..
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
11 Oct 09
hi Jayjashg I am so glad for you,sorry it has taken me so long to answer these, I bet you are now happily married. good luck.