How soon do you know?

I always like to take it slow. I don't date but even a friendship takes me a while and if I was dating I would maybe meet for lunch, in a very public place or meet to go to a special class or meeting I wanted to attend anyway. But I'd make sure it was very public.

Hi there! I am like you. Shy, quite and to some maybe old-fashioned. I also noticed that today's generation are too fast when it comes to dating. I guess teenagers now are more aggressive, bold and brave or even maybe adventurous. Maybe that's why there's a lot of teenage pregnancy that happens. Anyways, I don't usually go out and date with someone I'm trying to know. I don't date unless I really like the person and I'm willing to have a relationship with. To me it's enough for the person to visit me at my house and there we can talk. Maybe have dinner with my family or watch TV with me. I am also not comfortable dating someone whom I know I don't want to have a relationship with. Sometimes I wouldn't even entertain the person if he tries to court me. But to be just a friend, it would be ok with me. Don't know.. I am just like this ever since. Maybe that's the reason why I never had to many relationships. Ciao!

I think if I like someone, I can understand it soon. I can very soon judge peopel by talking with them.

maybe one or two year.you must distinguish being attractive from you konw someone. in many situation , one just is attraced by others and they even don't know anything about counterpart, this doesn't mean konwing each other.if you say how soon do you know others, i think it must be a little bit long!

I can like someone in one second but maybe one year to love someone haha.I like the person who i can share opinions with him/her.but it just calls like not love.As to love,i don't think i can love anyone only for his good looking.Love needs more understanding and more communication.I never date anybody on own initiative.Maybe just because i'm a girl:)

after a few days,ofcourse getting to know each other,hanging out with him or her.thats all!

For me it depends on the type of person or the type of situation we both are in. Sometimes its very easy to like someone and sometimes its different, there are different kinds of people and we switch along with people more easier when we have common interest in life. I am interested in music so for me it won't take that much time to like a person who is musically the same taste to me.

I am with the few minutes crowd. How could it possibly take months to like someone. I liken it buying new shoes, sometimes you try on a pair and they are instantly comfy, they look great and you know you will like them. I too am quite shy so it gets quite in the way of developing friendships and romance at times.

I awalys like someone in the first sight and hate someone too ,if but the attuide about someone will be change after a long time the hate will be like the like one will be hate awalys like this ,so now I don't make the judgement in a short time ,time has great power it will let me know all the real things ,love in first sigh is a miracle the miracle are not happen everyday the best way to make good friend is challenge of the time .

If there was a manual for hooking up with people, the movie and music industry would have both gone under years ago. All of those Romantic "Comedies"(or as I like to call them, two goofy people who like each others company uniting in the name of uninspired jokes that nobody laughs at, but all remember because they were sucking face halfway through the movie.) would cease to exist. I never took the time to gauge the number of days, hours, or even months it takes me to fall for anyone. the term like is a little vague. It's easy to lust after someone. As a dude, I sometimes feel like lusting is an unspoken competition amongst us all. Almost as if there was an invisible scoreboard of something. I have yet to meet female who I felt actual love for. I've met ones with crappy to great personalities, gobs of makeup and natural beauty. Never felt like I was in love with any of them.

Hi Sameroad, I think one week for me is a little too fast, i am a out going person, but i still think it's too fast to actually like some one. Maybe she/he is attractive or you think she/he is interesting, then you wanna know he/she better. To me, to like someone, 2-3 weeks.

You may like someone in few minutes. But in the next couple of minutes you may start disliking that person. Knowing a person very well is very important. How can you like a stranger? every one likes a beautiful person. But beauty fades away with time. What is more important is the inner beauty. A beautiful heart will never change. It may take time to know the persons inner beauty. But if that person is really beautiful then it's really worth to spend some time.

for me, a couple of minutes is all it takes ..but it does mean i will jump to be with that person ..u got to remember everyone is different and who know maybe a longer time period is better maybe u can get more for what u bargain for...

I agree with Dragon. I will know within a few minutes whether or not I am going to like someone in a romantic type way. I think feeling like you like someone soon does good in one area especially.....that means your walls are down and then maybe someone will like you back!

I can tell if I like someone within a few minutes, usually. Getting to know them better usually confirms that they're pretty nice people. It's good to be cautious though, there's nothing wrong with taking your time deciding whether you like someone.

Different strokes for different folks. I also think it depends on a few factors. The more time you spend with a person the more I assume you know about them, but even that's not always true because that depends on whether that person is totally being honest with you about him or herself, or if that person is revealing his/her true self, and if he is revealing his/her true self, how long it will take to know you want to date that person truly depends on what's being revealed to you and of course your attraction to him/her. I was talking to someone for 2 months before I knew that he was someone I wanted to date, then I found out 2 years later that he was thinking about giving his sister a baby because she was in love with him. Now before all this came along, he appeared to be the type of person that would never do anything like that, or even think about it. At first he told her that he would NEVER do that because it was crazy and she was his sister, and plus he has a fiance (me) that he wouldn't hurt like that. But he chose his sister over me, and that ended our relationship with the quickness.

I think it depends entirely on the situation. For me, it took me only 2 weeks to know that I wanted to date someone. Of course, we were together all day every day throughout those two weeks, but still. :D Now we've been together for almost 2 years, and it's been fabulous. If you really like the person, why not give it a shot? If you want to give it more time, that's good too, because you really want to get to know the person before you decide to take that leap with them. Best of luck!