# When did your Other become Significant?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-your-other-become-significant/436678>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 7, 2008, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-your-other-become-significant/436678 "2008-02-07T14:45:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Ol\_Gaffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Ol\_Gaffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ol_Gaffer)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2008, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-your-other-become-significant/436678/21 "2008-02-08T20:19:21Z")

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We met the day after Thanksgiving.

On the day after Christmas I left for a three week camping and backpacking trip through the southwest with some friends from Germany. On New Years Eve I was standing at a pay phone at a rest stop somewhere in the eastern Mojave, freezing my ass off, and feeding quarters into the damn thing so I could hear her voice. I think that’s when I knew.

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**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2008, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-your-other-become-significant/436678/22 "2008-02-08T20:45:18Z")

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Y’all are making me cry! I love sappy love stories!

My “epiphany” was about two months after we started dating. He asked if I wanted to go on vacation to his hometown Daytona Beach over the 4th of July. I agreed, it sounded like fun! On a romantic walk down the beach at night, he sang Sunshine on My Shoulders to me - off-key. It made me laugh and cry at the same time. I knew he was a keeper! I think he even mentioned marriage during that trip - but I stopped that talk right away! In October he proposed and I said yes.

Next Tuesday is our four year anniversary! 🙂

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**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2008, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-your-other-become-significant/436678/23 "2008-02-08T23:26:46Z")

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I think I told this story before.

We had been dating for a while. Huge snow storm - everything shut down. The place I worked shut down, as did hers. Even the buses weren’t running.

I hiked to her place thru the snow. About four miles. Took me over three hours. Sometime during the second hour, I asked myself, "Is it really worth it?’

And the answer “Yes, of course” seemed the most natural thing in the world.

That was twenty-eight years ago. She’s still there at the end of my snowstorms.

Regards,  
Shodan

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**Author:** ![Ubertwizzler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/fbc32d/32.png) [@Ubertwizzler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ubertwizzler)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2008, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-your-other-become-significant/436678/24 "2008-02-08T23:52:20Z")

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Last two significants became significant at the first glance.  
Guess I’m both romantic and lucky since I’ve got the love-at-first-sight gene and they had the hey-I’m-really-glad-to-meetcha gene.

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