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So how did you and your FI say "I love you" for the first time? This is a copy of a post I put on my own blog and it still makes me cry every time I read it or think about the day.

Along a Kansas Road

After we left my Grandma’s house, I told Jon how happy I was he just seemed to fit so well with not only me, but my family. He agreed and told me it was a wonderful feeling. The tears then started to fall from my eyes because I was more than happy, I was ecstatic! Jon has seen my happy tears before so he knew what I was thinking and feeling. I knew then I needed to tell him something…

As we drove down the country road outside of Hays, KS, I realized it was the right time to tell this man that I loved him. I’ve never said those three little words before so it has always been very important for me to make sure I really felt what I thought I was feeling. As corny as it sounds, the butterflies in my stomach and the flutter in my chest I knew it was true. I leaned to my left and laid my head on Jon's shoulder and asked him to pull the car over when he found a good spot. 

Jon pulled over, I took off my seat belt and immediately embraced him in a huge hug. I just held on tight and decided I was going to spill what I felt. When I pulled away Jon was smiling with a tender look on his face and then leaned forward and rested his forehead to mine. He then pulled back and gave me a delicate kiss before looking me right in the eye and said, “Sara, I love you.  I love you so very much.” He gave me a long, beautiful kiss and I pulled away and told him I loved him too. I told him I had wanted to say it for a little while now and I didn’t know when or where. I just felt this was the right time. I started to cry. The emotion that came over me was nothing like I had ever experienced. He kissed me again, and every time right before he gave me a kiss he told me he loved me followed by another kiss.

When we returned to my other Grandmother's home, I pulled my mom into a bedroom and told her what happened. She smiled, hugged me and said she could tell Jon loved me and it was just a matter of time before he said it. Of course that made me cry again!

Ah! Okay, so I'm crying again as I read that because I remember that day so vividly. Share with us your "I Love You" story!

Such a cute story!  And I love how he said it just as you were preparing to do so! 

fizicsGuy first told me he loved me as we were climbing up Mt. Adams (near Seattle), about 4 months after we began our long distance relationship.   He first told me about his 4 year long crush on me in Patagonia, so I guess it was keeping with the theme of awesome settings.  I had actually had a really traumatic experience on Mt. Adams the previous year...seriously the scariest thing that's ever happened to me in the outdoors.  So this was a scary climb.  We were near the place where the incident occurred, and we somehow got separated.  Not too far (could still see or hear each other), but some steep terrain between us.  Well, it ended up that I had to do a steep snow climb on my own.  In and of itself, not terrible, but given what happened before, numbingly terrifying.  He watched me from above and talked me through it.  But when I got to the top I just burst into tears.  (I know, "There's no crying in mountaineering!"  But such it was.)  I was sobbing, "We got separated, you were gone."  And he looked at me and said, "I would never leave you."  Me, "How do you know?".  He replies, "Becasue I'm in love with you."  Then I started crying more, but for a totally different reason :)

Awww that is so sweet...and you are still sentimental to this day!

We had never kissed or said I love you but had been seeing each other for a few months. It was my birthday and J surprised me by taking me out to a mystery place. I had no idea where but when I told him I was going to wear my white skirt he looked a little concerned, even though he was dressed up, so I was very much in wonder.

When we arrived at Waikiki beach, J walked up to the beachstand and dropped his slacks...to reveal boardshorts underneath. J then proceeded to  get us both in an outrigger canoe with a steersman guy wearing shades and headphones sitting all the way in the back, that paddled us around the shoreline. J looked really nervous and I thought something went wrong b/c he didn't say a thing until the canoe made a uturn, so that Diamond Head was in the backdrop of me  looking at him  while he faced me.  At that point, the sun was setting and J took out a koa ukulele, hidden in a large bag and serenaded me for the first time ever ...to a beautiful lovesong by Tim McGraw--but I didn't know that, I thought he had written it for me because I had never heard it before.  My heart was going to burst. When he finished, he told me that the ukulele was custom made and was symbolic of our relationship and compared us to the the strength of the koa wood and the uniqueness and beauty of the design.   He said this was my gift (I had told him I had wanted one when we had first met but they were too expensive).  He whispered I love you and I said it to him for the first time too. Then we had our first kiss!

Months later, when we scheduled our wedding at a favorite Waikiki hotel, we realized -after the fact- that the canoe was passing by this hotel at the same time we said I love you and kissed for the first time!  ONLY God!

I said it first, it kind of fell out of my mouth about a month and a half into our relationship. I said it as he was on his way home and I meant to say goodbye and I love you came out. He called me on his way home and told me he felt the same.

Oh ladies those are great stories!

Do any of you read the bios or have your own? I just filled out the "Who we are" and "How we met", but I realized there isn't a category for "First I Love You". :( The next category is about the proposal. I think it would be great to have the "First I Love You" category available so everyone can share the story on their own bios....that's why I started this thread because I wanted to hear everyone's stories!

So......I started a thread on the Ideas page that we should have this category. Will you please go to that page and comment? You can also leave a star rating too.

Thanks!

After being "official" for about 2 months, I came down with a terrible cold.  I was so weak, I couldn't even get up the energy to drive to the store to get soup and orange juice, and vitamin C (vital items for me when I've got a cold).  Even though he had a class that day, he dropped by unexpectedly and brought me chicken noodle soup, vitamin C, and Orange Juice concentrate.  He took care of me until he had to leave for class. I looked like crap (it was probably the first time he saw me looking so "non-ready") but he was laying there with me comforting me, and whispered in my ear "you know, I love you". 

@ Mandalynn--i have a cold right now and my honey is away at kids' camp with no access to technology. So being that I have nobody around to baby me, I can really appreciate your story of comforting right now.  (cough, cough)

AH! HAHA Girls these stories are great! Some are sweet and romantic, some include vomit, some include awkwardness :) Just goes to show we all have some great stories!