When did you know you had fallen in love

[rich p]

I knew the first day my 'wife to be' and I met and we couldn't even speak each other's languages. I was touring Europe on an Interail train pass (during my student days) with a Panamanian friend (who was later to be my best man) and we ended up in the north west corner of Spain (Galicia). We stopped off to visit a Spanish friend for a day we both knew from university and she brought along a couple of her friends. We had a great day together touring the ragged coastline of Galicia, and on my return to England one of the friends (of the Spanish friend we were visiting) and I ended up writing to each other for nearly two years. Since she couldn't speak English and I couldn't speak Spanish I had to use the services my Panamanian friend to translate the letters. Things got even more complicated when I left university, because my translator moved to the states and I moved down to Hampshire.

Blinkin' 'eck, Shaun, there's a rom-com in there somewhere. You'll be portrayed by someone handsome though

 

[JtB]

You'll be portrayed by someone handsome though

When my translator friend moved to the states, his brother (who still lived in Manchester) took over translating my letters for me. Whenever I received a letter from Spain, I used to drive up to Manchester from Hampshire, get it translated into English, write a reply, get it translated into Spanish and then post my reply. There was no email or internet in those days and that's how things continued for about 2 years.

After a while I thought I'd try to learn Spanish and so I enrolled in an O Level evening class. It was useless though as I didn't understand the theory of English grammar sufficiently to be able to study a foreign language and my memory wasn't good enough to remember all the vocabulary. Also, the rest of the class were all language teachers looking to get another language under their belts and so they left me behind.

I still remember the first time I raised my hand to answer a question in class. I had to say in Spanish that "Rodrigo is a dog with bad fleas". I knew how to say "bad fleas" in Spanish but I couldn't remember the word for dog. However, I did remember from my student days some of the Spanish expressions I learnt from my Panamanian friends and one was "son of a bitch". So by combining "bad fleas" with "son of a bitch" I figured I could answer the question. How naive, because instead of saying "Rodrigo is a female dog with bad fleas", I ended up telling the whole class that "Rodrigo is a whore with bad fleas". The teacher went bright red and never asked me to answer another question. I dropped out of the class a few weeks later still not speaking a word of Spanish.

 

[telesonic99]

Me: " I guess when we started to finish eachother's...."
Her: " crosswords ? "
Me: " yeah babes, crosswords. You finish my...."
Her: " crosswords ? "

 

[hackbike 666]

Never fallen in love.TIA.

 

[Old timer]

I was going out at weekends with the girl. she got fed up of me taking her for granted and finished it. It took me 18 months of E mails to get her to respond and then one day she phend me up and said she would let me take her out for a meal. she lived near the sea and after the meal we parked up and watched the moon come up over the sea, I held her hand and told her I didn`t want to go on without her in my life and I would change.

We have been together for 10 years and been married for 7 of them and i keep threatening to scratch the 7 year itch she just laughs.

BTW we have the same birthday and she just lets me live my life how i want and me her.