When Did You Know?

I was going to write a blog on an ethical/ spiritual dilemma. And I will be honest with you, I got to thinking about it about 1:30AM and could not remedy the solution or the ethics behind it, and will probably blog on that topic later, either today, or this week.

No, I saw someone on the world-wide internet discussing the age old question....

" When did you know?'

The question was, when did you know, the person you were dating would become your life partner?

Or for those of us of a certain age, " When did you know this was the person you were going to marry?"

I knew within weeks. It was pretty darn quick......My wife said " About 4 months" but then she said, " It was actually sooner than that." ( We both knew pretty early)

Part of our problem was we were still in university and needed to complete school before we got married.

I think the last year and a half we were dating/engaged, we both were just waiting until we both had degrees. ( I think both sets of parents were happy we waited. They knew how hard it would be to be married, try and work full time and then try and finish a degree.)

So, my question is this....How long before you knew? How long before they knew? Did they know before you? Are you afraid to let them know your true feeling for fear they may " Run for the hills?"