Men
confess: what makes them fall in love?
WHEN SHE TOOK CARE OF ME
After a particularly bad day of golf, my girlfriend asked me if
I wanted some
soup she had just made. I said no. Then she came out with a steaming
bowl and said, “Eat some. It’s good for you.” I knew
right then that 40 years from now, after a particularly bad day of
golf, there would be nothing more I could ever want than this same beautiful
woman serving
me a bowl of soup because it’s “good for me.” Jack
McLaughlin, 35, bartender
I REALIZED I COULDN’T BE AWAY FROM HER
I didn’t know I was really in love with my girlfriend until
nine months into our relationship, when I had to move away for business.
In the past, detachment had come easily for me, but this time it
was different;
I couldn’t stand being away from her. I felt empty inside,
like part of me was missing. After just three months, I said to hell
with the job
and moved back home with her. Ronnie Daigle, 28, data entry
clerk
SHE LOOKED AT ME
My fourth date with my now-wife was one of the most perfect evenings
in my life. But it wasn’t the food, the beautiful weather,
the moon and stars we were under, or the impressive facts I was
learning about
her – it was simply the way she gazed deeply into my eyes.
It gave me such a warm, comforting feeling, like maybe there was
a person for me
out there after all – and maybe I’d found her.
Marc Hammel,
30, graphic designer
SHE TOOK CHARGE!
On a cold, rainy night in Atlanta, some friends and I stood outside
a sold-out concert. Dejected and devoid of tickets, we were about
to walk
to the nearest
dive and drown our sorrows when out of nowhere came a brown-eyed
beauty in biker boots who wheeled and dealed with the doorman to
get us all in. Right then and there, I fell in love with that woman’s grab-it-by-the-balls
attitude – and today she’s my wife.
Brett Chapman, 30, music
supervisor
SHE
DIDN’T EMBARRASS ME
My first date with Sharon was great until after I bent over to kiss her and,
by accident, I farted. Mortified, I pulled back from the kiss, expecting the
entire evening to be ruined. But without changing her expression, Sharon smiled
and simply said, “Call me tomorrow.” I thought: This is a woman I
could marry. And a few years later, I did!
Dan Gutman, 33, film editor