sometimes simon cowell
I’m watching ‘Three Sisters’. Morning syndication at its best. The middle blonde is reminiscing. Ooohing and aahhing about the day she fell in love. The absolute moment she just knew. She fell the second she lay eyes on him. He fell three months later, as he watched her eat a pepper off the floor.
My absolute moment came while packing for the redeye. In the middle of socks, suitcases and filthy timberland boots. The smell of clean laundry and the scent that’s just him. In a mad rush it hit me. Wham! Just like that. I knew.
But when did it hit him? I ask, because I never have before: “Love. The exact moment you fell. When was it?”
He doesn’t lift his eyes from the paper. He doesn’t put down his coffee cup. “Well I didn’t really fall,” he says “It was more like a gradual downward slide.”
(And he wonders why I sometimes call him Simon Cowell.)
“What I mean darling,” He looks at me and smiles. “Is I’m still falling. Every day.”
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That moment. Ah, feeling all mushy now. It happened the first night we met. We were in a cafe talking, the world dissapeared, his blue eyes were level on mine and he was truly listening to what I had to say. He told me he loved me on our second date. I argued with him, told him he couldn’t possibly, that we didn’t know each other. I’m a realist and not much into mushy bullshit. Two days later I realised it was real and told him I loved him back. We decided to get hitched a week after we met, married 8 months after our first meeting, and nearly ten years later, here were are.
Sometimes honesty is just as sweet as the compliment you were expecting.
OMGosh! How sweet! Just follow him to the ends of the earth!
That is so sweet!
I love it when a man tells you the truth and not what he thinks you want to hear. To me, that’s the height of romance.
Nice story, Buffy.
I have officially melted.
Nice story. A little girlie, but nice anyway.
My wife and I talk about this occasionally, too, and I always smile when I think of the first time I knew she was the one.
Also, I am looking forward to reading your sample work. Do you have a book published?
He did all that with his SMELL?
I need to review my washing habits.
Good save on that one for sure!
My hubby is constantly giving me the best lines like that. And I love it every time!
Envy is green, but rumor has it I wear it well. That’s delightful and more romantic than anything I’ve heard in a while
Okay if that quote was verbatim, I think I may have just fallen for him too!
That is a great moment, isn’t it?
Wow, there’s a man who knows the art of recovery!
this is a great post and is very linear to my thinking today. i want to ask mine the same quesiton.
How Romantic.
He’s definitely the sweeter of the two of us. I recognise this. Appreciate it. Love it. And yeah, it is a lovely thing to say.
But Katherine…you aint wrong.
That was like…the perfect answer. Not too clichéd, not too sappy…just right. I’m still grinning all stupidly from the answer!
that was a pretty good ‘save’ on his part!
I agree with David, that is the PERFECT answer!
It doesn’t get more movie perfect than that.
I have to admit reading that made me catch my breath. I could see a young Mel Gibson or Tom Hanks saying that right before the big romantic sweeping hug.
He sounds like Simon Cowell – with a heart
That’s sweet. I’m sure you’re both still falling, but it’s somehow particularly nice (in my head) when guys who are normally a bit less expressive say something like that.
Now that is very sweet. Guys have a funny way of answering the questions that torment us, now don’t they?
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