There are a lot of practical factors that may signal you've found someone you could be with for the long haul. But there's also that undeniable spark that sometimes you just can't put into words. It's the feeling you get when you realize, "OMG, I will definitely marry this person!"
Luckily, one Reddit user asked married men to open up about this aha moment.
In the post, Reddit user pincurls asks, "Married men of Reddit: what moment with your future wife made you think 'Yup, I'm asking this girl to marry me?'" Here are some of the most adorable answers:"My Dad had just died, and I went to his funeral a state over around 5 hours away. So I'm sitting there alone in my hotel room and she calls me to see how I'm doing and I say I'm fine when I'm really torn up inside cause my dad was probably the person I was closest to. We talk for a while and finally we hang up. I was unable to sleep and at around 4 a.m. I get a knock on the hotel door and at first I was a little scared, I mean who knocks on a hotel door at 4 a.m.? I looked through the window and I instantly start crying. My girlfriend drove 5 hours in the middle of the night 'cause she knew I was having a hard time. I let her in and we just held each other for the rest of the night and went to the funeral the next day." —Techn9neisagod
"A bunch of my CDs were stolen. Like all of them, they were in a book. She replaced most of them for the first Christmas we were together. And it's something I barely mentioned to her, just something she picked up on. She still picks up on the little things, that's why I love her.
" —RunEd51"Out to the movies with a big group. Stupid movie, but there was only one other person who laughed at what I laughed at. I figured out who she was. We went out. We continued to laugh at all the wrong spots in life. We have been married almost 25 years. Still laughing when no one else does." —dellpepper
"Not married yet, just engaged. But once she drove us fearlessly through the most intense blizzard like an ice road trucker with nerves of steel like it was nothing. I knew then and there that I wanted her genes coursing through my progeny's veins." —cleverkid
"The moment we kissed the first time. It wasn't a kiss that should have been super magical. It was a kiss on her cheek. We were at work and we hadn't actually started dating. We had been talking for a bit. I leaned in and quickly pecked her cheek. The way she felt on my lips took my breath away. Her smile and laugh at my awkward timing made my night. In that moment I knew the only thing that would make me complete is seeing that smile and hearing that laugh as many times as I can for the rest of my life." —billyyancey
"She was literally the first and only girl that ever made me genuinely nervous in every way. I was normally so self-assured, so confident, so cocky, but something about her made all of that fall away to the point that I was a bumbling nervous wreck. Thankfully, she apparently found this 'cute.'" —Djaesthetic