by Barbie Bertrand

Created on: July 22, 2008   Last Updated: July 24, 2008

I remember the exact moment I saw him. I had never felt such intense feelings of love, lust and awe for another person in my life.

We were on a bus together sitting across from each other. I looked up and saw his face and I literally gasped at the intense feelings of attraction I had for him. I had never experienced anything like this in my life. I wanted to go up to him, kiss him, hold him, tell him I needed him, and tell him I was falling in love with him. I felt this in the first minute of seeing him.

I spent years watching this man on the bus. I spent years waiting for him to show up for the bus or to go to his favorite coffee shop just so I could look at him and have my stomach flutter. I spent years in a dead marriage waiting for the courage to talk to this man, the man I fell in love with the moment I saw his beautiful face.

One day while we were standing in our separate parts of the line-up (separate parts of the world)of a coffee shop he turned to look in my direction and I finally had the courage to say "Hi", nothing else, just "Hi". I went to work and talked to my best friend who knew how I had loved this man from afar for so long. I told her "I talked to my little guy!". I was so excited by this little contact that I smiled for what seemed like an eternity.

For months to come I would be happy with that small encounter. However, with each passing day I needed to see him more and would find ways to make sure we were in the same place at the same time. If I saw him getting on the bus I would take the same bus. If I saw him heading for the coffee shop I would go as well.

Eventually this paid off and we starting talking. During many months of sharing conversations on the bus we both realized that we had the exact same feelings for each other. We had both seen each other at the same time and were so drawn to each other that we both made our paths cross constantly. This is just so bizarre because neither of us knew that the other was doing the same!

Finally one day we sat down together and said that we had some big decisions to make. We discussed the obvious, that maybe this was just lust, but then we also discussed the even more obvious which was that if we were apart we were miserable. We simply could not live without each other.

Through a very long and less than pleasant period of time we both left our respective spouses and married each other. We have been happily married for years now and there has never been a moment in time where that first feeling of utter love, lust and awe has disappeared for either of us.

Yes, I believe in love at first sight!

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