We grew up watching fairy tales and gushy rom-coms, with the strong belief that The One was right around the corner, and we would\u00a0meet them on a bridge overlooking a river at sunset, or bump into them head on in the street.<\/p>\n
The truth is that nowadays, you\u2019re more likely to meet them on Tinder or in your local bar \u2013 but that doesn\u2019t diminish the fact they can still very much be The One.<\/p>\n
1. They\u2019ve seen you at your worst \u2013 and they still think you\u2019re the best<\/strong><\/p>\n Rocking three-year-old Primark flannel pyjama bottoms, spot cream on your face and chocolate dribble round your mouth, they\u2019re still as attracted to you as when you\u2019re dolled up in your 6-inch heels and LBD.<\/p>\n 2. Your worst parts are their favourite parts<\/strong><\/p>\n If you hate the bump in your nose, your sticky-out ears or your knobbly knees, then your partner in crime is sure to find them undeniably beautiful. HA! In your face Jimmy Smith from Year 8 Maths who called you Dumbo until college. You\u2019ve finally found someone who thinks they\u2019re adorable.<\/p>\n 3. They don\u2019t judge your eating habits<\/strong><\/p>\n Not an eyelid in sight is blinked when you suggest ordering a curry even though you only went for a pub lunch three hours ago. You\u2019ve said you\u2019re on a diet and asked them for a gym membership for Christmas, but your lover is fully supportive of your choice to order the Black Death Chocolate Tower Pudding for dessert when you\u2019re out to dinner.<\/p>\n 4. They put up with your insufferable mood swings<\/strong><\/p>\n One minute you\u2019re happy, the next minute you\u2019re crying over an IKEA advert. You\u00a0don\u2019t know whether you\u2019re coming or going, but they love you for it anyway.<\/p>\n 5. They support your tacky taste in films<\/strong><\/p>\n OK, so maybe they want to watch the new blockbuster action movie that\u2019s out, but you want to watch John Tucker Must Die and eat a four-pack of blueberry muffins.<\/p>\n 6. They\u2019re nice to your family \u2013 even the weird members<\/strong><\/p>\n You\u2019ve seen the poor soul under the wrath of weird Great Aunt Sheila and they still come home with you afterwards.<\/p>\n 7. They like you even when you don\u2019t like you<\/strong><\/p>\n You\u2019re having a hair day worse than the economic decline, you\u2019ve got a spot the size of your\u00a0head and your tights have holes in them. They still think you\u2019re beautiful and will buy you wine to cheer you up.<\/p>\n 8. They happily listen to your work dramas and pretend to care<\/strong><\/p>\n They could care more about the life cycle of a fly than the fact Laura in Accounts gave you a dirty look or that Jim from Sales and Megan from HR are definitely seeing each other which is really unfair on Helen from Reception because her and Jim were together first and Megan has only been here about three months anyway. They nod, make encouraging sounds and at least attempt to repeat back the information you delivered when you accuse them of not listening.<\/p>\n 9. They want to do spontaneous things with you<\/strong><\/p>\n It\u2019s a Sunday, you want to go strawberry picking and then come home and bake a pie even though both of your pie-baking skills end at having a Mary Berry cookbook lying somewhere around the house. They agree.<\/p>\n 10. Whatever you\u2019re doing together, you\u2019re happy<\/strong><\/p>\n Whether you\u2019re at home on a Tuesday night watching Netflix together or sunning yourself in an exotic all-inclusive on the Mexican coast with an overpriced cocktail in hand, you\u2019re as happy as can be and you wouldn\u2019t be anywhere else. Except maybe Fiji. You\u2019ve always wanted to go there.<\/p>\n 11. You\u2019ve planned your lives together<\/strong><\/p>\n Arguments over future children\u2019s names have occurred. You\u2019ve sent potential engagement ring website links and ensured they\u2019re flagged up as High Importance in their emails. You purposely look at flats completely out of your price range on Zoopla and imagine decking it all out with the finest accessories from Zara Home.<\/p>\n 12. You get excited about buying them things<\/strong><\/p>\n Before them, the only purchasing you got excited about was buying your new summer\u00a0wardrobe from Topshop. Now, going shopping for them actually excites you, even though choosing their sizes in clothes causes a mini tsunami of fear to cascade through your veins.<\/p>\n 13. Being drunk together is actually fun<\/strong><\/p>\n You see couples in bars having shouting matches after a few too many gin and tonics, but you aren\u2019t one of those couples. You ultimately become loved-up to the level where it\u2019s bordering on disgusting, talk about future plans, do shots together and look after each other if you\u2019ve had one too many.<\/p>\n 14. You couldn\u2019t picture your life without them<\/strong><\/p>\n What would you do? How would you act on a date with someone else? Would anyone else like doing the weird stuff you two do? Would anyone else allow you to eat cheeseburgers in bed at 3am and wipe your greasy hands on them? Probably not. And you\u2019d have to go through the whole Meeting Weird Great Aunt Sheila rigmarole again. It\u2019s just not worth the hassle. You\u2019re gonna stick with this one.<\/p>\n 15. They love you for you<\/strong><\/p>\n Rich, poor, short, tall \u2013 you love each other for exactly who you are and that\u2019s it. Nothing else matters when you\u2019re together and you honestly could not picture your life without this person. You want to be with them forever, mainly because you\u2019re deeply in love with them, but also because you share their Netflix account and it\u2019s working out to be extremely cost effective.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n Source: The Trent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We grew up watching fairy tales and gushy rom-coms, with the strong belief that The One was right around the corner, and we would\u00a0meet them on a bridge overlooking a river at sunset, or bump into them head on in the street. 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