First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.
Maya Angelou
1. Wed only been seeing each other for two weeks when she got into a really bad car accident. She was in the hospital for a whole weekend, she woke up and barely remembered who I was. So I did something really crazy. I printed off and gave her an envelope full of all our texts and the receipts for the first date. The memories came back to her and I realized I could never lose her.
-Luke
2. I was dating his best friend and we were pretty unhappy, and I was going through my friends texts to see if she had been texting her ex when I saw texts from him, saying that he was in love with me and couldnt help it. I know its messed up because I was with his friend, but in that moment I knew I was stupid, head over heels in love with him too.
-Christina
3. I watched her hold her little brother while he cried because he was too little to understand that their mom was coming back. Shed never looked more beautiful, I felt in that moment that she was the best person Id ever know.
-Chris
4. I went to Philly and saw a mural street art tour where you travel on a train line and all the murals look like they were written by someone trying to tell a train passenger that they love them, its called A Love Letter For You. Every single one felt like it was about him, like listening to a song on a loop.
-Sharanya
5. We were walking my roommates dog and the sun was going down, it was fall. She looked at me just as the brightest ray hit her eyes, which are normally a very standard brown, but in that split second they were the brightest gold, and I just wanted to tell her I was in love.
-Joseph, 24
6. He held my hair back while I vomited all night after blacking out at his birthday party and making a fool of myself. The next morning, he (Continued)
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The next morning, he had breakfast and ibuprofen on deck. If that ain't love, then I dont know what love is.
-Erin, 25
7. I knew I loved her when she was puking in a bin after we got home from drinking, she kept yelling dont look! and I swear I just wanted to kiss her.
Andrew
8. I heard her laugh in the dining hall. It was obnoxious. I could hear it from outside, up the stairs, in the lobby. I had to find the girl with that laugh, I swear I knew that I felt like if I could make her laugh, Id have everything I needed.
-Cody
9. He read a short story out loud in class. I heard his accent and I was hooked, and then his writing moved me to tears, and I was so embarrassed and even more hooked.
-Heather
10. We met online and I was so nervous going to our date. When I sat down, the first thing she said to me was, Oh, thank god, youre not a dude. (Apparently guys use lesbian dating apps to meet girls?) And I just laughed so hard at that. It really broke the ice. I dont know, I think, looking back after 2 years together, I must have known I loved her then.
-Kim
11. I saw him dancing at the bar, like rubbing up against one of my friends, in a really silly way. We were all out together and he was laying it on thick to get my friends to like him. He looked so stupid.
-Jamie
12. "When every love song I listened to seemed like it was about her."
- Anonymous
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13. I knew I loved him when I asked him for a cigarette outside of a bar and he took out a pack of Marlboro reds, my brand.
-Kate
14. I knew I was in love the first time I saw him cry in front of me. We were in a long distance relationship, I was dropping him off at the airport after our first week together. We had spent short times together on either side of the country, but this was the first time we had spent a significant period of time together. It was raining outside and I noticed his eyes well up as I pulled up near the airport. We embraced and it took everything I had to let go. I knew leaving me was so hard for him because he hadnt cried in years; hes not the type to be vulnerable. I wanted to make sure we never had to say goodbye like that again. Its been 4 years and theres no longer a 5 hour plane ride separating us, every time I look at him I feel just as loved as I did in that moment.
-Melissa
15. My boyfriend and I had been together about 3 months when I realized I loved him. It hit me out of nowhere, actually. I really wasnt sure if him and I were going to get to that point. One night, we were driving back to his apartment and we got off the freeway and there was this young woman crying frantically on the side of the road and so he told me to pull over and he jumped out of the car and helped this woman, who had apparently lost her cat. He got back in the car after that and I looked at him like he was a completely different person. Yeah, that was 5 years ago. Still in love.
-Rose
16. She followed me into the bathroom at the bar just to make out with me. How could I not fall in love with her?
-Owen
17. He met my parents and I hadnt come out (as gay) yet. He was angry with me for not having come out and I thought the meeting would go horribly wrong. When my parents asked him how he knew me, he immediately answered by saying (Continued)
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Im his girlfriends best friend! They loved him. I came out the next day.
-Sam
18. He fell on his butt in front of me and huge group of people, it was snowing. I went to help him up and he pulled me down with him and said its not so bad down here with a pretty girl. So cheesy, so perfect.
-Sarah
19. I know this is the cheesiest thing ever and I never thought this kind of stuff happens until it happened to me. I knew I loved her the moment I saw her. It was instant. I was completely mesmerized by her. Then, she laughed at something her friend said, and I was like, this is it for me. I need to know this woman immediately. Thankfully, she fell in love with me, too.
-Kwesi
20. Woke up from a dream where she didnt exist, that was the whole dream. Wed only been dating for a few weeks, but I had this dream where I couldnt find her and I woke up sweating. I felt like I knew what love felt like, the feeling that you couldnt possibly lose that person.
-Brendan
21. When we kissed for the first time and she was AWFUL but I wanted to keep kissing her anyway, I knew it was love.
-Kyle
22. Ive been in love before but Im not sure if there was ever a specific moment where I just knew. I think love sort of happens slowly, then all at once. Its like the person is there, theyve always been there, but you start noticing little details about them the way they laugh when they think something is really funny, how they look in the morning when theyre tired and quiet, the small noises they make when theyre getting comfortable all of these things theyve been doing for years they dont even realize they do anymore but are completely unique to them and new to you. Each moment of discovery increases just how endearing you find them until it builds up and builds up and then you have no choice but to blurt out I LOVE YOU! when doing something totally mundane together like shopping for glassware at Target or standing in line at a concert.
-Jeanne
23. "We had just gotten back from a crazy night in the city (a night where I continually turned him down so he tackled me onto the bed and we cuddled all night) I was cleaning my apartment and it got really quiet I said his name, and he said "what?" I asked what he was doing and he said he was (Continued)
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making himself look pretty, (he's a pretty large guy huge arms and hands really burly) he walked out of my room wearing mascara and listening to Taylor Swift. My heart swelled, and kissed him I couldn't help but fall in love with that sweet burly soft hearted man."
-Miriamjamess
24. "We had been dating about a month, and I was home visiting my family for the holidays. We were talking on the phone for about an hour, and he laughed at something I said and replied, "oh my god, I love you." He said it in such a joking way though, and it was early in our relationship, so I pretended I didn't hear, but I realized I was in love. When he picked me up from the airport, I asked him: "Did you mean what you said?" He told me it was a slip of the tongue, but yes, he did. Been together ever since."
-Becca
25. "It was only about a week after we met, and we finally exchanged numbers. The first thing he ever messaged me was "Dork here, reporting for duty" because I had playfully called him a dork a couple times before. I was a goner. I didn't fall in love with him at that moment, but it was definitely the moment where I just KNEW he was special and I had to keep seeing him. That was two years ago and every time I look at him it's like the first time. Seriously."
-bc94
26. "We were young, we had just gotten done sneaking out and having a midnight hike and smoke. We snuck into bed and were just talking and playing with each other's hair and what not. It dawned on me that I've never cared about someone to this extent. 9 years later and still strong."
-opheliaks
27. "Our entire relationship as friends made me realize it. As someone who deals with depression, the more I thought about it, she was the one always there for me. When she was screwed over by a guy she came to me first before any of her girlfriends, and vice-versa when I was done wrong by a girl. One day we got in to a huge fight and we almost completely stopped being friends because of how angry we were at each other, and in those few hours that we spent "not talking to each other ever again" I realized that (Continued)
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I have been hopeless let in love with her, we just passed the two year mark a few days ago! I can't speak on our future because we're both still very young but I can see us making it a long time."
-JoseTheBosse
28. "I don't think there was a incredible or overwhelming moment in which I knew he was the one. For me, I felt peaceful when I was with him. I didn't feel like I had to put on a show or pretend and it was incredibly easy to be drama free. We never fought over stupid stuff and was just easy to be with him. I did the best I could and he made a point to say he appreciated it and I did the same for him. We always had respect for each other and always had open honest communication. And that's how I knew :) now, we continue to do those things for each other and it really helps to get us through the rocky times."
-Fromheretotherewu
29. "We had a big argument. I mean like a cursing-and-calling-pure-raw-emotion argument. And I got really angry. And I realized that even while angry with her, I couldn't imagine life without her. And if I could be that angry with her and still want to have her in my life then it must be meant to be.
It's now over 10 years later and we're coming up on our 10 year anniversary. It hasn't always been easy, but we love and would do anything for each other."
-zortlord
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Dating and the search for love and companionship... What a nightmare.
This journey plays out nothing like in the movies.
Every Prince or Princess (or everything in BTW) seems to have a touch of the psycho.
The things people say during what should be simple dinner conversation can leave a dining partner aghast.
Like... do you hear you?
Redditor detroit_michigldan wanted to discuss all the best ways to crash and burn when trying to make a romantic connection. They asked:
"You're on a date and it's going really great. What can another person say to ruin it completely?"
I once had a guy ask me if I was willing to follow him into the woods, depending on the price of the meal.
Yeah. No steak is worth that.
Plans After...
"Thanks for the ride but I have a date with someone else, I figured you wouldn't drive me if you knew I was going on a date with someone else and I really needed a ride."
"Online dating, talked to her for a while, finally got the courage to ask her out and then she said that as we got there."
iareyours
Mirror Image
“'You look just like my wife!'”
catalinachild
"I did have a guy tell me I reminded him of his son. I don’t believe English has a word to adequately describe my feelings at that time."
UnicornMagicRainbow
"That would definitely do it."
chaotica78
Third Wheel
"'Hope you don't mind if my mother joins us.'"
ofsquire
"Actually had a girl do this on a first date because she had anxiety issues. Honestly wasn’t bad except that 90% of the time she was silent and her mom talked over her."
"I didn’t mind that much and wouldn’t have minded trying again when she was more comfortable except that she was let go at the company we worked at and she deleted her social media profiles and she never responded on her number. Ah well."
Seightx
Liar
"'Hey bro aren't you gay? I made out with you last night.'"
"Random dude I've never seen before in front of my (f) date."
JHXC16
Was he lying though?
Filter Issues
"'You looked better on Tinder.'"
waqasnaseem07
"Isn’t it basic knowledge that everybody looks slightly worse than the worst picture you can find?"
no_user_ID_found
The Past
"'My ex used to do that too.'"
xxIvyOF
"Yep. I’ve definitely had two otherwise-decent-guy date-situations sour because the ex-comparisons just would not stop flowing. No woman wants to be seen as interchangeable—I’m not here to perfectly fill that ex-sized hole in your life. Focusing on the present moment and a future we could build together is a courtesy we need to grant each other in earliest dates of dating."
LarkScarlett
Powerless
"'I'm an alpha, you cant handle my top energy.'"
Midnightgay28
"I actually left a dude in the middle of dinner, in part, for saying this. I ordered an Uber under the table while pretending to listen to him. Went to the bathroom, and never came back. That was when I was young. Now I’d just say, 'How about we enjoy this meal in silence, before we head our separate ways.'”
UnicornMagicRainbow
Mommy...
"'Mother says I should be back by 9.'"
"Saying 'mother says' just feels weird."
bunnyrut
"That gives me Norman Bates vibes."
Werewolf_lover20
"'Mother says alligators are aggressive because they have an overabundance of teeth, but lack a toothbrush.'"
sodaextraiceplease
Obvs...
"'If you were going to be murdered, what method would you prefer. Purely hypothetical. Obvs.'"
Specific_Tap7296
If it looks anything like a Dateline NBC episode... RUN!
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Despite the advancement of technology rendering people left to their own devices–literally–to entertain them, there are some leisurely activities that will never go out of style.
Or so you would think.
Do people still knit to pass the time? Are people actively collecting stamps?
It depends on who's asking.
Curious to hear about hobby trends, Redditor gizehgizeh asked:
"What are once popular hobbies that are slowly dying these days?"

Before we've become conditioned to living on our phones, these activities used to keep people occupied.
Before Texting, There Was This
"Letter writing."
– littlekingMT
Literal And Tangible Joy
"Well the internet killed pen pals for sure. I do remember I had a Japanese girl for a penpal maybe back in 2007 or so. I honestly don't remember how it started, pretty sure some website, but that was a fun experience. But now I can just straight up talk to foreign people real time, lol. But yea getting a physical letter that someone took the time to write and mail still is hard to beat feelings wise."
– skyburnsred
Model Trains
"When I was growing up, every town had a model train store in it. Now I have one in region and everything else has to be bought online."
– Hairy_Effective1172
Pretty Rocks
"Don’t see anyone playing marbles anymore, I had an awesome collection in school."
– sheeple85
"I had some marbles as a kid in the 90s. My grandma got them for me and I had no idea what I was supposed to do with them. I always imagined them as a thing kids in the 40s played with."
– Ryoukugan
People Were Moving Canvases
"Paintball has been dying a slow death since 2006. Sad, really."
– hobo_recycler
Before the general population began hating clutter, collecting was once a "thing."
Precious Coins
"Coin collecting... I'm a silver/gold nut and I'm always hunting for precious metal coins. whenever I go into a shop they get all excited because 'no one under 70 collects coins anymore.'"
– ThatFishySmell99
Post It
"Stamp collecting."
– spooky_scully_mulder
"Collecting in general, really. Of course there are still prominent collectors but it's slipped more into enthusiast and niche territory than being a popular hobby that you might expect anyone to have."
– iuytrefdgh436yujhe2
What A Gem
"Rockhounding was immensely popular back in the 1950's and 1960's. Personally, I think it's a fascinating and fulfilling hobby, but when I go to a meeting at a rock and gem club, I'm usually the youngest one in the room by several decades."
– filthy_lucre
People once enjoyed making things.
Admiring The View
"Stained glass. I learned how to make it from my old man, and my junior high art class teacher also taught it. Very few artisans are still around."
– brobeanzhitler
Metal Vocation
"Black smithing."
– kenworth117
"I bought a forge to try. It’s insanely hard work, and crazy expensive. I still haven’t finished a piece."
– DSentvalue
Scrapbooking
"Yeah. I'm watching the arts and crafts stores around me completely uninstalling their racks for specialty paper. Now the only thing they have is mega packs of repeating colors/images. To boot all the inclusions like papercraft/die-cut things, washi tape, scissors, stickers, etc have gotten so expensive I would rather go buy $5 bags at value village to get an assortment of things versus buying anything new. I really, really miss yard sales for the same reasons."
– Phantasmai
I envy people who have jobs that are basically their hobbies.
Not everyone gets paid doing what they actually enjoy and have a profound level of passion for.
If they do, kudos to them.
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When we first meet someone–whether through mutual friends, at school, or in a new work setting–we generally feel people out to determine if they're worth getting to know.
While the process could take time, some people make our jobs much easier after spotting instant red flags.
Curious to hear about our general radar of people, Redditor xxFluffie asked:
"What is something that makes you immediately dislike someone?"

Some people just think they are absolutely hilarious and never realize they're the only ones laughing.
Next In Line
"They laugh about having screwed someone else over. If you think you're not next, well, you'll learn."
– whiznat
Unfunny
"when you mention you don't like a thing and they immediately do that thing 'as a joke.'"
– wayfinder
Playing Devil's Advocate
"Kneejerk contrarians. People who, no matter what you say you like or believe, just have to dismiss it and say they like or think the opposite."
– BubbhaJebus
People who put others down get slammed here.
Bad Parents
"When they treat their kids sh**ty in public. I don't mean handling tantrums, setting a rule, having to hurry to the train etc. I mean perfectly normal-behaved kids getting in trouble for trailing along peacefully, looking at things, asking questions etc."
"If you don't like tiny humans who learn the world, why have them??"
– raxeira-etterath
Public Humiliation
"Treating people sh**ty in public for laughs. Like being rude to service workers because they think it’s funny. Big red flag."
– Ok_Personality_1080
Simply Uncalled For
"Someone who is a d*ck to other people or animals for no reason."
– xebt1000
Those with ulterior motives rubs people the wrong way.
The Scheme
"If they try to get me to join their MLM scheme."
– spazmcgee1
Hard Sell
"A guy I used to be friends with in high school reached out a couple of years after graduating about a business opportunity he wanted my opinion on because 'you've always been smart', then he set up a Skype call and brought some other dude into the call and they started trying to sell me on what was clearly an MLM scheme. The guy went from friend to 'I'm never talking to you again' in a matter of 10 minutes."
– Mental-Afternoon-164
A Timeline
"Good gawd, this! I've had more than one exposure to this abject bullsh**tery..."
- Back in the late 80's/early 90's I was invited to a meeting of literally the OG "Pyramid" where you're recruited to pay in, and then you go out and recruit others to pay in, and the last in line got f'kall.
- In 1995 I had a coworker try to reel me into Amway, which was a hard no.
- In 2000 it was Pampered Chef, though to be fair they did have useful products.
- In 2009 a coworker tried to get me into some stupid video calling service that was obviously stupid from the description. He even got offended when I called bullsh*t.
– Mystical_Cat
Too much ego is a no-go.
I Can Do Better
"Being a b*tch just to stroke their own ego."
"We get it, you can lift 5lbs more than the 12 year old, you don't have to rub it in their face just because you're slightly better"
– Livia_Pivia
Can't Top This
"Oh, you did <story that's been told>? That's nothing! I did <implausible story>.
"I get the whole empathy through relating common experience, and I'm someone who does that (which drives some people crazy on its own), but there's a big different by empathising through common experience, and one-upmanship."
– Tisarwat
Lacking Conversational Etiquette
"Starting to talk over me when I was already talking."
"Stop it you rude, arrogant jerk."
– R33Gtst
If one or more of these traits sound familiar to you, you're not alone.
We don't have time for braggadocios, pyramid-schemers, and conversation interrupters.
And that's just for starters.
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Children tend to believe just about anything they hear.
That there are monsters under your bed, watching too much TV will make your head explode, and silly faces will be permanent if you make them too often.
The sky is truly the limit when it comes to silly things that children will believe.
Some call it naivitée, other's youthful innocence.
But it's hard not to look back with embarrassment on certain things we believed as a child, that today might simply seem dumb.
Redditor Disastrous_Toe_6548 was curious to learn the multitude of silly things people believed when they were children, leading them to ask:
"What's the dumbest thing you believed as a kid?"
Pleading to deaf ears...
"My dad told me he had hearing loss and couldn't hear me if I whined because my pitch would get too high."
"Would completely ignore me until I asked him questions in a normal voice."
"Trusted him implicitly until I was 12 and he yelled at my younger brother for whining."- Tyrion_Stark.
Get it while you can.
"That they took everything off the shelves when the supermarket closed."- fgyfddg.
Silly superstitions.
"My grandfather used to tell me that if I played with the fire, I'd pee the bed."
"I believed him for a while, until I got older."
"I think he was just trying to protect me from the fire."- teddypa1981.
"Rain, rain go away..."
"That if it was raining where I was, it was raining everywhere in the world."- morningshartz.
Age is just a number.
"My parents used to seem really old to me, so much so I believed they grew up like cave people as children, wearing giant leaves for clothes and what not."- Laleena_.
So that's how they're made!
"That smokestacks from the power plant created clouds."- Scaniarix.
An instant cure.
"The sun gives you sunburns, therefore, moonlight should heal them."- velocipeter.
Better safe than sorry.
"Don't drink and drive meant all drinks."
"My dad was super confused when I told him he wasn't allowed to have any soda until we got home."- hulagirlslovetoparty.
Don't believe everything you see on TV.
"There was an episode of Mickey Mouse where Mickey couldn’t reach something at first, so he tried again and somehow his arm was long enough to reach it."
"As a small kid I believed that if I couldn’t reach something, I should just try reaching for it again and my arm would then somehow be long enough to reach it."- That-Dutch-Person.
The miracle of childbirth.
"That babies are pooped out."
"When I was like 7 I was listening to my aunt as she explained that childbirth was pretty intense and painful for her, and I was all solemnly like, 'yeah, sometimes just my poops are painful, I don’t think I could get a baby out' and she went 'um, WHAT?' and her reaction made me realize real quick that I had f*cked up somewhere and I tried to change the subject while my mind was just reeling lol."- thesoundingfurrows.
Oh to be a child again.
And to believe literally everything you're told.
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