When do sheldon and amy start dating

While they technically shared their first kiss way back in season 3 during the same awkward episode in which they met, Sheldon and Amy didn't share a real, romantic, swoonworthy kiss until their train-bound smooch, just in time for Valentine's Day.

It took another two seasons from their first non-cringeworthy kiss for Shamy to finally, as Sheldon would say, engage in coitus. It's yet another season before Sheldon takes his relationship with Amy to the next level.

Despite her attempt to thwart the hopefully endgame couple's relationship, Dr. Ramona Nowitzki kissing Sheldon only pushes him to finally get down on one knee and pop the question Her answer? Well, guess we'll have to wait for season She is familiar with all his habits and his personality quirks that others find rage inducing, she thinks are cute as a button. She is also a scientist and is willing to drive him around town.

Sheldon is uncomfortable with this much increased intimacy with Amy, but can't argue with her logic. Sheldon learns from Penny that she doesn't want Leonard to move in with her. Sheldon finally tells Amy that she can't move in and that it's Penny's fault. After Amy confronts Penny, Penny tells Sheldon he needs to tell Amy he doesn't want to live with her instead of blaming it on Penny.

Amy calls Sheldon a coward, which he agrees with and Amy states that she should move in with Penny to teach Sheldon a lesson. Now Penny is terrified. He rejects Alex's first and second options and she does such a great job with the third option, the signed brain cell print that Sheldon keeps it for himself.

Amy shows up for their dinner plans and decides to cancel Valentine's Day altogether. Sheldon decides to still give Amy her gift for her kind gesture, he shows Amy that she is now his emergency point of contact at the university.

He tells Amy that if he's had a stroke that she would be the one he wanted by his side which almost sends Amy into tears. This action shows her importance to Sheldon, that he trusts her and she hugs him tightly.

In " The Love Spell Potential ", after Amy was upset about the suggestion that their Dungeons and Dragons characters should have sex, as it was not going to happen in real life, Sheldon was sent to comfort her.

Although initially unwilling, he listened to her complain about how the others thought their relationship was a joke. Sheldon responded by saying he didn't think that. Amy asked him if they would ever have an intimate relationship. Sheldon sat down and told her before he met her he wasn't interested in being intimate with anyone. Amy prompted him to see if he felt any differently now, and he admitted it was a possibility between them. This admission didn't really cheer her up, so he explained to her, that although it didn't feel like it to her, to him it did feel really intimate, Amy knew this fact, but said she just wished she could have more.

Sheldon managed to cheer her up, by pointing out that they had only known each other for three years and they were already in bed with each other technically sitting on Sheldon's bed, but either way it shows that he is willing to let her in his bedroom in which no one was allowed to before.

Amy said they should go back to the others, but Sheldon stopped her, and very calmly pointed out that as they had love spell potion put on their characters in the game, it would only be right to carry it on. And so alone in his room, away from all others, he allowed her to experience a form of virtual intimacy, using a dice to decide what to do next. Upon throwing the dice to see where he should stroke erotically she didn't like where the dice had landed, which was the nose.

So her reaction was to roll again. The two were still playing a while later when Leonard and Penny went to check on them. Amy, after getting excited shouted, "Go away, Sheldon's going to nibble on my In " The Deception Verification ", Amy and Sheldon conclude that Penny is cheating on Leonard, so Sheldon decides to rush into Penny's apartment and catch her with the other guy. Amy does not recommend this action, but follows Sheldon anyway.

She is seen with her head touching Sheldon's shoulder. While they are eavesdropping Sheldon says "Now, I think I hear kissing. Leonard tries giving Sheldon a sailor's hat and asks Amy and Penny to complement the hat.

When Sheldon puts it on Amy remarks in a seductive tone "Hello, sailor". Sheldon sees through his friends and he states "This changes nothing, except the Halloween costume I'm wearing this year. Amy you're going to be Olive Oyl, lay off the donuts. When he also vents his anger on Penny, Amy defends her. Sheldon warns her that the girlfriend of my enemy's girlfriend is also my enemy, Amy pulls her offer of a ride and Sheldon claims that there must be a third option or exception for Amy.

He needs the ride since he's mad at Leonard. In " The Raiders Minimization ", Sheldon offers Amy to lose her virginity, but it was only her first viewing of one of his favorite movies, "Raiders of the Lost Ark". She enjoys it, but points out that the plot would still work without the main character. Since she spoiled the movie for him, he tries to find something to spoil that she likes. They start watching her childhood favorite show, "Little House on the Prairie" and he keeps pointing out inaccuracies.

She quickly picks up on what he is doing and tells him that. Since they are in a relationship, he should tell her when he is angry with her. She apologizes, and he accepts it, though he still tells her an error in the comic strip Garfield, showing that he still takes one step backwards.

After Howard's comments how he would not want to work all day near Bernadette, he withdraws his approval, but Amy says she still plans to work there. After embarrassing Amy in front of her co-workers at lunch with inappropriate ethnic comments and talking about the status of their relationship, Amy is extremely unhappy with him. Late at night, he comes to her apartment to apologize and they say to each other that they like each other, quirks and all.

Sheldon then ruins the moment by adding that she should like him because he doesn't see anyone else knocking at her door. Later, Amy tells Penny and Bernadette that she is not apologizing to Sheldon. In " The Romance Resonance ", Sheldon makes a great scientific discovery of a new super heavy element which thrills Sheldon until he realizes he made a bone-headed error in his calculations.

Everyone still praises him, much to his annoyance. Amy first tries to soothe him like everyone else until she finally agrees with him that he shouldn't be proud taking his side in their relationship. Sheldon tells her that that is the most romantic thing he has ever heard which pleases Amy.

Later when it looks like Sheldon is about to actually kiss Amy, Amy comes out of "the zone" and her wishful daydream. Wolowitz's for Thanksgiving; he starts to compare his life to that of a slave.

Amy tells him that that is inappropriate and he responds by saying "Yes, Miss Amy. Afterwards, Sheldon looks at Amy and then says to everyone, "Ain't she great?

Amy, shocked, starts to walk slowly toward the kitchen as a dazed smile appears on her face. Amy looks back at Sheldon, who smiles back wholeheartedly. In " The Cooper Extraction ", Leonard reveals to Amy that Sheldon was using a picture of her as one of his screen savers and that, without Sheldon, Amy would probably be alone singing" Happy Birthday" to herself as she would not have met any of her friends. Also, Sheldon says that he missed her and that he wanted her to be with him in Texas.

They travel on a vintage train and have a romantic dinner together. To make Sheldon more comfortable, Howard and Bernadette will be with them and they will have separate rooms.

After Sheldon tells her that she is manipulating him, Amy admits that she was only looking for romance. Insulted, Sheldon tells her that he will give her romance. To fulfill his list of romantic things, he drinks his wine that he calls grape juice that which burns, stares into her eyes momentarily until she blinks and loses, and then kisses her.

Though it was meant to be quick and sarcastic, Sheldon seems to enjoy it and lingers. He first leans over and then puts his arms around Amy. Amy is too shocked to hug him back. Amy then tells him that it was nice. Sheldon wants to leave to again talk to the conductor.

Amy, still breathless from the kiss, tells him to have a good time. Then Sheldon invites her to go with him. In " The Table Polarization ", the gang wants to add a dining room table to Apartment 4A, which Sheldon objects to, as usual, since he doesn't like changes. Sheldon objects to Penny changing Leonard to stand up against him. Penny points out that Amy has changed Sheldon who agrees and then decides to break up with her.

Amy is alerted and deals with it by agreeing with Sheldon to break up and that Leonard is manipulating him to break up with her though she clearly knows him and is manipulating him. She goes with him supporting his fight against that awful table and is feeding him his lines.

He stops when she includes that he is moving in with his girlfriend. Amy says that she got too cocky. In " The Indecision Amalgamation ", Sheldon is obsessed with his video game system decision and rambles on about his options while having their date night dinner at Amy's apartment. She fakes an interest in his problem after Sheldon thinks she isn't paying him enough attention.

Finally she screams at him, "Please pass the butter! At the end of date night, Amy reminds Sheldon, "It's date night. Aren't you forgetting something? Still mulling over his decision at Best Buy later, Amy almost falls asleep on his shoulder and later consoles him after he is unable to buy either system due to the registers closing, and is unable to decide what food to eat for dinner.

In " The Relationship Diremption ", Sheldon gives up on String Theory given his disappointment over any breakthroughs in the field. Later as part of Sheldon's following of Cosmo's advice on how to deal with a break up involving a new look, Penny styles Sheldon's hair on his request. Amy, upon seeing Sheldon is taken aback, and comments that she doesn't want him, "walking around like sex on a stick", before he agrees, "She's right.

I'm too hot. The following morning, Sheldon wakes up shirtless, before glancing at his side gasping, "Oh no. What have I done? In " The Anything Can Happen Thursday Recurrence ", Amy lies to Sheldon about going to dinner with Bernadette and then makes it up to him by showing up at his apartment in a Catholic school uniform, the same way Bernadette makes up with Howard. Penny takes Sheldon to a psychic to work on his career issues and the psychic tells Sheldon that all his issues personally and professionally will be solved if he commits completely to Amy which makes Sheldon angry, though he starts to wonder if the psychic's advice is correct while he subtly acts unimpressed when Amy shows up at his door in a Catholic Schoolgirl outfit.

In " The Status Quo Combustion ", Sheldon is horrified by the university telling him he can't change his field of study, Leonard's comment that he doesn't want Sheldon to live with him and Penny and the comic book store fire. Amy tells him that living alone might be good for him and if that doesn't work, he could move in with her.

Pushing him even further, Sheldon yells at her sarcastically that they should get married, have. Talking over his troubles with Stuart, Sheldon even admits that Amy loves him. He leaves her place and decides to leave town to think things over without telling Amy. The next day, he calls Amy and she thinks he sounds like he's doing fine. Penny and Leonard assure her that it's for the best, and then Amy gets angry and starts hitting Leonard with a pillow telling him that he should not have let Sheldon go.

In " The Locomotion Interruption ", Sheldon has traveled around the US for 45 days winding up in Kingman, Arizona after all his possessions and his pants had been stolen.

He calls Leonard to come and get him. Amy comes along very upset about having not been called by Sheldon and about him never having told her goodbye before he left. Sheldon did not want Amy to know that he had failed in his journey and that she would think less of him, which touched Amy. She told him that it is OK with her that he is not perfect. Still unhappy about his unsuccessful trip, Amy tells him to consider that it was an adventure, which Sheldon accepts. He now feels confident to take on any changes in his life until he finds out that Penny cut her hair.

Amy can be seen smiling that Sheldon does worry about how she feels about him. In " The First Pitch Insufficiency ", Shamy and Lenny go on a double-date where Sheldon is bragging about their relationship is so much better than theirs.

Shamy has an 8. Amy is really enjoying Sheldon comments about how great their relationship is to the point that if she was wearing flag underwear that it would be on fire. In " The Hook-up Reverberation ", Raj tells the gang that Stuart didn't get enough insurance money to reopen his store. The guys decide to give him the money and were enthusiastic about owning a comic book store.

Sheldon talks to Amy saying that he is very excited about this project and if she isn't also excited, it could throw their relationship into jeopardy. Amy asks Sheldon, a grown man and an accomplished scientist, would be wasting his time and intellect on a store that sells picture books of men flying around in their underwear.

Sheldon says "no" so Amy agrees that it is a great idea. In " The Prom Equivalency ", Sheldon is worried after hearing from both Penny and Leonard that the social convention after prom is to have sex with your date. After seeing Amy in her prom dress, Sheldon runs off distressed. Later, Amy comes into Sheldon's room and Sheldon tells Amy about his concerns. Amy gets up to leave saying she doesn't want to miss yet another prom and Sheldon stops her telling her that he really did think she looked pretty.

Amy tells Sheldon that it is okay and he didn't have to spend the night with her unless he wanted to she'll always want to and that she just wanted to have a nice time at the prom. She goes on to say that she wants to tell him something and that it was okay if Sheldon didn't feel the same way.

Sheldon responds by saying, "I love you too," shocking Amy. Sheldon further confesses his love saying that there is no other way to describe his feelings for her though he briefly considered it was a brain parasite. The episode ends with the happy couple taking a picture at the prom photo booth together both looking happy. She also kissed him under the mistletoe when they were Christmas tree shopping. Sheldon plots revenge against her to make her feel as miserable as he does and hopefully she will never make him celebrate Christmas again.

Since they agreed to not exchange gifts, he felt that if he got her the perfect gift, it would make her miserable. He gets his picture taken with Santa Claus and has it enclosed in a picture frame which includes a tender recorded Christmas greeting to Amy. Amy loves it and gives him a gift of some Christmas cookies that his Meemaw used to make. Sheldon is touched and wonders if Christmas isn't about giving until Raj reaches for one of his cookies.

Sheldon admits to Bernadette that he loves Amy and Amy admits her love for Sheldon in front of everyone. In " The Comic Book Store Regeneration ", Amy develops her own ideas on string theory and discusses them with Barry Kripke , who publishes a paper using her idea with great success. Sheldon is angry because she helped a rival and never helped him when he was working on string theory.

Amy felt she was helping a fellow scientist. Sheldon deflects his anger by telling Penny and Leonard that Amy was doing experiments on them and comparing their results to her chimps and making them mad at Amy. Later, when Penny confronts Amy who was about to see Sheldon for her actions, Sheldon opens the door just in time to see this, and immediately closes it.

Sheldon claims to be naked and can't open the door. When he does, Amy gets a good glimpse at him while Penny angrily says "Pull up your pants! In " The Colonization Application ", Sheldon and Amy decide to take their relationship to the next level, to buy a pet together - a turtle.

While picking one out Sheldon reveals that he has put in an application to be one of the first colonists on Mars. Amy is hurt that he didn't consult first with her since she thought they were planning their future together on the same planet. Sheldon then asks Amy to join him on his journey to Mars. They start thinking about raising a family and that their kids will be Martians.

Sheldon likes that idea about having kids with neat Martian names. He runs in being chased by the Daleks, tells Amy to set the time circuits and then runs out to retrieve his forgotten sonic screw driver. Amy felt she should have had a better plan. In " The Fortification Implementation ", Amy and Sheldon finally spend the night together, though only as a sleepover in a fort that they built together. When their date night ended at ten o'clock, Sheldon was having such a good time that he wanted Amy to extend the parameters of date night.

After negotiating a G-rated sleepover within the fort, Amy produced a sleepover kit complete with pajamas and toothbrush that she hid under a couch cushion two years previously this kit was just one of the few in the apartment. Amy stops him thinking that he should be concentrating more on her. Sheldon thinks he is since he truly wants to know her opinion about the show. For a couple of days, he doesn't hear from Amy. Calling her, Amy is totally exhausted physically and emotionally from being his girlfriend, so she wants to take a break and think about their relationship.

Surprised and shocked, Sheldon reluctantly agrees and doesn't know what to do with the engagement ring he has for her. In " The Matrimonial Momentum ", after watching Leonard and Penny finally tie the knot, Sheldon asks Amy outright if they are broken up. She tells him that he hasn't given her enough space to think. He points out to hurry since her eggs have a sell-by date.

Insulted and angry, Amy breaks up with him, calling him selfish and immature. She leaves the room and causes the gang to miss the rest of the wedding and leaving only Howard and Stuart. Sheldon is devastated and later calls his mother asking her what he should do with the engagement ring.

Mary advised him to hold on to it in case he and Amy work things out. In " The Separation Oscillation ", Sheldon appears in front of Amy's apartment to return her belongings. She pulls out a scarf reminding them the time they went ice skating, then someone else's red bra put in there by Sheldon to make her jealous.

After that, he records a new episode of " Fun with Flags " which described countries that have broken up making allusions to their breakup. He also sends the link to Amy with a headline: "Watch. This will make you mad". Amy goes straight to his apartment and demands him to take it down.

Sheldon thinks she still has feelings with him because she watched the video, then happily skips down the hall. In " The Bachelor Party Corrosion ", Penny and Bernadette discovered that she has not changed her Facebook relationship status to single and they told her to call her mom to report her and Sheldon's breakup. In " The Approximation ", Sheldon asks Amy to become his roommate to replace Leonard who moved in with his wife. She declines; however, she does defend Sheldon when Bernadette calls him a weirdo.

Amy still finds him brilliant and insightful. Sheldon is told by the guys that he should trying dating to help move on so he asks the first two women he sees in the sports bar. The blonde doesn't understand his geeky cultural references and the other is her grandmother. The third women reminds him of Emily and looks too much like a clown. Sheldon and Amy awkwardly meet on the stairs and exchange their dating stories.

Amy is shocked when she learns that Sheldon is asking women out to help him move on. Sheldon says good bye leaving Amy shocked and hurt. In the middle of the interview, he brought out the engagement ring he was about to give to Amy surprising everyone. Sheldon afterwards was angry because Penny told that he had emotions about being broken up with Amy and he denied that.

Then, he decided to go to Amy's to ask her to marry him. The episode closed with Amy kissing a date guest-starring Stephen Merchant which Sheldon witnessed, leaving him devastated.

Amy's dating history: "I have had six dates with three different people. It was either for dinner or coffee. One I met at a bookstore and two I met online.

At end of it, Amy asks Sheldon if she can be his girlfriend again, but he gently declines, telling her he excels at many things, but getting over her isn't one of them, leaving Amy devastated.

In " The Earworm Reverberation ", Sheldon has a song stuck in his head which is driving him crazy. Amy decides to try another date with Dave.

After Sheldon realizes the significance of the song "Darlin" by the Beach Boys and its connection to his feelings for Amy and how she has softened him, he heads over to her apartment. Just as Amy and Dave are about to kiss, Sheldon interrupts. Amy excuses herself and Dave gets excited about meeting him. Amy answers the door and tells Sheldon that it's not a good time. Amy tells him she loves him too. Dave excitedly tells them to kiss, which they do passionately.

Dave excuses himself as he leaves and Shamy continues to kiss. Amy learns from the girls that he is planning on being physical with her. She rushes off for a bikini wax. That night Sheldon meets her in her apartment with flowers, but without the balloon that got away. Amy isn't very hungry and wants to get to her presents first. She tells Sheldon that she knows what it is and Sheldon is fine that. In her bedroom, Sheldon notices that Amy is visibly shaking - she admits that although she's wanted this for a long time, she's nervous.

Sheldon is also not sure what to expect and gently assures her that they'll figure it out together. They lean in and share a tender kiss. A few hours later, both are lying in bed naked with satisfied smiles on their faces. Both enjoyed the experience much more than they thought they would. Sheldon plans on doing it again on her birthday next year which is fine with Amy.

She thinks that it is a romantic gesture and loves it. Sheldon is reluctant to stand up for Amy in front of his beloved grandmother. He finally does, though, obviously, at the urging of Penny. Amy learns about the engagement ring he got from his Meemaw. After getting over the shock, she hints to Sheldon about when is she going to get it. Sheldon blows up and tells her to slow down since he has just given her his virginity. In " The Valentino Submergence ", Sheldon adds Amy's name to the "Fun with Flags" show as a Valentine's Day present and because she has become so much a part of his life.

The live show falls apart since Raj and Kripke call in to advice on their love lives. Sheldon finally joins in and talks about the pain he had during his breakup with Amy. He feels because of it, their relationship is even stronger.

In " The Celebration Experimentation ", Amy wants to throw him a birthday party because of the wonderful birthday he gave her. Sheldon agrees, but says that she owes him big. Helping him prepare for the party, she tells him that he looks nice in his suit, but maybe later she can see him in his "birthday suit".

Sheldon thinks that he is wearing his birthday suit. No sex tonight. At the party Amy toasts Sheldon that it is traditional that the birthday boy get the presents, but her greatest present ever was the day he was born.

Also she and Leonard argue who should go talk to him after Sheldon runs into the bathroom. Penny goes in to do it.

Sheldon never drank milk past the expiration date. Amy never cancelled a dentist appointment. Sheldon never put his foot in the ocean.

Amy never honked just because she liked something. Sheldon never played or even touched a Frisbee. Amy never put salt on her food before at least tasting it. They both agreed on all these topics showing how much they are alike. Then Sheldon never pushed all the buttons in an elevator. Amy takes a drink with a devilish look on her face. Sheldon's jaw drops, scandalized. Instead of bringing the old laptop to the computer store to get credit for it, Sheldon decides to keep it.

When asked why, he has Amy take him to his storage unit, where she discovers the truth about his hoarding addiction. He then explains that he is unable to throw any of his old belongings away, and that he's too ashamed of it to do something about it. However, Amy explains that she doesn't think less of Sheldon after seeing this, and properly thanks him for admitting such a big secret to her. With Amy's help, Sheldon then throws out one of the things he's been keeping: a golf ball his brother threw at his head though he secretly slips the ball back in the storage unit.

Afterwards, Sheldon skypes Amy using his new laptop, amazed at the resolution and graphics that come with it. In " The Line Substitution Solution ", Stuart learns about people doing favors and errands for others in exchange for money, and is interested in doing so to make up for the low revenue for his comic book store.

Sheldon hires Stuart to go shopping with Amy since he doesn't want to, but Amy pays Stuart to yell at Sheldon in response. Stuart has failed attempt to apologize to Amy for Sheldon with flowers. Amy tells Bernadette that she'll give her five dollars to slam the door in Stuart's face.

Sheldon decides to apologize himself quickly while having a cab waiting downstairs. HE apologizes, but still feels that it's nonsense. In " The Cohabitation Experimentation ", they finally move in together as a part of a five-week experiment suggested by Amy after a plumbing accident renders her apartment uninhabitable. Will Mayim still be a regular? Without a doubt, absolutely yes. Mayim, on a personal level, had some family things she needed to take care of.

That was the only reason she was light in those episodes. This breakup is a huge change. Clearly he cares about her; but they may not be on the same page right now.

In those final moments, that is not at all what he thought he was going to hear. I think worried in a good way. They talked about what kind of a formal wedding they envisioned before they eloped. Could this be the latest speed bump for them getting to a more formal altar?

Where do they go from here? This season is all about the engagement and the wedding, as it starts with Amy accepting Sheldon's proposal, and ends with their wedding day. Of course, the engagement and the wedding are truly unique, and definitely fit the two of them!

It's an incredible season for the two, though, especially because they are both so wholeheartedly happy to be marrying each other - and to be working together, too. In the season 11 finale, Sheldon and Amy are distracted on their wedding day thanks to a breakthrough with the project they are working on together - and this season sees them publish a paper, deal with people attempting to steal credit, winning a Nobel Prize, and on top of it all, figuring out how to be married to each other.

In the end, though, it's clear that Sheldon and Amy are pretty perfect for each other, and they couldn't be a cuter couple. Rose Graceling-Moore has been writing about film, TV and comics since , when she began writing for a local print magazine in Vancouver, BC. Since then, Rose has written for Horror Honeys, Moviepilot and Quirkbooks as well as Screenrant, increasingly focusing on comic books and live-action comic adaptations, as well as diversity and representation on screen.

Rose also co-hosted the DC Movies Podcast, and has guested on other nerd and entertainment podcasts over the past five years. You can follow her on Twitter: RoseMooreWrites for tweets about comics, movies, and more.

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