To ask if you love your partner more than you love your parents?

It will depend on your parents surely. The love will be different because its a different kind but the love for your parents will be unlikely to be trumped by your partner if you had good parents.

If you had great parents, no one will love you like your parents because it's that unconditional love thing particularly for women - no man will love you like your father if you had a great father.

A partner is someone who has randomly chosen you and you randomly chose - they could have chosen many other women, are likely to have loved at least some other women, and no matter how devoted you think they are to you, history shows they can leave at any time for a younger model/your best friend/the postman. The same is true for you - a random choice based on luck, who you happened to meet, how you felt at the time, wehther you were in a space for a relationship and so on.

Your mother and father will always be your mother and father and again repeating if you had good, kind, stable, loving parents, that is the kind of love that you cannot get anywhere else. Equally the love you have for those kind of parents runs very deep and is very profound.

No matter how much you think you love your partner, the reality is if he died tomorrow and you are young enough, you would meet someone else different and love again. You can't get new parents in the same way.

It's a joyful thing to come from a loving happy parentage and anyone who has that is very blessed.

Not sure if this counts, both my parents suck. My husband has supported me in such a way that it’s helped me grow as a person way more than being with my parents ever did. I can deffo say I love him more than I ever loved them.

DC
Then DH
Then my siblings
Then parents.

For good reasons.

I would never stop loving my parents.
I absolutely love the core of DH but know relationships don't always last forever and have loved before and it has stopped completely (though 24 years is pretty good!)

I think I love DH and Mum equally. But it depends on an individual’s relationships with both.

For me I chose DH, he chose me - we share a family etc

But I’m really close to my mum and more secure in the idea that nothing could ever get in the way of our relationship whereas marriages sometimes end.

That's a lovely answer and relationship goals

Absolutely I love my partner more. I wouldn't say I even love my parents in the "conventional" way. My family doesn't do any sort of physical or verbal affection or saying I love you etc and has been that way my entire life. I'm not close to my parents the same way other people are. So yes, I love my partner more. And I love my kids more than I love my partner albeit in a different way.

I love my husband a hundred times more than I love my parents but that's because I have an amazing husband versus parents who weren't good parents when I was growing up, but with whom I've made peace

Yes i love my husband more than parents as I am NC with my dad and I often struggle to feel a lot for my mum due to what she put me through as a teenager and her poor attitude towards my average looks.

The people Iove the most are my kids, even though they exhaust me!

I love my children the most
Then husband
Niece
Adult Children's partners
Dog
Dad
Closest Friends
Sister
In-laws
Extended family /friends

Sounds like the plot of King Lear.

😀

It’s a different kind of love. I choose to love my DH and he and my DC are the centre of my world. I make decisions based on what is best for them and our family. I miss them when I’m not with them and can happily spend all day every day with them.

I love my parents but it’s different. I don’t make decisions with them in mind (unless it involves them) and I can only spend so much time with them before I start to get annoyed. That length of time is significantly longer than other people - a couple of weeks as opposed to about 3/4 days for DH’s family and a weekend for friends.

I have parents, siblings, husband and child - It is all different

I didn’t know how to vote. Certainly my partner is my emotional centre, much more so at this stage in
life than my parents. But that doesn’t mean I “love” him “more”. How do you measure love? It’s a different kind of love. All loves are different.

Absolutely I do.
With a partner you are choosing someone to spend your life with, to go to bed with and wake up with. Someone who will hold you when you lose someone else like your parents. Someone who will look out for you if you are in hospital sand help fight battles for you.
Parents are sometimes there to do some of those things, but not all, and nor should they be.
As a parent myself I hope dearly that my children will be able to form relationships which both replace the caring love which they get from me, and grow it with a passion and fire which they need to get elsewhere. When I die then they will feel safe.
This is the circle of life or whatever.
It‘s how it should be.