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To think 25 is too late to find the LOML

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BetterOffDeadWillNeverFindAMan · 25/09/2024 13:41

I met the love of my life, but he moved away to Australia for a great job and found a wife a few years later. I know that if he hadn't moved, we would still be together and be married with kids. He is what I would describe as a 'high value' man: employed, beautiful, 6', kind, good with kids, funny, athletic, loyal, wrote me poems, passionate, romantic, domestic, did all housework. I am green with envy towards his wife.

It seems like even the least desirable men in society still discard me after a few weeks. I mean men who are unemployed, ugly, hate children, short, mean, minimum wage, addicted to porn and or video games, abusive, broke etc.

Why is it that I was able to attract one high value man in my entire life who became absolutely psychotically crazily madly in love with me but can't even seem to find anyone with more than two of the same aforementioned traits?

I'm told (mainly by friends mothers I admit) that I am an 'attractive' woman. I have friends, my own house, an Oxford education and a good job and I normally try to suppress my neediness and fragility in relationships but it seems to always bubble to the surface despite how hard I try to mask it. I end up feeling used and discarded. I am utterly miserable and my mother and sister have no issues finding or maintaining a man.

I'm pitiful and the humiliation of being disposed of so frequently is driving me to some very dark thoughts.

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VickyEadieofThigh · 25/09/2024 17:22

BetterOffDeadWillNeverFindAMan · 25/09/2024 17:17

Yes I'm sure. Many have said here that he wasn't the love of my life because he moved to australia. The salary he was offered there is $150,000 per year compared to £30k for the same job in the UK, so he didn't have much choice. Additionally, I wasn't able to get citizenship there.

Nobody tries to get "citizenship" before moving to Australia - first of all, you try to get a work visa. I'm very surprised a high value person like you with your Oxford degree didn't get one of those. Why didn't My LOML marry you and take you with him as his spouse?

And how many years ago was this, exactly? Of youreonly 25 now?

PepaWepa · 25/09/2024 17:21

BetterOffDeadWillNeverFindAMan · 25/09/2024 17:20

Erm, no he chose not being in poverty and good weather over poverty and misery.

You sound a bit deluded tbh. Stop trying to convince yourself he's the love of your life. He's married with kids in another country.

Forget about him and you'll have an easier time moving on.

BetterOffDeadWillNeverFindAMan · 25/09/2024 17:20

PepaWepa · 25/09/2024 17:19

So he chose money over you.

Forget about him.

Erm, no he chose not being in poverty and good weather over poverty and misery.

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PepaWepa · 25/09/2024 17:19

BetterOffDeadWillNeverFindAMan · 25/09/2024 17:17

Yes I'm sure. Many have said here that he wasn't the love of my life because he moved to australia. The salary he was offered there is $150,000 per year compared to £30k for the same job in the UK, so he didn't have much choice. Additionally, I wasn't able to get citizenship there.

So he chose money over you.

Forget about him.

BetterOffDeadWillNeverFindAMan · 25/09/2024 17:17

PepaWepa · 25/09/2024 17:16

"absolutely psychotically crazily madly in love with me"
And yet so perfect.

Are you sure he wasn't love bombing?

Yes I'm sure. Many have said here that he wasn't the love of my life because he moved to australia. The salary he was offered there is $150,000 per year compared to £30k for the same job in the UK, so he didn't have much choice. Additionally, I wasn't able to get citizenship there.

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PepaWepa · 25/09/2024 17:16

"absolutely psychotically crazily madly in love with me"
And yet so perfect.

Are you sure he wasn't love bombing?

BetterOffDeadWillNeverFindAMan · 25/09/2024 17:13

GiddyRobin · 25/09/2024 17:12

Oh, OP, you're right. At 25 you are totally past your prime. Your hysterical womb is now shrivelling, your ankles only fit to be seen by the help, and I don't think your dowry would be enough to entice any man of high value at all.

My advice to you is as follows: a laudanum prescription to ease the pain of your heartbreak. Copy out the love letters of your travelling man, lest your tears smudge the ink and you lose the words to time. Refrain from the urge to send poison pen letters to his new wife. At least two weeks in the country to help your constitution.

that was really cruel

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GiddyRobin · 25/09/2024 17:12

Oh, OP, you're right. At 25 you are totally past your prime. Your hysterical womb is now shrivelling, your ankles only fit to be seen by the help, and I don't think your dowry would be enough to entice any man of high value at all.

My advice to you is as follows: a laudanum prescription to ease the pain of your heartbreak. Copy out the love letters of your travelling man, lest your tears smudge the ink and you lose the words to time. Refrain from the urge to send poison pen letters to his new wife. At least two weeks in the country to help your constitution.

GlitchStitch · 25/09/2024 17:07

DoreenonTill8 · 25/09/2024 13:56

Showing my age, but I've now got London Boys 'Requiem' in my head...
"You're the love of my life, my life, my life
And I won't let you go now
This is a requiem for love
Our love, our love is a miracle now, oh
Like a thief in the night, the night, the night
I was begging for love
This is a requiem for-
Life has set me free, taking a chance on you and me
This is the story now
The story of our love"

Thank you for reminding me of this excellent song!

Beastiesandthebeauty · 25/09/2024 14:32

Ohoh other post taken down ? 🤔

angellinaballerina7 · 25/09/2024 14:32

But why are you dating unemployed child haters if you consider them beneath you low value?

what’s for you won’t go by you, this man went to Australia and wasn’t for you.

RRBB1920 · 25/09/2024 14:31

Well I didn't meet my daughter's father until I was 35. Perhaps it's not an age thing but the vibes people give off?

Peonies12 · 25/09/2024 14:31

"high value man" - jesus christ... You need to change your attitude if you want to meet someone! Be happy on your own first, don't expect a relationship to make you happy entirely. There's not such thing as 'soulmates' or love of your life. You make a commitment to the right person at the right time, and chose them every day.

NQOCDarling · 25/09/2024 14:31

You've answered your question in your post
You've damned every bloke on the planet because ond buggered off to Oz and found someone else. Why did he move without you/ why didn't you go with him if he was so fabulous.
Get. A . Cat

mn29 · 25/09/2024 14:30

High value? Gross. Been listening to much Andrew Tate et al have you?

On the off-chance you're genuine, no it's not too late. One of my best friends met the 'love of her life' (having previously enjoyed a couple of good, but ultimately not right, long-term relationships) at age 39. Married at 41, baby at 42. They're perfect for each other.

Katielovesteatime · 25/09/2024 14:30

Also it sounds like you’re obsessed with your married ex, which also probably doesn’t attract people.

Katielovesteatime · 25/09/2024 14:29

Putting propel into categories like ‘high value’ and ‘low value’ is really shallow, judge mental and cruel. It might be why you’re losing people so fast, if this judgement and attitude is being picked up on!

BrokenSushiLook · 25/09/2024 14:29

Don't be ridiculous. you're only just an adult and you have many decades ahead of you. The people we think were "the love of my life" in our early 20s often turn out to be total losers a decade later if they still have a teenage mentality and you have managed to grow up. The fact that he moved to Australia and left you proves he wasn't actually right for you. People find love in their 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s because there's no such thing as a single soul-mate. You can certainly reduce the chances of finding someone by being obsessive though. Get out there and enjoy being 25 - you have so much power and beauty and potential right now, you don't even need a long term relationship just now but the right one will come along when you least expect it if you aren't focused on finding it.

Before you give your heart away to anyone new take time to properly work out if they are actually worthy of that love. Mumsnet is full of the stories of woe from those who didn't do this, or who let their hormone drive overrule the common sense that would have identified if someone was actually going to be a good partner long-term.

soberholic · 25/09/2024 14:29

Having a slow day today OP? A few threads around

OCDmama · 25/09/2024 14:29

Troll post from a neckbeard.

HMW1906 · 25/09/2024 14:28

I met my husband when I was nearly 30, we got married when I was 33 and had our first chimd
when I was 35 and second at 37. 25 is definitely not too late. If he didn’t stay in the U.K. for you and you didn’t move todays for him then he obviously wasn’t ‘the one’ xx

DinaofCloud9 · 25/09/2024 14:27

How shallow you sound.

Newposter180 · 25/09/2024 14:26

BetterOffDeadWillNeverFindAMan · 25/09/2024 13:51

These are fairly standard things, no?

Don’t you find it odd that you haven’t listed one personality-based trait here, like being kind or funny? People don’t get married to degrees.

Clearinguptheclutter · 25/09/2024 14:25

Dhdidndnddn · 25/09/2024 14:24

I don’t know about you but it is laughable now (after meeting my husband) that I thought the ex I wanted to marry was marriage material 😂

Totally!!!

Dhdidndnddn · 25/09/2024 14:24

Clearinguptheclutter · 25/09/2024 13:43

Yabu!
I met my husband when we were both 30. Turns out that both of us had come out of long term relationships we thought were marriage material but it turned out not to be.

at 25 you’ve got ages

I don’t know about you but it is laughable now (after meeting my husband) that I thought the ex I wanted to marry was marriage material 😂