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To ask what age you met the love of your life

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Tulisaaa · 22/06/2025 09:57

After some inspiration 🤣 just turned 37 and in no rush for a relationship after my 20 year relationship ended a year ago.

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Murfmeister · 24/06/2025 05:47

Aged 48. He is the absolute love of my life. Now I understand what people meant when they talk about finding 'the one'.

boobot1 · 24/06/2025 01:27
iamnotalemon · 24/06/2025 00:23

Still waiting haha

baffledpuzzledandconfused · 24/06/2025 00:10

49

ThisChristmasss · 24/06/2025 00:01

I was 20 & him 21. Happily married, definitely the love of each others lives in every sense of the word. We’re at the end of our 30s.

Jackreacherstrousers · 23/06/2025 23:51

14 years old. We've been together 44 years and married for 28 years.
It hasn't been easy sometimes and we've certainly had our ups and downs but after all life has thrown at us I am sure he is the one.

Moanranger · 23/06/2025 23:47

Sixty two. I was going through a brutal divorce. He was my knight in shining armour. Still is.

Cranberry2020 · 23/06/2025 23:23

19
married 25 years this year

Hulabalu · 23/06/2025 23:20

Seawolves · 23/06/2025 02:45

Cancer. It's a bloody evil disease.

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that is sad, I’m sorry to hear that, at least you found each other and found love 😔

Seawolves · 23/06/2025 02:45

Hulabalu · 22/06/2025 23:39

What happened?

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Cancer. It's a bloody evil disease.

bettydavieseyes · 23/06/2025 01:38
  1. I thought the love of my life was a man I met when I was 22, we were together 3 years and engaged and had a baby but we broke up. I was devasted for years. A few unsuitable men later and I stopped looking at men altogether. I had 2 more children in my mid 30's via a donor. 2 years ago I met my wife via a dating app. It felt like a completely perfect experience and I knew she was the one within weeks. We got engaged after 6 weeks and got married a year after we met. We just had our first anniversary. She's definitely the one. I was never straight and didn't know myself properly. I couldn't be happier now.
EmeraldShamrock000 · 23/06/2025 01:32

Which one, two were the love of my life, until they weren't.
I met DH at 24, didn't get together for 2 years.

YankSplaining · 23/06/2025 01:28

Met at 14 and 16, started dating when we were 16 and (still just barely) 17.

Growlybear83 · 23/06/2025 01:20

I met my husband a few weeks before my 18th birthday, when he was 22. We moved in together three months later - it would have been sooner but landlords weee very reluctant to rent to unmarried couples in those days. We got married when I was 21, and we’re still happily married now at 67 and 71.

cheesycheesy · 23/06/2025 01:18

26

Rayqueen · 23/06/2025 01:03

Met at 17 got married 18 now 40 with 4 kids and even happier than day 1, my best friend,lover,soulmate

tinyspiny · 23/06/2025 00:58

18 , about 2 weeks before my 19th birthday , late 50s now and been married for 36 wonderful years .

Mistyglade · 23/06/2025 00:58

Still waiting at 47!

UniqueRedSquid · 23/06/2025 00:48

Met aged 14/15. Became a couple at 17/18. Married at 24/25. Baby at 29/30. 31 now and happier than ever.

Feel very fortunate and hope life and health are kind to us.

user593 · 23/06/2025 00:13

26 but it didn’t settle into a stable relationship for very many years.

elm26 · 23/06/2025 00:12

13, met at school and lived in the same village. Married at 21, our first was born when we were 29 & 30 now expecting our second at 32 & 33. We’ve been through hell and back together, 13 miscarriages, a mental breakdown and starting and running a business but somehow we seem to conquer it all and I love him more than ever!

Thisshirtisonfire · 22/06/2025 23:55

I met him at 21 but we didn't become a couple until I was 27. We were friends for those intervening years.
I'm 38 now and we are married with 3 children.

boccaallupo · 22/06/2025 23:53

46 😊

SumUp · 22/06/2025 23:50

42 - he’s my soulmate.

Dita73 · 22/06/2025 23:47

Actually met him when I was 8 and he was 15 but we got together 10 years later. Now been together for 33 years