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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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YellowGrey · 22/06/2025 10:25

22

FutureCatMum · 22/06/2025 10:24

I was 38 when I met the person I thought was the love of my life. After a similarly long marriage. Turns out I wasn’t his 😂
But you have time.

UnctuousUnicorns · 22/06/2025 10:24

Two months short of turning 25, we've been together for nearly thirty years now, married for 26. We were both two hopelessly awkward virgins from single sex schools, so we were well matched. We worked it all out together. 😁 Moved in together a year after meeting, married three years after (meeting), first DC arrived seven months after the wedding, now three DC, the youngest soon to turn 16.

WhiskyandWater · 22/06/2025 10:24

27 but I didn’t know it and was married (happily) to someone else who I thought was. Ten year later I got divorced and he was such a good friend to me, supported me through it and I looked at him in a different way. 8 years on he’s absolutely the love of my life.

Friendofdennis · 22/06/2025 10:22
  1. I felt I had known him all my life. He had all the attributes I knew I wanted in a husband by that point. Loyalty, love kindness and gentleness We have been married 25 years now
MadamCholetsbonnet · 22/06/2025 10:21

I was 17 and he was 19. The one who got away. I am sixty now and still think about him.

ssd · 22/06/2025 10:19

26

TaupeMember · 22/06/2025 10:16

32

justkeepswimingswiming · 22/06/2025 10:16

17 been together 18 years!

SaturdayDream · 22/06/2025 10:15

I was 29.
l had previously been in a relationship from the age of 16 but I didn’t love him for a long time. I ended it as I was approaching 30, I knew I wanted more out of life and a few months later I met my partner. I used to say he was the man of my dreams from the moment I met him.

Ruggerlass · 22/06/2025 10:12

Both of us were 21, married within 2 years. Will be marred 38 years next month. We would have got married sooner but he was in his final year of uni. Got married 2 days after he graduated.

YesThatsATurdOnTheRug · 22/06/2025 10:00

Tulisaaa · 22/06/2025 09:59

If I stay single I will never get hurt again!

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Very true, but I guess it depends if you're happy single! I'm going to give it a year or so I think then maybe dip my toe back in, but I'm also an unreasonable optimist 😂

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Tulisaaa · 22/06/2025 09:59

YesThatsATurdOnTheRug · 22/06/2025 09:58

Still hoping given that my ex h just left me at 40 after ten years married! 😬

If I stay single I will never get hurt again!

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goodnightssleepbenice · 22/06/2025 09:58

I was 31 had been married for 7 years before meeting by now DH . We had been split up 2 years when we met

YesThatsATurdOnTheRug · 22/06/2025 09:58

Still hoping given that my ex h just left me at 40 after ten years married! 😬

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