if you met your DH/DP over 30, how quickly did things happen?

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Is it true things generally move quicker than in a 20-something relationship?

Yes! Much faster.
My two best friends both found their own partners in their early thirties. After mainly having casual relationships in their 20s or long standing on/off -not really- boyfriends.

Within a couple of years both have found men (probably not men they'd have been very interested in a decade before) but right time right place.
One is engaged and bought a house after knowing her partner 12 months, the wedding is in May. The other is moved in to his place and expecting a baby any minute now! After almost two years together.

As an onlooker, it's happy and sad. I think one of the couples are lovely but the other I think felt very rushed by the biological clock and maybe wouldn't be with this guy if it wasn't for that. Knowing her all these years I can't possibly believe she finds the man attractive.

Definitely faster.
But the reasons that I would have taken things slow in my 20’s- wanting to travel, getting qualifications, career building, not being ready for the responsibility of a family - were behind us. I also had much higher standards. In my 20s a boyfriend was about proving myself to my friends. By my 30s I wouldn’t waste time with anyone less than wonderful. And I had far better criteria for what to look for and expect.
My 20 year old self wouldn’t have had enough cop on to fancy dh but by 30 I knew a good thing.

My 20 year old self wouldn’t have had enough cop on to fancy dh but by 30 I knew a good thing. This is so true - in my 20s I was looking for someone cool - no strings, things changed when i met dh - he was not my usual type and that was very much a good thing.

Met July 2016
Proposed July 2017
Married December 2017
Pregnant May 2018
Currently very fat at 41+1 weeks pregnant!

I was 34 when we met, he was 33.

I was 30 when I met my DH,we met online and we chatted for about 6 weeks before we met(I had 4DC and we lived an hour away from each other)we had our first date on Valentines Day that year and we've been together ever since.

It will be 13 years for us this Valentines day and we'll have been married 8 years this summer,we now have 5DC and DH is Dad to all 5 of our DC,he has adopted my DS17 and DD15.

Met DH at 29, moved in at 30, bought house at 31, baby at 31, married at 33

Met at 36 (he was 45), bought a house together and moved into it within a year or so, married with 2 kids within 5 years.

First date in Feb 2016. Positive pregnancy test in early Dec 2016 (planned). I was 36 - nearly 37 - when we met.

I was 29 almost 30, DH was 31when we met. Married 9 weeks later. That was 30+ years ago.

I met my DH when we were both 31 and moved in after 11 months - more due to circumstances (his flatmate moved out and it made sense as I was still living with my parents).

Nothing else moved more quickly than the norm I don't think. Married at 34 and had a baby at 35