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How many people love you?

126 replies

AmeliaHarbottle · 16/05/2025 21:14

I was just pondering this today. I think only my children and OH. Which doesn’t seem a lot.

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Madisnttheword · 16/05/2025 21:15

Same for me op, only my husband and children.

Unexpectedlysinglemum · 16/05/2025 21:16

Loads of friends and family and my son, but I don't actually think any man I've dates has genuinely in the sense of wanting the best for me, they have just loved what I do for them

MsTada · 16/05/2025 21:17

My partner, my little boy, my parents and my brother.

Kneeslikethese · 16/05/2025 21:17

Husband and children. I think my 2 good friends love me, I love them. My cousin too.

Seawolves · 16/05/2025 21:18

My DH, even though he's no longer here. My two birth children, my son-in-law, my current fostered one and all the ones that preceded my current one so 12 people in total.

DramaAlpaca · 16/05/2025 21:18

I think quite a lot, actually. DH and three DC for sure, parents and sibling, nieces and nephews, and a handful of friends.

CalicoPusscat · 16/05/2025 21:18

My friends and relatives. But not as much as I love them 😁

I like loving people.

Picklechicken · 16/05/2025 21:18

Husband and children, and possibly my ex mil who I’ve stayed very close friends with for 22 years (since before dd was born). She’s like a mum to me (my own Mum was awful).

MatildaMovesMountains · 16/05/2025 21:19

My mum, my brother, my aunt, my 5 kids, my grandchildren, my best friend, a handful of colleagues.

Trinity69 · 16/05/2025 21:20

My parents, my brother, my kids, my DP and my best friend.

Cognacsoft · 16/05/2025 21:21

My dh, dc and dgc, my siblings, 5 of my nieces and nephews, my parents, my best friend and her dh.
21 - happy with that.

2chocolateoranges · 16/05/2025 21:22

Dh, ds, dd, mum, a few aunts, my cousins, my best friends.

quite a few thinking about it.

Willyourselfforward · 16/05/2025 21:22

No one. I deserve it

PoodlesRUs · 16/05/2025 21:22

Everybody loves me! How could they not?

abracadabra1980 · 16/05/2025 21:23

It's varied throughout my life but at the very core, my mum, dad, sister and my two (now grown up) children. I'm also lucky to have experienced friendships where I know I am much loved but this ebbs and flows with age and how life rolls, as I've know my oldest friend since I was born. We don't see much of each other these days but of the shit hit the fan, I know she'd be there for me.

SleeplessInWherever · 16/05/2025 21:23

Partner, stepson, parents, siblings, nephews, best friends who are basically life long at this point.

I arrived at 10.

WednesdaysChild25 · 16/05/2025 21:23

Less than a dozen people I’d say, a very small family and even smaller friendship circle

KimKardashiansLostEarring · 16/05/2025 21:23

DH, my 3 kids, 100% for sure.

My parents, my 2 remaining grandparents, one cousin. They Love me but nowhere near in the same way as DH and the kids.

Friends love being in my presence, I know that, and it’s mutual. We say ‘love
you’ to each other way more than the parents/gparents category above.

Aunts are fond of me. Uncles care for my wellbeing. Cousins would be take aback if i died for example. But probably don’t love me, because we don’t really know each other.

FIL repeatedly says he loves me but utterly hates my guts judging by his actions (he doesn’t know me at all, so whether he says he loves me or hates me, it’s all baseless).

There’s lots of different kinds of love I guess!

Maddy70 · 16/05/2025 21:24

My friends as well as my family. I am mid cancer treatment and the live and support I have had has been astounding. You are all loved much more than you think

Pushmepullyou · 16/05/2025 21:25

11 I think. Dad, sister, DH, 2xDC, cousin and about 5 close friends

Meadowfinch · 16/05/2025 21:28

dbrother, 2 x dsis, ds

That's enough for me 😊

Upsidedownagain · 16/05/2025 21:29

My DH, two kids, dad, brother, sister, best friend and my cat (well, she loves what I can do for her).

Wakemeupbe4yougogo · 16/05/2025 21:30

Husband
3 x Kids
4 x grandchildren
2 x Dogs

Can live with that quite happily.

Ecrire · 16/05/2025 21:30

Mum
dad
DH
Ds
DD
DDog

lucky.

decafearlgrey · 16/05/2025 21:32

DH and DD

Then Mum, Dad, DB.

But DH and DD the most!

Have a handful of very old friends that I wouldn't say love me, but whom like being in my company on the rare occasions we meet up.