to ask if anyone has met their partner later on in life and had a family?

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I'm only 29, but I'm single and would love to meet someone and have children. I'm not desperate and won't just settle with someone for this reason alone, however I'm nearly 30 and feel time is ticking.

Has anyone here not met their partners until their 30s and gone on to have a family?

Ok, 30 isn't really later on in life, but if it takes me 5 years to meet someone, that would make me 35, then I have to get to know them well enough to have children with them, and I just never pictured myself starting in my late 30s early 40s.

Met my partner at 32, married at 35 and just had a baby. Sister met hers at 37 and is ttc now. So yes definitely doable. 29 is so young!

DH and I got together when I was 33, 18 months later and DD was born when I was 37. It might have been quicker if DH hadn't had to get his divorce organised first (long separated when we got together but hadn't bothered with divorcing).

Met my husband a few months after turning 30.
We were married before my 31st 😁

It was quick but 10 years and 2 kids later I know it was the best decision of my life

*married 18 months later

Met my husband in my thirties. First child 36 and second at 39. I was in no hurry and my DH is wonderful and was definitely worth the wait. He is even older (slightly) but had also never married/had children as he was apparently waiting for the right woman ;-)

Met my husband at 33, 1st child at 36, 2nd child at 37, now pregnant at 39 with our third

Bess friend met her husband when he was 45. They’re not married with two kids, all before his 50th. She’s 39 so plenty of time!

I think what gore describing is mor common. DH and I met young (18 & 19) and we definitely are considered weird unusual for that, among other parents. I can think of many more parents who met their partners in their 30s than I can parents who were with their partners in their twenties.

Starting dating at 30, married at 32, baby at 34.

I don’t think I was ready to settle down in my 20s, I had a serious boyfriend at 16 and was with him for 4 years. In my 20s I (finally) did my A-levels, went to uni, lived a very hedonistic life !

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We met at 33 and 36 and had healthy babies naturally conceived when I was 39, 40 and 43. We don't underestimate how lucky we are when we look at the statistics.

I met my husband at 32, got married at 34 and had my two boys at 36 and 39.

Met DH at 30. Married at 32. Had DS at 36 and DD at 39. DH is a year older than I am.

Down side was not being able to have the number of children I wanted - but a baby at 40 nearly broke me because she didn't bloody sleep!

We met when I was 31, I was a month away from 36 when we married, and we had the children when I was 36 and 37!

Met a month before my 36th birthday, married 2 years later, eldest born just before 39th birthday and youngest just after my 41st

Met DH when I was 28, about 4 weeks before I turned 29. Engaged after 6 weeks. Married 3 weeks before I turned 30 had dd1 at 35, dd2 38 and DS just before I turned 40.

Met at 34 married at 36 child one at 38 and two at 40. When I hit 42 I plan the mid life crisis

I met DH abroad, didn’t get together until 30’s. First DC at 35, then 37, then 40.

Met my partner at 28, he was 22. Didn’t get married until I was 35. Had my son at just 37,
my first daughter at 39 and my second daughter at 41.

Meet a few weeks before my 37th birthday. Married at 37. Honeymoon baby born at 38. Second child due whilst I'm still 39.

I guess it's been an eventful couple of years! I'd totally assumed that I was settled as a single childless person and would be for the rest of my life. Wrong!

OP, it isn't too late for you. But don't spend the time waiting. Make the most of each year.

Met my husband when I was 37, married a year later. Had my first baby at 40 and now 7 months pregnant with my second at 45!
Ideally I maybe wouldn't have left it this late but I just didn't meet the right guy til then! :)

You might be surprised at how timeframes can compress with the right person.

I met DH when I was 29. By my 34th birthday we were married, owned a flat and had a baby.

Met him at 35, ds arrived when I was 36, now 39 and due number 2 in a few weeks.
I too thought I would be single and childless for ever.

Another one here - met when I was 37, baby at 39. He's 14 now. Don't despair.