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

[bewilderd]

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?

Met at 39. DS at nearly 42. (I already had DD from previous looooooong relationship). Getting married next year (will be 45). Wouldn’t ever have planned it this way, but couldn’t be happier.

Met at 31, married 34, baby 35 then baby at 39. DH is 4 years older then me.

Perfectly reasonable to think that it can all happen in your 30s.

I had my eldest at 22 and split with her father not long after.( never married)
Married my now husband last year at 36 and we have a 2 year old and A 9 month old.

Sorry, have not read the full thread.

I met DP when I was 30; we got pregnant when I was 31 and she was 35, and we had DD the same year.

I have regretted many things, but I'd never regret our DD. We started trying about six weeks after moving in together and the positive test came back a year to the day of when we met. It was certainly a compressed time, but if we'd not done it I wouldn't have my daughter, who is the best thing in my life.

(I also never for a moment thought we were 'later in life,' mind! I opened this post thinking you were talking about 50-somethings adopting!)

Met my DH when I was your age, OP.

Married at 31 (almost 32) for both of us. First baby at 32, second baby at 34, third baby expected soon at 36. Might do another baby or two and have a really big family by 40!

My friend met her husband at 40, married six months later, baby at 42, second baby at 43. You have plenty of time!

I met Dh at 35, got married at 37, had DTS5 at 40 and DD at 42.

Life does not end at 30. If it did, my life would've been fucked because my 20's, for the most part, sucked. Couldn't pay me to go back to 25.

I remember feeling miserable on my 30th birthday that all my friends had settled down and I was still single and thought I'd never meet anyone, get married or have the chance to have children. I met DH 4 months after my 30th birthday (knew him from college days but had lost touch, bumped into him randomly while out shopping one day). Married him at 31 and we had 4 DC over the next 7 years. Just had our 20th wedding anniversary.

Normal and you’ve got plenty of time 💗

I left my terrible ex just after my 29th birthday. Got together with my now husband just before my 30th.

Moved in after 9 months.
Bought a house together at 31.
Got engaged at 32.
Got a rescue cat lol.
Got married at 33.
TTC two years to tick the boxes (I knew I’d need IVF)
Did IVF at 34.
Will be having twins a couple of months after turning 35 👍

You can do this 👏💖

Me, but if you’d told me 18 months ago that my life would twist so suddenly I wouldn’t have believed it.

Met a few months off 39. Married six months after meeting and baby five months after the wedding.

I spent many years divorced and childless, and I use that term rather than child-free because I desperately wanted children and was doing everything I could to make them happen, having given up on being able to make the man happen.

Met DJ at 33, got together at 35, got married at 37, had a baby at 40. You've got time yet.

DH even 🙄

29 is hardly later in life 🙄

Met partner at 38, had baby at 42.

I met DH when I was 37. Married at 38. DD is due next month (I'm 39 now), and hoping to squeeze another one in!

Met and married at 37 (he was 38). Had first child at 39 and second at 40.

Met DH at 29, he was 41. Married at 32, baby at 36.

Met DH at 28, married and had DS at 31 :)

Definitely doable. Just be very clear with men you date about what you’re looking for and don’t get into anything with anyone unless you have compatible goals.

slightly diff

i met my partner at 18, we got married at 32, but he sadly died when we were both 37 - was ttc but i had infertility probs

i actually met someone 9mths later by chance, wasnt looking

i was 38, he was 45 - had 3 kids all grown up

i said to him i needed to know was it a no to having a baby together, so could deal in my own head, or was he happy to ttc

amazingly he said yes

i said would need to be ivf

took 5 private attempts but we finally got there, i was almost 44 when gave birth, df was 50

dd is now 3, we have been together 8yrs, and was meant to get married in may :( but obv didnt

so yes we met late in life and have a family together

i am now 47, df is 53 and dd 3

hope this gives you hope

you are still young x

Met when I was 35, took a while to sort jobs/homes and now pregnant aged 40. It's definitely possible!

When I was your age, OP, I was marrying my ex and then had DS with him aged 31 and (although I wouldn't swap DS for the world!) finding a relationship would have been more straight forward in practical terms if I wasn't a single parent.

I met my husband when I was 32 and going through a divorce. We got engaged when inward 34, had our son when I was 35, got married at 37 and I'll be 38 when our baby girl arrives in October.