To ask for your stories of finding love in your 40s?

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Single mum, recently divorced. I feel that I will be alone forever. Please cheer me (and give me ideas of where I could meet someone!).

Met my oh online aged 48, still with him at 51. We don't live together and have no plans to. My mum got remarried at 68 to someone she'd known from childhood and meet up again years later. There's always hope.

I met my husband just before turning 40 and when I was convinced there simply wasn't anyone out there for me. A friend's mother got married in her 70s and another friend's in her 80s.

So yes, it can and does happen

Myum was mid-40s when she met my stepdad. They are ridiculously happy and compatible- they're both pretty weird in ways that really complement each other. He's six years younger than she is, and she's disabled and he takes really good care or her. They've been together 25 years.

Myum= my mum

After walking out of a 10 year marriage then having a fiasco of a relationship with DD's DF I finally found true love in my very late 30s. A rescue Staffordshire Bull Terrier .

I married DH when I was 48 and he was 55, both divorced from unhappy marriages; in my case from DH1 who left me for his OW! I had been single for 3 years at that point.

We had dated for 18 months many years before, but it didn't work out then and we moved on, married other people and lost touch. We met up again completely by chance, walking in opposite directions along a street in a town neither of us lived in!! I was meeting an old friend for lunch, he was on his way to a business meeting.

I was just getting divorced from DH. We had one of those "what are you doing these days" type conversations people have when the meet someone they've not seen for ages, and he asked me out for a drink. He had just come out of a LTR and was living alone.

The rest, as they say, is history. We've had our share of ups and downs of course, but have now been married for 17 years.

I was slightly older than that, but it's a hopeful story, so... Kicked XH out in the end. Being alone forever was better than being with him at that stage. Went Online, and sifted through a lot of time wasters. Occasionally came off it for a while. During the course of 2 yrs, had discussions with about 200 blokes. Some were very stupid, and had put profile photos of them in bedrooms obviously inhabited by women, think jewellery stands on the dressing table etc. Only actually met one bloke. Reader, I married him. And I was older than you and a bit fat :)

I was with my ex from the age of 16 until 38, married for 9 years of that. After we split I decided to try online dating as had no real options of meeting new people anywhere so I joined POF and within 4 months, at the start of 2017, met my now DH. We lived in the same town but would never have crossed paths otherwise.

We moved in together 6 months later, the week of my 40th. After almost 2 years together he proposed and we married in Vegas the following year, was great fun & the best day ever. We're coming up to 5 years together now & I can honestly say he is the love of my life.