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To ask what age you met the love of your life

140 replies

Tulisaaa · 22/06/2025 09:57

After some inspiration 🤣 just turned 37 and in no rush for a relationship after my 20 year relationship ended a year ago.

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YesThatsATurdOnTheRug · 22/06/2025 09:58

Still hoping given that my ex h just left me at 40 after ten years married! 😬

goodnightssleepbenice · 22/06/2025 09:58

I was 31 had been married for 7 years before meeting by now DH . We had been split up 2 years when we met

Tulisaaa · 22/06/2025 09:59

YesThatsATurdOnTheRug · 22/06/2025 09:58

Still hoping given that my ex h just left me at 40 after ten years married! 😬

If I stay single I will never get hurt again!

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YesThatsATurdOnTheRug · 22/06/2025 10:00

Tulisaaa · 22/06/2025 09:59

If I stay single I will never get hurt again!

Very true, but I guess it depends if you're happy single! I'm going to give it a year or so I think then maybe dip my toe back in, but I'm also an unreasonable optimist 😂

Ruggerlass · 22/06/2025 10:12

Both of us were 21, married within 2 years. Will be marred 38 years next month. We would have got married sooner but he was in his final year of uni. Got married 2 days after he graduated.

SaturdayDream · 22/06/2025 10:15

I was 29.
l had previously been in a relationship from the age of 16 but I didn’t love him for a long time. I ended it as I was approaching 30, I knew I wanted more out of life and a few months later I met my partner. I used to say he was the man of my dreams from the moment I met him.

justkeepswimingswiming · 22/06/2025 10:16

17 been together 18 years!

TaupeMember · 22/06/2025 10:16

32

ssd · 22/06/2025 10:19

26

MadamCholetsbonnet · 22/06/2025 10:21

I was 17 and he was 19. The one who got away. I am sixty now and still think about him.

Friendofdennis · 22/06/2025 10:22
  1. I felt I had known him all my life. He had all the attributes I knew I wanted in a husband by that point. Loyalty, love kindness and gentleness We have been married 25 years now
WhiskyandWater · 22/06/2025 10:24

27 but I didn’t know it and was married (happily) to someone else who I thought was. Ten year later I got divorced and he was such a good friend to me, supported me through it and I looked at him in a different way. 8 years on he’s absolutely the love of my life.

UnctuousUnicorns · 22/06/2025 10:24

Two months short of turning 25, we've been together for nearly thirty years now, married for 26. We were both two hopelessly awkward virgins from single sex schools, so we were well matched. We worked it all out together. 😁 Moved in together a year after meeting, married three years after (meeting), first DC arrived seven months after the wedding, now three DC, the youngest soon to turn 16.

FutureCatMum · 22/06/2025 10:24

I was 38 when I met the person I thought was the love of my life. After a similarly long marriage. Turns out I wasn’t his 😂
But you have time.

YellowGrey · 22/06/2025 10:25

22

BeyondMyWits · 22/06/2025 10:25

Also 34... married at 35, kids at 36 and 37.
61 now, and the twinkle in his eye still gives me butterflies.

mrselizabethdarcy · 22/06/2025 10:25

Age 49. Was single for 10 years after my divorce and had pretty much given up and thought I'd be single forever. He is my soulmate and I've never felt so loved and happy. Absolute love of my life!

spoonbillstretford · 22/06/2025 10:26

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JustAnInchident · 22/06/2025 10:26

21, and he was 24. 10 years down the line and still sickeningly loved up, with the added bonus of two beautiful children. Of course, there are never any guarantees anything will last forever… but I certainly hope it does!

PocketRocket2024 · 22/06/2025 10:26

16

itbemay1 · 22/06/2025 10:27

age 20. Still married. It’s not been easy but I love him and the life we have built. 30 years later and still bobbing along nicely. If we were to separate I’d hope we’d still be friends but you never know. I also don’t think I’d bother again. Being single is also a good life!

Sakura7 · 22/06/2025 10:27

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Chasingsquirrels · 22/06/2025 10:27

Which one?

Met 1st H @ uni aged 18, together till 35.

Met 2nd H @ work aged 27, worked for him for years, nothing between us until a year or so after H1 left, got together aged 37. He died when I was 44.

Met current partner on OLD aged 46, still together in my mid-50s.

ANiceBigCupOfTea · 22/06/2025 10:28

19
If I hadn't met him I'd have stayed single as I never thought of myself as the marrying type

Fletchasketch · 22/06/2025 10:30

Forty. I was happily single with a great life when I turned 40. A few months later, I had a message from someone I’d met on a dating app a few months previously. He has a smile that lights up his whole face and I was captivated from the first date. Luckily he felt the same and two years later we’re happier than ever and I can’t imagine my life without him. He is the kindest man I know and I’m so glad I made that a priority and didn’t settle.

For anyone who thinks they might have missed the boat. You haven’t.