To ask what age you met the love of your life

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

Surely the ‘love of your life’ is just the current person you’re in love with? You don’t know that answer til your dead.

29 and been married nearly 20 years

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55

Met at 17...
Married at 25
Still together at 62/63.

33 - We’re married and have been together for 11 years.

25, still together 21 years later

I don't really believe in the concept of "love of my life" and "the one" etc. The idea of there only being one person in the whole world who is right for you is daft.

Finding the right person for you depends in large part on when you are both ready to commit and do your best to make something work. No relationship will ever meet all your needs and while compatibility is important I think there are multiple potential partners for any one person. It's how you both conduct yourselves as the relationship progresses that ultimately decides its success, no particular magic.

I met my now DP when I was 44, three years after my 12 year marriage broke down. We got together when I was 46, moved in five years later. I don't believe he is "the one": he's just a good partner with whom I have a good relationship. But in large part I think this was because, having had a bad marriage, I had a much clearer idea of what I wanted and didn't want in a partner.

This is why in general I think young marriage is a bad idea, although I know a lot of people disagree. I just don't think a person in their late teens or early 20s is emotionally mature enough to know what they need to sustain them for the rest of their life. I think you need to have tested the waters a bit before you get there.

Met at 17 , married at 19 ( wow , different times ) divorced at 38 , met someone else at 40 still together ( and now married ) 20 years later .
However , cynical old me questions the sole mate,/ love of my life statements as I've never been over demonstrative with either , and either have they , we've never gazed at each other for hours nor not bear not to have a hand on them at all times etc
Love , yes . Respect - yes , enjoy each others company , yes , but solemates / love of life ? ? ?

17, been together 26 years, married 23 years

I'm lucky I guess. I've had 2. (Unfortunately also a lot of timewasters 😆)
First I met at 25, I was 100% myself with him, was perfect, he unfortunately died a couple of years later.

Gave up hope of ever feeling that again, had another LTR (my longest to date) but I'd settled for just 'ok' then a relatively short 'just ok' relationship of 2 years

Aged 42 I got together with one of my oldest friends, and its back! That comfortableness that only comes from being with someone that absolutely fits me perfectly. I'm so in love 4 years later and I can't see it changing. We want to grow old together.

By all means settle for a time if it suits. But he's out there, might have been right under your nose for 25 years 😁

I was 17 he was 25 been together 31 years married for 25 years this year

Age 34, married at 36. 11 years, 2 house moves, 2 job moves and 2 kids later we are thankfully , embarrassingly (to our DDs) loved up. He is my best friend.

Days away from 45 (and plenty of baggage), met the man of my absolute dreams. Nearly 5 years later and couldn’t be happier and have booked our wedding 😊

Both 31. Had both spent our twenties mostly single. Very happy 14 years later.

Well I'm not dead so who can say? 45 for this one

Just shy of my 19th birthday. 45 now and still going strong.

I feel really rubbish that my ex met somebody almost instantly. I’m still single, not like I have a point to prove.

I was 37 (am 42 now). I'd only really been in one serious relationship which ended when I was 30, and that only lasted about 2 and a bit years. Tbh I wasn't really looking, and was happy to stay single, but there we go.

I was 16, then widowed. Then in my 30's, but he developed an addiction, had a great time while it lasted. I met my current DP at 52, nearly six years ago. We are happy, I'm partly his carer, but he totally suits me, isn't grumpy, is kind and laid back. It's what I need at my age. I've also had fun dating. Dating should be fun. Have some fun.

42, I'm now 59 and he's still the live of my life

Early 20s

I was 24. We've been together for 14 years, married for 10. Doesn't seem possible really, for that much time to have passed!

Met, or got together? My wife and I got together when I was 42. She is a couple of years older, but I didn't say so out loud.

Douglas Adams suggests that the answer to life, the universe, and everything is 42, so it seems appropriate.

I had known her a good few years prior.

15, he was 16 and in the year above me at school. Got engaged when I was 18, married aged 21, now we're just weeks away from our 41st wedding anniversary. He's just ace, he really is.