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Is your husband/partner the love of your life?

56 replies

MooMooFarm · 10/01/2011 11:52

Feeling loved up today (must be ovulating, ha ha!) so thought I would start a nice happy thread for a change!

DH is definitely the love of my life/the one. We absolutely get on and understand each other better than anyone else does or ever has. He is always kind and considerate towards me and never takes any grumps out on me. And I still fancy him and think 'ooh!' when he walks in the door, despite being together a loooooong time!

If there is such thing as a soul-mate he is definitely it Smile

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TheSecondComing · 10/01/2011 16:02

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deemented · 10/01/2011 16:03

I'm not hormonal. Wish i was - it'd mean i was actually ovulating...

IAmReallyFabNow · 10/01/2011 16:16

Yes, he is the love of my life. Grin

CaptainNancy · 10/01/2011 16:26

erm.. I actually meant Snufkin himself in rl... Blush

It was a (weak) joke Smile

Mimblesson · 10/01/2011 16:29

Sorry Smile. I thought you might be joking, but then again I'm new and as far as I know there may be a poster called Snufkin!

Snufkin was one of my favourite characters in the Moomin books and I used to have a cat named after him when I was still single.

kahlua4me · 10/01/2011 16:33

My dh certainly is the love of my life. He gives me the security I have never known with men, and makes me feel so safe.
Also I still get butterflies seeing him drive past or hearing his key in the door!

Ormirian · 10/01/2011 16:35

I guess so as he is the only man I intend to be with for the rest of my life. He is a good man and good to me. I love him and like him. I am not in love with him. There are no fireworks and champagne. But I'm 45 and no looker Grin so perhaps that is to be expected.

Alouiseg · 10/01/2011 16:36

I'm the love of his life Wink

CaptainNancy · 10/01/2011 16:40

I have always wanted to be Snufkin- my favourite too! Smile

Mimblesson · 10/01/2011 16:45

Ah, I was very Snufkin-like in indepedence and self-reliance when I was younger, so much so that I found it very difficult to settle down and there were a few problems at the start of our marriage because of that. That passed, though and now I'm very happy to be sitting still with my lovely wife and wonderful son ;-)

perfumedlife · 10/01/2011 16:47

Grin pmsl at the silent budgie! My budgie knows when not to talk to me. Oddly perceptive little things, aren't they?

JamieLeeCurtis · 10/01/2011 17:16

Orm - I beg to differ. You hot mama

MooMooFarm · 10/01/2011 18:25

Lurving the replies!

deemented I can clearly remember seeing a photo of a man's nipple with some milk dripping off it on the front of a Sunday paper years ago - so it must be true.

and 2rebecca your romantic reply about 'bloke' bought a tear to my eye Grin

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MargaretGraceBondfield · 10/01/2011 19:10

Thanks Mal....Smile

QuickLookBusy · 10/01/2011 19:33

Yes my DH is the love of my life.

He works away a lot and I miss him so much.

Mind you we have lots of rampant sex lovely times when he gets backGrin

merrywidow · 10/01/2011 20:26

DP is love of my life - I waited long enough to be with him; 24 years. There will never be anyone like him.

FaffTastic · 10/01/2011 20:31

At the moment, I feel like my DH isn't the love of my life. I wish he was though.

PineCones · 10/01/2011 20:41

I thought he was. Now I'm not so sure. Maybe somewhere out there there's someone else for me who's better suited and to whom I'm better suited.
Sorry to dampen the happiness of the thread Sad

MabelMay · 10/01/2011 20:48

Nope, don't think mine is. Sad

garciasangria · 10/01/2011 21:20

No Sad

We got together when i was 19, he was 25...he was a laugh, and very into me - i lived away from home, and the security and confidence he gave me was lovely. He's good looking, very easy to get on with, but I never really fancied him iykwim

Got preg 6 months later. Had DS1 when I was 20. From very early age it was apparent DS1 had severe learning difficulties, and other medical problems. We got married when I was 21, parental pressure on both sides. (wedding was a quick jaunt to registry office in a hired dress, then back to DS's bedside in hospital)

We clung together through DS's ill health tbh.

Then, 2 years later, just after DD was born, DH got ill. He was in and out of hospital for a long time, 3 or 4 years, and is now disabled, and in a wheelchair.

What kills me is that everyone thinks we're this fantastic couple. DS1 now 15, and yes, severely disabled, but a lovely boy. We also have healthy DD and DS2, and own our own business. People often say to us that we're such great couple who've come through such adversity and look how we've survived it.

But I don't want my life.

And I feel like such a fraud. Sad DH a fantastic, wonderful man. Easy to talk to, very loving and attentive. And yes, if I'm honest the disability gets to me. I feel his leg stumps touch me in bed and I want to vomit. And that's terrible, I know. I love him, but I was never IN LOVE with him.

I wouldn't hurt DH for the world, but just for once, I'd love to feel the in love , or feeling that someone is love of your life that other people do.

I'm sorry, I seem to have hijacked this thread to offload, but I never tell anyone in RL how I feel, so thx mumsnet...having a little self-indulgent but theraputic cry here too.

Hulababy · 10/01/2011 21:23

Yes, as been since we were 16.

IAmReallyFabNow · 10/01/2011 21:26

garciasangria Sad. I wish I knew what to say to you.

garciasangria · 10/01/2011 21:45

Fab, thank you for replying. I'm quite loud and always upbeat in rl, but don't often say what I actually feel. Guess writing it brought it home to me. Good cry helped tho Smile

Carrotsandcelery · 10/01/2011 21:49

My dh and I also seem to be improving over time Jamie - he is my buddy Grin

Richlinn · 10/01/2011 22:20

GarciaSangria you say that you are not living the life you want. Well, you only get one bite at the cherry so you need work towards this, even if it is in small baby steps. If you feel you are doing something constructive - even if you know it will take time - it should help make you feel better.

FYI I am not with the love of my life, but with someone who is very nice but there are no fireworks. I am planning my escape because I feel I am living my partner's definition of what my life should be. Enough! Life is for living and I want to do it my way. I hope you do too.