Would you say...

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your DH is the love of your life? And why/why not?

Yes, because I have made him that. Which is to say that when I decided to marry him I decided to throw my lot in with him, for better or for worse, richer or poorer blah blah blah. I suppose I could look outside my marriage for something better, but (a) the grass is never greener (b) nothing stays the same forever (c) no marriage is without its ups and downs. Cheaper and easier to stick with what I've got!

Plus, it helps that he's amazing, and I'm impossible, so really he should be the one answering this

Yes he is. I can be myself completely and he's helped me become the best version of myself. I also know that he has my back no matter what, we are a team and he gives me this feeling of 'it will be ok'.
He's also kind, honest, good values, loves my family as if they're his, so respectful of everyone. I could go on.

No I wouldn't because it's a cheesy line.

Not to mention there's an implied "so far" or "right now" because your life is not over and you don't know where it will take you. You can want someone to be the "love of your life" but they only will be if they stick around.

He is the absolute, one and only love of my life. If soulmates exist, he is mine.

He 'gets' me, and I get him. He knows me better than I know myself; he knows what I am thinking. He is attuned to me. He understands me. He always tells me the truth even if the truth hurts/isn't what I want to hear. And if he is too blunt, he is always able to make that truth palatable to me. Even if I am wrong, he will tell me so, but would still defend me.

He is so funny. He makes me laugh every day. He soothes my furrowed brow. He is my best friend and I wouldn't be without him. And he is very good-looking. Beautiful, in fact

I could go on Love him, I do

He's a great bloke, but he's just a man. No better or worse than me. The biggest "loves of my life" are my children.

I was thinking similar to AF, my children are the loves of my life. My DP is an amazing friend and lover and co-parent and all that, but I'm sure we can both imagine life continuing without the other.

Hell yes, along with my children.
He is my best friend, confidant, lover, he's my rock, he makes me laugh, he picks me up and I would be devastated if I ever lost him.

Soul mates are real. I have mine. And im happier than ive ever been. He is the love of my life. It does exist.

Yes. Because we've been through some fucking awful times, things that people should never have to go through in their entire life, and stood solidly by each other's side. Because he has seen me at my absolute worst, and loved me anyway. Because he makes me belly laugh daily, he is my confidant, my best friend, because he makes me feel safe and for a million other reasons. He and our son are my entire world.

No he wasn't. I wouldn't say I'd ever had "a love of my life" but that may be because I don't believe in them.

Hoping there will be someone else significant in my future at some point - but I don't expect to be "completed", or find my other half, or any of that nonsense

No

Yes he is.

Having said that, I know if people who are widowed who have been lucky to find another partner, but wouldn't have looked twice at the new partner if their first was still alive as they would have seen them, if that makes sense!

In otherwords we choose to stay committed but there's more than one chance.

Thinking about it, I loved my previous boyfriend, at the time, so by definition my DP can't be the love of my life.

What's the chances of you meeting the one soulmate in the whole wide world that trumps all others 1) down your local pub 2) at your workplace 3) through a friend ie. within a very confined radius. Most people settle down with a partner from their own circle or at least their own country.

I reckon my "soul mate" is an Inuit Eskimo living in an igloo in Antarctica. It's a matter of deep regret for me I will never have that "he is the only one to complete me" experience

An Inuit man living in Antarctica AF?

Yep, that's him. No one else will measure up to him.

what-if.xkcd.com/9/

I do because fate kept throwing us at each other from childhood but we always just missed meeting until Uni, which was a big place and I could easily have not met him there either.
We were friends for a few years until a set of circumstances came together and we ended up together. We both said we were slightly reluctant to be in a relationship together because we knew that if we did it would be forever.
Soppy story, apologies!!!

I'd say yes for my DP.
But then I would have thought that about an ex but I later changed my mind...

Nah

I don't think a soulmate is 1 person in the whole world, I think there are loads of potential soulmates and hopefully you will find one (if that's what you want of course)

He's the love of my life so far.

I can't see into the future. We might split up (though I can't see why we would at the moment) or he might die (sorry to be blunt). I might meet someone else and have an amazing life with them too.

If you asked me this a year ago I would of said dh was however things have changed in that time and only time will tell if he's my soul mate or not so at the time being no he's not until proven otherwise.

I agree with the PP who says that their Dp is the love of their life because they made them that way.

My Dp is the live of my life because we work at it, we created a life together, we created a child together, not because we were destined to meet but because when we did meet we decided to make it work.

At times yes and at times, certainly bloody not.