Tell me about meeting the love of your life when over the age of 30

[Belindaboom]

I need convinced I'm not on the shelf. TIA.

I was 33, he was 49 when we met.

It took us a long time, but ten years later here we are and he is most definitely the love of my life.

It came completely out of left-field, OP. They're out there somewhere

I met who I thought was the one for me at 34. I spent a long time telling people that I waited for a long time but good things come to those who wait! Have faith! etc

At 40 he's just dumped me though. I'm really hopeful I will meet someone else, but I don't think I'll be considering dating until I'm at least 41

Coffee this thread is also for you then - there's hope out there. Keep your chin up xx

Gave up bothering about meeting anyone and had become very comfortable in my shoes when I met the Husband. I was 35. I complained about someone at his office (another regional office of the same company) and they gave him the job instead! Telephone conversations got longer and longer, eventually we met for a date. After the first week we spent every weekend with each other and after one year moved in together. Twenty year's later .... Best complaint I ever made! I was never looking for Mr Perfect, just the Mr Perfect for me.

don't panic!
I met mine at 36, and had two lovely kids at 38 and 41.
It's all to play for! X

Met the love of my life at 56 after my 33 year old marriage hit the skids.

We've been together 9 years and married for 2
Very happy.
It wouldn't have worked earlier.
He was dead square , a proper nerd and smoked a pipe 😱
He obviously had to wait for me to calm down a lot ( and get rid of pipe) before we had a chance.
I hope we have more than 33 years together.

We are very happy and he suits me to a T

I was 29 when DH and I got together (we'd met a year previously but had lost touch for a year). We moved in together within 3 weeks, engaged within 18 months, married within 6 months, and now I'm 33, DH is 38 and we're buying a house and expecting a baby. He's truly the love of my life and we can't believe that we ever put up with anything less, tbh.

Things happen a lot faster when you're older!

Met my husband on a blind date. I had been a single mum for 15 years. Engaged 6 weeks after I met him. Together 5 1/2 years now

There is no shelf. Although sometimes we look for knights in shining armour. When really we stop looking at the great idiots in tinfoil who are often better.

I was a 33 year old single mum when I met now DH. He was 40. Neither of us had ever been married. We've been married just over 3 years now. We are incredibly happy. And, as Dowser said about her relationship, ours wouldn't have worked if we'd met earlier, as we hadn't become the right person for the other yet, iyswim.

There is always hope. But there's no shelf, so you can't be on it.

Oh, and we met at work when I was only slightly less fat than I am now.