If you had given up but then met the one and had a family after 35, can you give me some hope?

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I like my life but I have always wanted a marriage and a family.

Did you meet the one after 35 and have everything you wanted even when you thought you never would?

I already feel like i have missed out on so much time in a stable loving relationship with a family.

Sorry I was 37 when we got together and had dd at 38.

Met DP (now DH) when I was 32, not perfect but a keeper. Had DD at 36.

I wouldn’t discount someone just because they can’t have a heart to heart over a book (there is always a book club!), or they don’t have the same education/ background. I have a high IQ, University educated and like yourself I am a book lover. My dh is not low IQ at all- he is very intelligent with a great interest in current affairs and politics, but not University educated and definitely not bookish in any way. We compliment each other though (and he has built me a beautiful library wall in our lounge, as well as never moaning at the constant stream of books that I order!)

Interestingly, my dh comes from a middle class family with a good deal of money, where as I come from a working class background. You would expect it was the reverse! Despite our differences we are still very much in love sixteen years after meeting! We are very much best friends!

My parents always thought I would marry a Lawyer, Doctor or teacher, I may have once suspected the same. I am glad that I didn’t though, I am so happy with my dh! So try to be open minded.

Met DP at 29. We didn't get together till we were nearly 36, and in the meantime I had some really awful relationships. Then we got together and it was just like we had gone 'aah that is the right thing'. I was 100% convinced I was never getting married. Clearly wrong as we get married this year and we will be 38 when we get married :)