Do you ever feel you missed out?

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My DH and I are coming up to our 6th wedding anniversary although we actually met 14 years ago when I was 18 and in my first year at uni and he was a year above. Although we've had the odd rough patch we've been pretty solid throughout. We were recently talking about various single friends and how we never really did the single thing and dated people and it got me thinking.....

Do any of you feel like you missed out on the dating thing?

Dating sucks. I have a single male friend who’s divorced and dating and it sounds exhausting. I’m glad I never have to do it again, give me contentment and settledness with someone I know inside out and love to bits anyway. The reason most people date is to find what you have.

I did the single thing for a lot of years. I was lonely and a bit unhappy. Sure I can still feel that way sometimes now, but I have DP to share it with.
He enriches my life in ways I didn’t know he could.

I met DP at 20 and have been together ever since - 21 years. My best friend, and others, spend their 20s dating, shagging, having fun. Personally, I was happy with the solidity of sharing my life with someone I utterly loved, someone who consumed my every thought, love and desire. No regrets 21 years later.

I missed out on lots of stuff that other people had until I met DH when I was 17. That's when life began, nothing missing from then on.

Dating really does suck! My dating history has been a total disaster and I long for a stable relationship with my idea of Mr Wonderful. You are really lucky so believe me when I say the grass is no my greener on the other side.

That's lovely rupple

I don't feel like I missed out. I started young and got plenty of assholes in before I married dh at 18. I'd had a childhood watching men waltz in and out of my mother's life, leaving her abused and alone every time. When I fell in love with a solid guy, I married him.

I don't wonder about dating, I do sometimes wonder about an alternative life, single career woman etc. But don't think it would suit me, I was always boy crazy and I wanted my own little happy family - the one I didn't grow up with. So it's all good.

I was single for a long time and never made the most of it. I should have done all the things I wanted to, like travel, study, take up hobbies, instead of endless shit dates in search of a man. So I did miss out, because I was short sighted.

I spent my 20’s having unsatisfying one night stands and flings with mostly men who I wouldn’t look at twice now. I was very needy and in search of what you have. It is not all it’s cracked up to be.

Hand on heart i loved being single ive never needed to be loved!! I love my husband but im not very good at marriage i cause a lot of problems if he ever leaves ill be single of the reat of my life

I was the first of my school friends to get a proper serious long term relationship. Never really did the dating thing. That broke down after 3 years (when I was 24) and at 26 I met my next partner and that lasted 10 years. I've been single 9 years and haven't had a date in 8.

So I didn't miss it when I was younger but boy do I wish I was dating now.