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Did you marry someone great but didn’t love as deeply as you thought you could?

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CallMeCarrie · 06/11/2019 11:25

As the title really.

So many people I’ve met dating have been really great. Decent people who I could probably have fallen in love with over time, but I lost interest along the way and called it a day.

I want to feel like I really and truly adore someone. By this I don’t mean a fairytale romance with constant butterflies, amazing sex and no arguments. I’m very much aware that’s not realistic. I mean your own feelings about someone...that they may irritate you and you may have your rows but you just love the bones of them. Or did you settle with someone you liked, maybe even loved, but weren’t totally and completely ‘in love with’?

I can’t imagine marrying someone I didn’t feel I loved through and through. But the only men I meet are ones that I know I would love but in a less deep way. Not sure if this even makes sense but interested in views!! I’m not getting any younger!!! (35).

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Cator · 07/11/2019 13:52

Hmmm - I'll reiterate what some of the other comments have said - love grows over time.

For me, I'd been spending time with someone I got on really well with for two years, and we'd been sleeping together for a while. Kind, generous, lovely, good fun, similar interests, could spend hours together just laughing. He was clearly romantically interested, but I wasn't, and when he asked "are we together?", I'd said no. Later, I said he should start seeing other people. Aaaand, what do you know, a few months later an old university friend of his (pretty, good job) and he kissed at a party and she asked him out on a date. He told me a few days before the date and then it just clicked for me - I wanted to be with him. Sounds very convenient, I know, but it had just clicked: I had been a total bloody idiot and essentially thrown away a very good thing.

Told him how I felt and begged him not to go on the date and he refused. Completely fair - I saw it from his perspective. On the day of the date he broke it off with her, but told me "this doesn't mean we're in a relationship" - he didn't believe I truly felt the way I said I did.

Anyway, after several months of heartbreak and still feeling the same way, one night we were out for dinner and he said "okay, let's give it a go". I was utterly jubilant. Now, some time later, we're living together, incredibly happy and I love him to bits.

I too had this notion of needing to be in an all-encompassing love from the offset. But ultimately in the end I got to know someone well first and then fall in love. And it feels like because of that, it will last. I'm not saying you should settle for something you're not happy with, but you should give some of these blokes a chance - they might be great once you scratch the surface.

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