Meet the Other Phone. A phone that grows with your child.

Meet the Other Phone.
A phone that grows with your child.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Relationships

Mumsnet has not checked the qualifications of anyone posting here. If you need help urgently or expert advice, please see our domestic violence webguide and/or relationships webguide. Many Mumsnetters experiencing domestic abuse have found this thread helpful: Listen up, everybody

How many times have you been in love?

66 replies

KnittingSocks · 23/02/2020 19:04

I'm in my 30's and been in love three times so far. Currently single and wondering how many more loves I might have. I hope it's just one more and it will be the love of my life!

Tell me, how many loves have you had so far?

OP posts:
GreeboIsMySpiritAnimal · 23/02/2020 22:02

That should read: "the second broke mine"!

MummySharn · 23/02/2020 22:05

Once, it didn’t last

OhTheRoses · 23/02/2020 22:08

I thought I'd been in love twice. And then I met DH, oh about 30 or so years ago and can say with my hand on my heart it's just once.

lilgreen · 23/02/2020 22:09
  1. Twice.
TheoneandObi · 23/02/2020 22:11

Twice. First one and last (I hope 💕)

buckeejit · 23/02/2020 22:19

Thrice. Third time's a charm ❤️

Ughmaybenot · 23/02/2020 22:21

Four. Three long term relationships, one complete head over heels daftness with a colleague. I’m 26

PorpentinaScamander · 23/02/2020 22:28

Im mid 30s and been in love twice. The second was, and always will be, the love of my life. Sadly for one reason or another it didn't work. Even after we split he said he still loves me too. Sucks knowing we love each other but it won't work.

ShatnersWig · 23/02/2020 23:15

I had three girlfriends between the ages of 16 and 36. One for two years, one for three years and one for ten years. Been single for ten years and not had a date in eight.

First love was killed in a car accident. Not sure I loved the other two as much, or in the same way but I did love them.

I don't think there will be a fourth, sadly.

Songsofexperience · 23/02/2020 23:57

Twice. One devastating (in fact downright toxic) first love in my teens. Then a couple of boyfriends but mostly fun crushes. Then DH for the last 20 years. That romantic feeling sadly has gone as we've drifted apart. I've told him but he won't accept it... I don't know if I'll love again. Who knows...

Songsofexperience · 24/02/2020 00:01

Flowers for the heartbroken and lonely out there. It hurts.

Doodlesquah1 · 24/02/2020 00:01

Once but unfortunately it didn’t work out

Zaza1414 · 24/02/2020 00:01

Twice, my ex husband (I still love, but I'm not in love with him)
Then... a friend of my parents, I fell head over heals for, it didn't work.

user1471449295 · 24/02/2020 00:01

I’m in my 30’s and have been in love once. I honestly don’t think I will feel that way about anyone else again.

TheDuchessofDukeStreet · 24/02/2020 00:04

Once, properly. With the DP I’m with now. We have the same outlook and tastes and he is the kindest, most generous man I know. I’m very lucky.

TinDogTavern · 24/02/2020 00:06

Two, plus two I thought were but with hindsight one definitely wasn't and one probably wasn't.

50s and single, doubt very much there'll be any more. That's made me feel unexpectedly sad.

Chocolateandchats · 24/02/2020 00:06

I thought I’d been in love 3 times and then I met DH and realised what love really is. There was something different from day 1 and 16 years later I still feel it. So cheesy but true.

Songsofexperience · 24/02/2020 00:08

tindog my MiL finally found love at 65. Don't give up just yet.

tunnocksreturns2019 · 24/02/2020 00:08

Once. He was wonderful. He died.

NiceLegsShameAboutTheFace · 24/02/2020 00:10

Once. And I'd love to know that he's happy Blush

Charmatt · 24/02/2020 00:33

Once - my first and only partner.......

.....we met at 17 and are still together 30 years later.

IdblowJonSnow · 24/02/2020 00:46

I've loved six boyfriends in my life but loved three of them more deeply and for a longer time. The third I am married to and the first two I often think of even though we weren't quite right for each other.
Always time for more love in your life OP!

DecemberSnow · 24/02/2020 00:48

3 times ....

Including the relationship im in now....

Ritascornershop · 24/02/2020 00:59

Hmm, I’ve had 3 serious relationships. First guy I lived with, loved him lots, but not in love. I didn’t feel a spark with him (I was too young really, in retrospect a decent man and I should have stuck with him). Exh, not in love as it turns out I didn’t know him properly. He turned out to have a really nasty side. I was perhaps in love with who I thought he was. Third fella, love of my life, but he let me down very badly and we’re probably still in love with each other but I can’t see how I’d get past what he did. But it was grand thinking he was the bee’s knees for over a decade.

maa1992 · 24/02/2020 01:01

One massive infatuation that I thought was love for years. However, it wasn't reciprocated so I can't say it was genuine love.

Then I met my husband, now I've found an unconditional real love.

I'll say once, though for 6 years of my life I definetly did think I was in love but now I realise what real love is.