Any nice love stories you can tell me? Feeing so down today!

[Freshon]

I’m single and lonely. Please tell me your love stories or nice relationship things to help me see that there’s good out there somewhere...

Anyone... hopeful nudging!

There are always unexpected good things round the corner in life. Hang on in there. I got dumped by text two years ago, fell apart for a bit. Joined an internet dating site that Christmas, bit early in recovery but needing to do something. Met a nice guy on a free week there the same day. I'm 51. Very happy indeed. Keep going, and be kind to yourself

I had a spontaneous proposal with no previous romantic relationship! Quite a surprise but we were best friends so I said yes, and now we are almost 3yrs into marriage with a lovely baby. I’d been single for 8 years and he’d been single even longer. It was literally like something out of a romantic novel, and I’m very far from a romantic person!

I hope you have an equally unexpected but wonderful love story, OP. I was mid-30s when all this happened so was beyond expecting marriage or children, so it can happen!

I met my DP about 4 years ago. Was friends with him, then after a while decided I fancied him. However, at that point he started seeing someone else. This is how my love life normally goes - meet someone, dither around, miss my chance.

Anyway, after a short time, but long enough that he got very attached, she dumped him. I was upset for him because he was hurt but at the same time, yay, he's single again! We waited all of 2 months before we started dating. Been together about two years now. I'm late 40s, he's early 50s. I had pretty much given up on relationships when I met him. So it can happen - but even if it doesn't, life can still be pretty good.

I spent most of my twenties single and being let down. Went online & met someone

I had a pretty dreadful childhood which destroyed my self esteem so ended up in several poor relationships and a nightmare marriage to a grumpy grinch that I finally ended in 2015.
Met DP online in 2018, he's honestly the best thing that ever happened to me apart from my DCs. He is hardworking, sometimes annoying, tactile, funny, and incredibly romantic and although he rarely says he loves me, he shows me every day by the little things he does.
He loves celebrations and was carving pumpkins for Halloween, doesn't need kids around to be one! He has a collection of Christmas jumpers and embraces it wholeheartedly, I've never met a man so keen to put up Christmas decorations and asking why I didn't have more tinsel. I pretend I don't like the tackiness of it all but I've already bought him Elf socks as he couldn't find any last year

Aw love these :)

Fresh on you can be the first person that I've told I'm in love after being widowed an focusing on the kids for years I went online, met a few nice men, met a few idiots, now fallen head over heels for someone and want to shout it from the rooftops that I smile every time I think about him. He is quietly amazing and the kids like him too. I'm so happy and didn't think I would feel this way again, I really hope you have a reason to smile again soon, be that because of a man, friend, job or a good book, we all deserve to be happy, best of luck x

Single for years. Chance meeting with DP. 20+ years he's still the one I'd choose. There are plenty of non cock wombles about honestly

I love the lady up thread who's best friend proposed to her - what a fab story! I also eventually fell in love with a good friend, we became friends when we met on a holiday ... neither of us expected to end up here. I really do think that most people do have relationships in the end - but that probably sounds irritating when you're fed up and a single.

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Awww I 💗these stories gives me hope. Single 4 years now 32 and OLD not for me.

Keep them coming please!

marriednotdead-aww he sounds lovely!

I've got a happy story!

Was married to a man who I now know is a narcissist, 3 children, and he's put us all through hell since I finally left nearly 10 years ago. First relationship after that, when I finally felt ready to trust again, ended abruptly after 3 years when I was ghosted after finding out he had been seeing not one, but several other women during our time together. Met him online.

Decided I really didn't want to be with anyone for a long time and just be happy on my own. And then within weeks a friend put me in contact with his friend who was also going through a rubbish time. I was still determined I didn't want to get romantically involved with anyone, and it's a cliche but you meet someone when you're not looking.

He is the most kindest, loyal and loving man I could ever have dreamt of meeting. Seriously never imagined I could be in a relationship with someone so patient, forgiving and a downright proper nice bloke. I have my moments sometimes because of previous abusive relationships and he doesn't ever falter, he's always there for me.

Love him so much, and feel so fortunate every day to have him in my life. And I'm not normally a gushy, romantic person. I tend to be rather cynical about relationships.

Sorry if I've rambled, but there really are good men out there. I've got myself a keeper and I can't believe it! A nice love story...and I'm in it.

I thought I'd never love again after my husband of 15 years did a midlife crisis about turn, had an affair and left.
I went online 5 months later just looking for some fun dates to distract me.
Five dates in and I just instantly clicked with someone. I knew I needed to see him again.
Two years later and we're still going strong. He is amazingly kind, gentle, affectionate and patient. All the things I hadn't realised I was missing. We tell each other all the time how lucky we are and if it hadn't been for the excruciating heartbreak I never would have met him or learned the lessons about myself I needed to be in this relationship.

All the things I hadn't realised I was missing

@Spritesobright That's exactly it! You don't realise how it should be until you meet that person and find out how wrong previous relationships were.

I'm fairly certain my dp and I will get married in the future but if ever it didn't work out, he's set the bar very high. I now know what I want, deserve and can have, in a life partner.

If it hadn't been for the excruciating heartbreak I never would have met him
What seems like the worst thing ever can actually turn out to be the best thing that ever happened.

More importantly @Freshon why the post? Are you OK?

And congratulations @ignoringthechoc !! That's a really nice love story Enjoy!

I have one. I got divorced and was dating a while. Had a rebound relationship which was awful and really damaged my opinion of men.

Then I went to online sites and dated a lot of frogs. I had steered away from tinder as was looking for more than a hookup. A close friend told me there were some nice guys on there (him being one of them - but not remotely fanciable to me, bless him!).

So, I joined tinder and out of the hundreds of desperados, a lovely guy swiped right. We chatted, and talked more and more. Within a couple of weeks, we had developed feelings for each other. We met, and straight away knew we had each met our "one". He is laying beside me now. We are engaged and planning our wedding. Our families think we are so well matched and are delighted for us (except his gran, but she hates anyone he dates because no-one is good enough for "her boy". Luckily, he gives no shits what his gran thinks, and the rest of his family have told her to wind her neck in because they adore me ).

It will very likely happen for you. What I would say is, cast your net wider than your "type". I had always looked for tall, dark and handsome. My DP is the same height as me, and I bloody love it. I can't imagine why I ever thought height was an issue. I fancy him more than I have ever fancied anyone and I hate to think I would have missed out on the love of my life, because of such a small thing.

I met my dp online just over three years ago. He works abroad a fair bit (or did pre-Covid!). Anyway he had to go to Switzerland when we were about nine months into the relationship. Normally he goes at the start of the week and he’s home by the weekend or during the weekend but this time he needed to stay for the weekend. So he invited me to fly out to meet him. It’s been a dream of mine to go to Switzerland so of course I jumped at the chance!
I got on the train to go to the city I was meeting him in and was texting him to let him know that and the time I’d get there. He told me the name of the hotel and the directions to it from the train station and he’d be along a little while after me. So I got off the train and out into the street, I was looking around me trying to get my bearings and remember his directions. I knew I had to cross the street so I walked up to the traffic lights and was waiting to cross the street, looking around me taking it all in when I looked to the other side and there he was waiting for me to notice him. I wanted to run across and into his arms but I had to wait for the damn green man to appear!
It was such a special moment and I will never, ever forget it.
Some day your ship will come in OP, and it will be worth waiting for ❤️

@GotOutAlive thanks for asking, I’m ok just quite upset today. I’m 35 and feel like I’ve always wanted that special someone in my life and yet it’s never really happened. I’ve had relationships and some very happy but none have stuck. Just feel a bit hopeless, I’ve felt like this for a good year or so now. I’d love to share my days with someone and my home.

What I would say is, cast your net wider than your "type"
@SirChing totally agree. My man is blonde, blue eyed and a tiny bit taller than me. I'd always gone for much taller, dark haired men - would totally not have given him a second glance if I'd seen him out or online. Not because he's not good looking, just never gone for that 'type' before.

Now can't get enough of him

@Freshon I forgot to put in my pp, I am 44 and DP is 42. Please don't feel it won't happen for you. I truly hope you feel better soon. Between my divorce and DP, I sometimes felt like you do. I decided to actively enjoy being single, largely because unless they are exceptional, most men are really not worth the hassle. And then one day, I found my exceptional (for me). There is no reason you won't find your exceptional for you too.

Also, in their later 30s and early 40s, loads of people get divorced from their first marriages. So the dating field becomes wider again.

Don't give up hope

Life can change very quickly. Ten years ago I was unhappily married no utterly miserable, I was 31 and felt I would be on the shelf if I ended things and never have a family. But I had to end things, it is better to be alone than lonely in a relationship - don't forget that.

I met my amazing DH shortly afterwards, fell in love and got married again at 34. I am 40 now and we have three fantastic children, honestly I feel like the luckiest woman alive. My life is so different now abs I'm so happy.

Don't write yourself off, tomorrow could be the day it all changes.