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At what age did you find your happy loved up ending?

203 replies

ResetandRestart · 03/07/2024 17:56

Just that really.
How old were you when you found your person and found real love?

Just interested....

OP posts:
SnowFrogJelly · 04/07/2024 01:02

46

Charliecatpaws · 04/07/2024 01:07

Tarquina · 03/07/2024 18:25

I found him when I was 40, he was 33. I did not know I was capable of loving someone as much as I loved him. We only had three and a half years together when he suddenly developed cancer and died weeks later. I have never loved anyone since. That was 25 years ago.

I'm so sorry for your loss

Bleurfghjj · 04/07/2024 01:10

33

LifeInTheRaw · 04/07/2024 01:27

48.... and twenty plus years later, we even more in love, and both still can't wait to cuddle, have fun, and talk for hours about anything and everything, and we still making plans for an ever brighter future.
Almost 70 now, but inside, I feel like 17, and around him, I feel like I've become the woman I was meant to be.... before him, I felt the real me was never allowed to develop....

OneTitWonder · 04/07/2024 01:35

I was 36. I'm 55 now and we're still going strong.

CrunchyCarrot · 04/07/2024 01:46

40 - still together nearly 3 decades later.

Jackette · 04/07/2024 01:52

30 and together 27 years so far.

JeanMarie · 04/07/2024 02:22
  1. I'd been married and divorced twice by the time I was 36 (could write a book). I'm now 64, engaged and never been happier. What cemented it for me was when we went on our first holiday. I had been worried how I'd cope being 24/7 with him as I'd been single so long. As it turned out ....he tested + for Covid our first night and me the next day! It was before the vaccinations and advice then was to isolate. Far from being the worst holiday ever it was actually the best! We were holed up for a week, living on toast and jam and watching re-runs of Still Game. It felt so natural and easy to just pull together and make the best of it. He's just a pure joy to be around .
AuntieMarys · 04/07/2024 02:39

Still together at 66.

fridaynight1 · 04/07/2024 02:50

26 . The day I got married.. We’ve been together for 40 years but our wedding day was the day that cemented it.

stayathomer · 04/07/2024 02:53

23, 20 years ago, housemates and friends first

SkiingIsHeaven · 04/07/2024 03:35
  1. Been together 32 years and still happy.
DracoDormiensNumquamTittilandum · 04/07/2024 05:15

i was 38, he was 46. Fell in love 2 years after we met and got married 3 years after that. Finally experienced movie love ❤️

workoutlife · 04/07/2024 05:23

@Bewareofthisonetoo - Would love to hear your story. :)

Beth98 · 04/07/2024 05:44

ResetandRestart · 03/07/2024 17:56

Just that really.
How old were you when you found your person and found real love?

Just interested....

15 - still together nearly 11 years later, and we've just added a baby to the mix! As happy together as we were at the beginning - if not happier - and I wouldn't change him for anything!

Meadowfinch · 04/07/2024 05:46

At 45 when I had my ds. 😊

In terms of a partner, I haven't, but I'm happy so it doesn't matter.

VotesAndGoats · 04/07/2024 05:50

Not yet at 44. But I've had several relationships. I don't think I'd be with someone if I didn't think it was the happily ever after now. But am increasingly more relaxed about the early stages of dating now I've stopped being so hell bent on finding the one to procreate with. While also knowing who not to go for. Done more work on myself.

trimma · 04/07/2024 05:54

22, we were together for 23 years until he died.

Thought that would be it, but completely unexpectedly fell in love again at 47.

AccidentallyWesAnderson · 04/07/2024 05:56

Just before my 41st birthday.

RoséProsecco · 04/07/2024 05:57

52 & had a couple of decade-long relationships but both ended unhappily.

Been single 5 years now, have a successful career, 2 children, great family & friends.

Tried online dating & found it pretty awful, also trying singles social nights, speed dating.

Can't see myself meeting someone now, which I feel sad about, but beginning to accept it.

Realdeal1 · 04/07/2024 05:57

43, met as friends, dated for a bit casually, broke up due to bad timing, reconnected 3 years later as its most certainly the happiest I've been.

bringonyourwreckingball · 04/07/2024 06:00

Not yet and I am 49 so probably never. Married for 18 years to a man who turned out to be a compulsive liar who used prostitutes throughout our marriage so whatever I thought that was, it was never love.
Still live in hope but can’t see it happening now.

ArcticBells · 04/07/2024 06:05

Given up at 62

andfinallyhereweare · 04/07/2024 06:16

I don’t think everyone finds it happy married or not.

BCBird · 04/07/2024 06:36

I'm.54-still haven't haven't yet

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