Would you take a bullet for your partner?

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Was chatting to a friend who said the way she believes you can tell if you’re with the person you should be with/soulmate is if you feel like you would take a bullet for them.
I said the only people I would take a bullet for is my children, not even my parents, siblings etc who I also love.
she said that that means I don’t truly love my partner. What do you think? I don’t think you can ever unconditionally love anyone except your children

Only for my children.

Nope - only my children

I love DH but he is not essential to my happiness. He's a lot older than me, so realistically I'll probably be spending a good bit of my life without him anyway 🤷🏽‍♀️

Wouldn't tell him this though

No. Nice to be with but not 100 per cent essential. My sons and niece are tho

I did face a slightly similar dilemma. DH and I were in Cancun and we went out on a trip on a small catamaran, we had a local captain to sail it.

I used to sail and windsurf but DH has no experience of the sea. The wind was strong and blowing up and the waves had whitecaps. The captain sailed out about 1mile or more to tack back.

The mast snapped ant the captain asked me to give up my life jacket to wave for help. DH was oblivious to the danger of being swept off and I didn’t have the heart to ask for his jacket, so I gave up mine. We got rescued eventually, obviously as I’m typing this!

No because I'm a mother and my children need me most. Before we have children maybe.
I think my partner would for me though- not just because he loves me but he's just very protective of his family. LIke a lot of men I'm sure.

Nope;I wouldn't leave my kids alone with him because he's a shit parent.

Sadly no I wouldnt (but would for DS)

Hell no, his life is not more precious than mine. TBH I wouldn't take one for one of my children either, I have three children and I am not convinced sacrificing myself for one of them will damage the surviving children less than losing a sibling. Or indeed that sacrificing myself would actually save that child anyway. And DH was told that if anything bad happened when I was pregnant it was more important to save me than the unborn child.

But really it's a ridiculous question, not least because you don't actually know what you what you would do when your life was at risk. Fine ideals tend to disappear when you face the possibility of pain or death.

Nope…if you’d have asked me 13 years ago I’d have said yes. But now I’m a mum and I know I’m the better parent, then no

Nope. Only DD. I wouldn’t leave her without a mum for anything. She’s already lost her dad.