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How did you find love after late twenties/ thirties?

39 replies

marie78280 · 02/05/2025 08:59

Question to the women who found love in their late 20s or even 30s. How did you find your partners? I am turning 28 and after a failed relationship I feel like I missed the boat. Haha.
any success stories?

OP posts:
Lost20211 · 03/05/2025 20:51

Met my lovely husband on Match at 33. Have been together for 7 years.

Ayeayeaye25 · 03/05/2025 20:57

I finally found love when I was about 32 once I had given up ever finding anyone. We met in a nightclub and got on very well, we didn’t start going out initially. But kept bumping into each other and it turned out we had some mutual friends in common.

We have been very happy, had two children and have been married twenty five years this year.

Ilovelurchers · 03/05/2025 21:27

I have had two longish (two years or more) relationships that started in my forties. The first was with a long standing friend I met initially through work - we had been friends for about 18 years, but for the first time both found ourselves single. We got drunk, slept together and it then progressed into a relationship which worked well for a while, though eventually ran it's course.

The second, my current partner, I met on Tinder.

seasonalexpression · 03/05/2025 21:30

I was 29 when I met my partner and we met at work! He was the total opposite of my ex and we have a beautiful life together 🥰
Be open minded about people and forget about your “type on paper”, people will surprise you!! Don’t lose hope🥰

neilyoungismyhero · 03/05/2025 21:32

Divorced at 30. Met present husband over work stuff a year later been married 40 years.

MmeChoufleur · 03/05/2025 21:32

Met at work when I was 33, been married for 16 years.

N27 · 03/05/2025 21:35

Joined a sports club.

I realised later that we had actually matched on OLD but it never got past a few message exchanges as his chat was rubbish 😂

TweetingHurricane · 04/05/2025 14:01

Such a weird post, someone thinking it’s too late in their 20s? People date at every age?

Freeflight · 04/05/2025 16:33

I wouldn't worry at this age. Keep trying hobbies or spending time with people either friends or maybe OLD. If your work do social events then try and go. Just keep building on your friendships and see what happens.
I met my husband at uni, but we divorced in the end so it didn't last and now I'm back to square one in my late 30s.
Ive got a lot of friends in their late 30s who are only just having kids so you have plenty of time to meet someone and settle down in whatever way you want to.

JustGotToKeepOnKeepingOn · 04/05/2025 16:43

28 and you think you’re too late?! Good grief, I’ve heard it all now. You’ve got plenty of time.

Icanttakethisanymore · 04/05/2025 17:06

Met at the gym!

Netcam · 04/05/2025 17:13

Met exDH at 31 through mutual friends. Met DH through OLD aged 42 and still happy together, I'm now 55. Late 20s is most definitely not too old!

MoominMai · 04/05/2025 17:18

OP missed the boat at 27 yet to turn 28?! Hardly.

Weird Q though as unless you’re a teen or students, I imagine all age groups from late 20s onwards find love the same way. OLD, work, friends, gym, social events etc. Only difference is you’re in a better position at the lower age as more potential free/unmarried partners available.

Go live your your beautiful crazy free young life and get off MN! 😂

SpanThatWorld · 04/05/2025 19:44

Canvassing in the local elections May 1998

I was 32

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