How Many Times Do We Truly Fall in Love?
Came across this recently. Supposedly, most people fall in love 2.5 times in their life, according to an essay by Doug Coupland. That's true for me. In my early 20s, it was an ill-conceived affair with an older man and in my late 20s, an older (by 4 years), grumpy dentist (or maybe that came later). Thirty years later, we're still together. I was always taught that there's only one true love in your life, but, like the stats, I've had two. (Men believe more in a third love, it's said. ) I sometimes wonder if there's one more (who doesn't when you've been married forever?), but I knew my husband was it, the night I met him. There was just something so right about him. It may have taken us 10 torturous years to get down the aisle, and another 15 to 20 to get it right, but we'in a good place now, and we even kept it together long enough to conceive a son, 12 years ago, something I could never see happening when we met in the early '80s.