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writes:Is anyone else's love life this bad? I've had 6 relationships, 2 only lasted a few months and 1 of them 2 was rebound. The others lasted 8 months even though I knew something wasn't right. None of them lasted a year. I am 26, first relationship was when I was 17, is this normal? Reply to this Question
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reader, malvern +, writes (11 March 2013):
 There is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It just happens that the ones you have met have turned out to be unsuitable for you. There's a lot of truth in that saying,'You have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find your handsome prince!'. Stop worrying about it, enjoy yourself and one day you will meet somebody who you will feel 'right' about.
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reader, Apollo44  +, writes (11 March 2013):
Just be happy and learn from each relationship. Dont worry about the time frame.Its all part of the journey.
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reader, anonymous, writes (11 March 2013): Yeah it's perfectly normal. I don't know why you would consider that bad to be honest.I have one friend who has been in long term relationships of 2+ years since he was 13. Never has a single phase of more than a month or two and never dated around or anything always ended up having a new girl out of his social group straight away.I've had a mixed bag, some long term, some short term and a hell of a lot of one night stands.My fiancée had only one boyfriend of 6 months before she met me and we're together a while now.I have another friend who has never had a relationship with a woman at all and I'm pretty sure he's still a virgin too. I'm pretty sure he's asexual as he's never shown an interest in anyone male or female.I have another friend who has only ever had short term flings and never actively pursued a woman for a relationship.Yet another I know who had a boyfriend of 8 years, had a child with him and has only dated in the short term casual for about the past 5 years with no intention of another relationship.I have another friend his only experiences are with prostitutes.My point is OP, it's all normal.I know the social convention is to find the love of your life, mr. right and have a long loving relationship, get married by the time you're a certain age or have a history of successful long term relationships.But it's not the 1940's anymore, rom coms are full of shit with their supposed depressed loner girl finally meeting her dream guy because in this day and age OP, we all have very varied experiences of dating and relationships. There is no such thing as abnormal, it's merely a personal opinion.The only thing I see here is that you're continuing relationships even though you know something isn't right?Then maybe you're not ruthless enough OP and waste your time on dead end guys for too long?
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