Would you still choose your partner in another life? I need to know if love like that exists

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Lately, I’ve been seeing too many posts and stories online and around me about people treating their partners with so much cruelty, disrespect, and emotional neglect. It’s honestly terrifying. The way some people hurt the ones they’re supposed to love just makes me scared of the whole concept of marriage.

I keep wondering… is there anyone out there who would genuinely choose their spouse again in another life? Not out of habit or comfort or obligation, but out of love pure, intentional, soft love. Someone who still looks at their partner and thinks, “You. Always you.”

I know no relationship is perfect, but is that kind of deep, respectful, loyal bond even real? Or is that just something people romanticize? I’m not trying to be dramatic, I just need a little hope right now.

Comments

  1. TurbulentWeb635 Avatar

    I would be with my partner and love him in every life if I could. I wish I could be so lucky to find him again. The deep loving, respectful bond is very real and I’m blessed enough to experience it everyday. Even if he had nothing in this life, I would still sit and break bread with him.
    Admittedly, the scary posts I always see online abt bad relationships do make me nervous sometimes. I’ve decided to stop consuming all that content and allow my relationship to flourish. It’s been 3 years and I can’t wait to live the rest of my life with him

  2. AlsoNotaSpider Avatar

    100%. One day I met a person that made me question every bad generalization I’d ever made about humanity as a whole because he is fundamentally good. True love comes with a level of trust and respect that you wouldn’t imagine is possible.

  3. BGOG83 Avatar

    17 years married today, 2 years together.

    I’d do it all again in a heartbeat. Wouldn’t even think twice about it.

    We’ve been through the highest of highs and the lowest of lows and we always do it together no matter how good or bad life is at the moment. She never doubts that we’ll be fine.

  4. EmbracingTheWorld Avatar

    You have to remember that people only post when they need help with a problem, the same reason people mostly leave only bad reviews and not the good ones, because people who had no issues will just go about their day. Trust me, I started feeling this way too after seeing a number of disturbing posts, but I had to ground myself and remember that reddit is only a small part of the world’s population.

    To answer your question, yes. I will always choose my husband in this life and the next. It could only be him. My FIL and MIL actually celebrated their 35th anniversary and he left her a note that said, “If I could redo this life, I would always choose you.”

  5. rhou17 Avatar

    People are the product of their environments – my partner “in another life” isn’t going to be the same person. True love isn’t the product of “the right person”, so much finding someone who makes you feel the effort of a relationship’s worth it. 
    Romanticizing fantasy ideals of “that perfect someone” puts the blame of a failed relationship outside of your control, when ultimately every failed relationship should be a learning experience. If not what you could have done better, communicated better, at least what could you have identified as problematic earlier before committing?

    I’ll challenge the very notion of “you, always you” – isn’t that the same thing as being literally blinded by love? That’s the notion that leads people to stay with horribly abusive partners long past the reasonable exit point. 

    Love is a chore. Love takes work. With the right person, it’s worth it.

  6. ramenchips Avatar

    yes. absolutely, no hesitation. it even occurred to me three years into our relationship – i was having an existential crisis and was crying and told him, “i just hope in the next life we find each other again,” and reiterated them in my wedding vows when we got married a few months ago. i genuinely don’t think there will ever be enough time with him, no matter how many lifetimes we manage to find each other.

    the thing is, i’m not some huge romanticist either, but he is utterly my person. it is real.

  7. EfficiencyNo6377 Avatar

    I know I’m only 2 years into my relationship, but what I have is real, pure love and I absolutely would choose my partner in another life. We’re best friends. Living together is so incredibly easy. We are always on the same page and we finish each other’s sentences. We do goofy shit and don’t take life too seriously. We are there for each other when things get tough. We laugh so hard that we cry. I’m crying just typing this because I don’t know what I did to deserve a love like this. But love exists and it’s real.

  8. C1sko Avatar

    I would choose my wife in a million lives.

  9. ta_beachylawgirl Avatar

    100%. He is the healthiest relationship I’ve ever been in and I’m also his healthiest relationship. We were best friends for 3 years before we realized that we were in love with each other- we have such a pure, respectful, loving, and silly relationship. We always find new ways of making each other laugh and smile, we both find ways of showing affection for each other and showing each other how much we care. He’s truly the best man I know. We both feel at home with each other and it’s such a calming feeling. It’s a feeling that is foreign to both of us, but being in such a kind, pure, and loving relationship has been incredibly healing for both of us. At this point, we know each other so well that we finish each other’s sentences and we don’t even have to ask for anything because we know what the other wants or needs. Even when he and I were just friends, we always had such a deep connection and were always so protective of each other and that never changed when we became partners. We both have said that we’d find each other in every single lifetime because the love we share and have with each other is a once in a lifetime sort of love and we are going to spend the rest of our lives giving each other this kind of love (and it’s a love that we always deserved but never received).

  10. virtualchoirboy Avatar

    In less than a week, my wife and I will have been a couple for 36 years. In a couple of months, we’ll celebrate our 30th wedding anniversary. We started with very little and have built an amazing life together. Two kids, both out of college and moved out now, a house nearly paid off, a comfortable life, and a genuine love and respect for one another. I have no problem saying I’d choose her again even if I didn’t know how it would turn out. It’s like Tom Cruise in Jerry Maguire – she completes me. Heck, even our friends have commented how well we work together.

    So yea, that kind of love exists.

  11. trolldoll26 Avatar

    Yes. I’ll say it in a corny, rom-com way, but yes, a thousand times yes.

    We met when we were freshman in college, and he was my very first boyfriend. I didn’t date in high school and I wasn’t really looking for a boyfriend when suddenly we met.

    He’s one of the kindest people I have ever met. He’s intelligent, dependable, thoughtful, and I truly can’t imagine my life without him.

    We’ve been together for over 15 years and I’m thankful that we found each other when we both weren’t looking.

    I see how tough dating is for so many people and I commend everyone for doing their best in trying to find someone.

  12. LeanderT Avatar

    Yes, without a doubt.

    14 years of marriage, feels like we got married just yesterday

  13. QuestionSign Avatar

    I’ve been thinking about this actually and yeah I would easily. My husband is pretty much everything I need in a partner.

  14. kittenswithtattoos Avatar

    yes. we love each other with every inch of our being. even still, we talk on the phone at least 4 times every day when he’s at work, sometimes just to say hi, hear each other’s voice, or say that we saw a cool bird. i still wait excitedly for him to get home.

    we met on the 25th of january (10+ years ago), and by the 28th of that month we knew we should be together. we’ve genuinely never fought and truly don’t understand couples who don’t communicate.

    i think somehow we’d find each other, as us finding each other was absolutely by happenstance. he joined okcupid to drunkenly take personality quizzes, and i joined it to get laid.

    he wasn’t what i wanted. but he was what i needed. i wanted a doctor or a lawyer or stockbroker so i could keep living the life i grew up with, as i had become quite the fan. but i ended up with a truck driver from the midwest.

    and good god, i couldn’t be happier.

  15. michaelmoby Avatar

    If you wouldn’t choose them all over again, then they shouldn’t be your partner this time around, plain and simple. I wouldn’t want to go through another life if it meant my partner wasn’t part of it, that I didn’t get to choose them all over again. If you have a single doubt whether you would, then you simply aren’t TRULY in love with them.

  16. Big-Significance3604 Avatar

    I’d choose him today, tomorrow, anywhere, anytime.
    We’ve been together 35 years. Almost married 30.
    The things that people really romanticize is breakfast in bed, sex for hours, flowers on a random day, etc. But what true romance is coming home every day to a kiss. Being responsible and attentive to each others’ needs. Finding time to be together and have fun. Laughing with each other! Cleaning up each other’s puke! 😂
    That is romantic. We have not been perfect. But, we have never given up.

  17. SuitableCamel6129 Avatar

    My ex and I divorced because he wants children and I don’t. I want him to be a father. I got to spend 10 amazing years with him and I hope we get to meet in another life.

  18. Physical_Complex_891 Avatar

    I would choose my husband in every life, again and again without any hesitation. He is my best friend and the love of my life.

  19. Duyenieee Avatar

    100% . So grateful to find him in this lifetime.

  20. girasolpr Avatar

    I would choose him again without a doubt. He’s the best man I’ve ever been with and I’m looking forward to growing old with him.

  21. yeahokaysure1231 Avatar

    100% I’d choose him in every life. This man has taken care of me for the last decade and half, put a roof over my head the last 10 years working a job he hates while I stay home because he loves me THAT much. Our relationship isn’t and never was perfect, but he is my best friend and I’ve always known since day 1 that I will never love anyone the way I’ve loved him all these years. We’ve been together for about 14 years and it just gets better and better. I can’t wait to grow old with him. He’s my best friend for ever and ever ❤️

  22. CV2nm Avatar

    My last relationship, no. He was a painful experience I didn’t need. My relationship before yes, although it ended, it was fun, adventurous, caring and easy. We ended over kids talk but I’d choose to still have had that at the time if I had the choice. Not now though. We’ve both changed since then. We’re still close and in contact but I’m not sure if we’d be able to create what we had before now. So Id chose to still have done it but I wouldn’t chose it now. I loved him and a part of me always will.

  23. snuggleyporcupine Avatar

    Absolutely I would

  24. kykyLLIka Avatar

    Yes. 20+ years together. We were friends first, learned quite a lot about each other before we became a couple. Many ups& downs, some heartaches & difficult periods, lots of personal growth & learning , especially on communicating effectively. We both had or developed some bad habits along the way & had to unlearn them. Lots of choices made. Both briefly worked with a therapist to get better at communicating & not letting our imagination jump to the worst case scenarios.

    After everything, I’d still choose them, over & over.

  25. Mother_of_Brains Avatar

    I think there’s a bias on the stuff you see online. Happy people don’t have to come here and share how happy they are. They just enjoy life. People who are struggling look for connection and support, so they are more vocal about their lives. I am not judging them for asking for support, I think this is a beautiful thing the internet can offer, even if it’s just a stranger on the internet, having someone to share the load, gain perspective on your issues, is good.

    That said, I have a wonderful relationship with my husband. We love and respect each other deeply. Even when we disagree, it’s not a fight. We NEVER yell or say hurtful things to each other. When things are hard, we talk, give each other space and try to understand the other’s perspective. When things are good, which is most of the time, we support each other, laugh together, cuddle, take care of one another in small ways. Our relationship is not perfect, because we are imperfect people. But I don’t want to change anything about it. Even with our imperfections, we make each other happy, feel loved and supported. I am a better person because of him. And I believe he’s a better person because of me.

    I feel so incredibly lucky to having met someone I feel so connected to. Someone I can offer my whole heart and know he will take it and take good care of it. Someone I can love my own way and who loves me for who I am. Someone I want to love for the rest of my life, and someone I would choose to love again on a heartbeat.

    But see? This is the first time I take to the internet to say how much I love my husband. So you won’t see a lot of perspective like that out here. It doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist, though.

  26. thisismeritehere Avatar

    I tell my wife all the time I wish I could go back in time and do this whole life over again with her, but have even more time together. She makes me a better person and I wish our time together could be infinite

  27. TJJ97 Avatar

    I don’t know of anyone else I’d ever want to go through life’s ups and downs with than my wife

  28. Jonseroo Avatar

    EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. FOREVER.

    Unless there’s a big age gap. Like, I meet them when they’re 80 and I’m 12. That would be gross.

    But I don’t care what genders we are. Or species.

  29. matthewLCH Avatar

    I would, always

  30. killdagrrrl Avatar

    YES. I’d look for him in every lifetime. I’d hate to live another life and not have him around

  31. Wonderful_Horror7315 Avatar

    Absolutely! The only thing I’d change about him is meeting him sooner.

  32. significantmorsel Avatar

    100%. I’d choose him everytime. I had an eyebrow wax appt yesterday, he came with me just for the drive, to chat nonsense and just be together.

    Respect is absolutely a must in relationships, in my opinion. I genuinely want to know what he thinks, his opinion, his thoughts and musings. I sometimes ask him about stuff just to hear him talk to me. Of course respect goes both ways, he makes me feel respected and cared for. He doesn’t palm me off with mouth promises that have nothing behind them. He takes me seriously, and we also have great fun together.

    He’s such a beautiful person to me, I want to be near him and experience life with him. Doesn’t matter if it’s taking a drive, watching a movie, enjoying a meal, mundane life in general, I just want to do it with him. Chores don’t seem half as bad, because it is working towards a better life for us, a cleaner house for us to enjoy, a happy space for us to be silly.

    I was in an awful relationship for a long time, and didn’t think this kind of love was out in the world. That people just put up with one another. But I’m happily wrong. We are immature together but can also fake adulting to handle the mortgage and budget. We are daft and fling socks at each other and start games that end up with us laughing so hard I snort. He truly listens to me. He doesn’t act like I’m a burden to him. Or that he ‘has’ to spend time with me. He wants to. He makes the effort. He genuinely wants to be around me, has never rolled his eyes at me. Doesn’t make me feel stupid for getting lost when I go out because my spacial awareness is absolute zero.

    I can, and do, talk to him about everything. If I’m annoyed about something that wouldn’t matter to him, he gives it the importance I do. He stands up for me, every time. He was there through a very hard part of life for me, and he showed me exactly who he is.

    He makes my life so much better. After almost 5 years together, I still run to the door when he gets home from work, I giggle each night I go to sleep next to him, I truly feel incredibly lucky I get to share life with him.

  33. Even_Regular5245 Avatar

    I absolutely would. We met later in life and I would love to have the prospect of more time with him.

  34. evielstar Avatar

    Yep yep yep! 💯%
    Adore the man with every fibre of my being

  35. Dangerous_One_81 Avatar

    Hell yeah. Sexy ass.

  36. epanek Avatar

    Yes. I’m 58 and met my wife in 2017. I tell her all the time I want to die before she does. I’m not strong enough to survive her. I don’t think I want to.

  37. t49a Avatar

    I would. And I believe in love like that exists. In this life I had to choose my own life for a while to be able to be a good partner again – meanwhile he has unchosen me – don’t think I’d be chosen in another life.

    I’m sure someone will and would!

  38. DannyMckMusic Avatar

    Idk man for me it’s her or no one and I mean that. I don’t think there is anyone that I’m more compatible with, feel like I’ve totally hit the jackpot.

  39. scrubliminal Avatar

    “…and when we depart this world,
    I will follow you to the next.
    As the sun chases the moon,
    I will pursue you into eternity.”

    A portion of my wedding vows. There is far more depth to that in the context of our relationship. But I do know whatever afterlife there may or may not be. I will follow her.

  40. TeishAH Avatar

    There’s not enough time in 1 life to live with my husband. I would choose him over and over and over again. My love for him is like a completely separate living thing inside me that I carry with me, if I could separate it and put it down it would continue to exist for eternity it feels. It’s like my life is just a small life but my love is so much bigger than I. Id live a million lifetimes with him, he’s my other half, my best friend, my partner. We’re so similar and we got each others back. We enjoy all the same things (with mild differences because we’re different, separate individuals) but generally our temperament and attitudes and goals and lifestyles are the same. We just enjoy being with each other. It’s like I can’t even fully experience something until I go home and share it with him lol there’s just an overall calmness about his presence. He’s my mate, we’re bonded. I feel so much peace just knowing he’s with me in person or just throughout life.

    The best way I can describe it is like religion. You know how people just have faith and believe in god and know they’re living their life right and everything’s okay because they think they know about what’s true and what’s right? That’s how I feel. I don’t even question my love. It’s not an obligation or choice I’m making everyday. It’s just the way it is. It’s just my way of life. It’s natural to me. It’s second nature. Loving my husband and sticking by his side is just the way I function now, it’s a core part of how I go about my day and my life. I support him and his decision with unwavering loyalty. He doesn’t even need to explain why he makes a decision about life because I trust him to know why he did. I don’t need to hear why. Loving him and supporting him is just the way I live, and he does too.

  41. Reflection_Secure Avatar

    With no hesitation at all.

    I hesitated a lot this time around. I had a lot of trauma and just didn’t think I deserved him. Hell, I don’t think anyone deserves him, he’s amazing! But we’re perfect together. I’m disabled and he is there for me in all of my difficult times (surgeries, doctor’s appointments, flare ups, etc). I try my damndest to be there for him in the same way.

    He’s the most important thing in my world. Even if we were in a different world, I’m sure that would still be true.

  42. Manic_Squirrel Avatar

    Absolutely, without a doubt.  One life with him does not seem like enough time and I hope that we will have some type of connection that goes beyond death.  Meeting him has me wondering if there is a higher or spiritual  power that is somehow involved in our lives because it rattles my brain to think how our lives became intertwined and how the timing worked out so perfectly.  I love this man so much and I can feel he has the same love for me.  He loves me exactly how I’ve always desired to be loved, he is my ultimate comfort and safety.  He is a gentle soul.  He has healed so many of my wounds by simply listening to me and seeing me for who I am.  He talks to me, he’s vulnerable and honest.  He knows me as his equal and respects me.  I trust him with every fiber of my being.  I know he’ll never stray, he is so devoted to me and our daughter because he wants to be and not because he feels any sort of begrudging obligation.  I just feel so lucky everyday.  I love waking up next to him and no matter how hard my day is, knowing I’ll fall asleep in his arms makes everything better.  Life is just so fun with him and it’s an adventure I wouldn’t trade for anything.  No amount of wealth or power could pull me from him.  The love I feel for this man is unmatched and I can’t imagine it ever dying.  

  43. dmbmcguire Avatar

    1000%. Married 30 years and hope for another 30 at least. He is the best partner I could ever hope for. He is honestly one of the best people I have ever met. He is completely selfless. I am very lucky and sometimes have to be reminded of it, so thank you for that.

  44. unix_name Avatar

    I wouldn’t trade her for anything. I would give my life for her. Yes, I would pick her earlier in my life, in another life.

  45. subiegal2013 Avatar

    Another life? I think we were together in another life and found each again. When we met I was inexplicably drawn to him. Engaged after 3 months, married 6 months later. Happier than pigs in 💩. (Oh, I forgot to say…I was on a date with someone else when I met him. I guess some things are just meant to be)

  46. imfamousoz Avatar

    The idea of being separated from my husband is horrifying to me. I hope with all my heart that I do get to choose him in another life. And another and another til Time’s end. Even when we aren’t interacting I crave being near him.

  47. jac0777 Avatar

    Listen, I in no way obsess over my wife or go out of my way to do romantic gestures, nor do we spend all day every day holding eachother looking in eachother eyes telling eachother how infatuated we are with eachother. – however, she grounds me, she betters me, she knows what’s best for my life even if I didn’t really know that in the first place. She’s been wildly patient with me, she’s sexually perfect, – yes. I would pick her in a second life in an instant. We’re not perfect, we have disagreements etc, but we have such an innate understanding of eachother that arguments rarely last more than a few hours before we both have apologized and gotten out our frustration.

    We have 3 amazing kids all under 5, this is the point in which we’re supposed to be the most stress and our relationship should be at its worst, and yet we’re more in love now than we were when we first got together.

    Love like this exists, even if it doesn’t present itself in the movie-esque romance version of a perfect relationship.

  48. ogunhe Avatar

    After a 12+ year relationship, January 2023 my partner came to me and told me we should break up…Started pushing me away with words and deeds.
    This was the mother of our two dead babies that didn’t make it out of the womb. It took me 32 years of my life to find her.

    We were perfect for each other.
    It was difficult to tell where she began and I ended (and vice versa).
    We were from totally different backgrounds and cultures and some of the members of her family would do or say shitty things to try and break us up.

    I found out last year on Dia De Los Muertos, that she passed. Cancer.
    Her family knew…She didn’t want me to know.
    We lived 15 mins away from each other after we broke up (I later found out).
    Had I known this I would have gone to see her.
    I would give ANYTHING to have her alive and hate my guts as opposed to have ended the way we did. Needless to say, I wasn’t invited to any celebration of life ceremony.

    It was the stuff of fairytales. I won’t ever love anyone else the way I love her. In any world/planet, solar system, galaxy, quadrant, I don’t think or expect I’ll ever find another “my person”.

    So this thing you’re asking, from my perspective,

    Be VERY careful what you wish for. You might get it, and then get it taken away. What comes after may not be something that you can cope with.

  49. vyletteriot Avatar

    In a heartbeat.

  50. mac-thedruid Avatar

    1000%

    I would fall in love with her over and over for eternity. No trial or tribulation could keep me from reaching her as long as I know she’s there.

    I will note, a major foundation of our relationship is independence and choice. We are individuals who choose to be together. If either of us wanted to leave, that’s the end of it. There’s no playing dirty to convince someone to stay.

    But everyday I wake up and make that choice to be with her. It’s a very easy choice, but it’s still a daily choice. And to me that’s more important. Knowing that there is no obligation or owing someone something, we are just together because we chose to be.

  51. CuddlyCutieStarfish Avatar

    Yes, I would choose my husband every time. I have been married for 14 years, 16 together. Had 2 kids. He never made me cry. I love him.

  52. Mysterious_Book8747 Avatar

    Yes I would. In a heart beat. Letting him walk me to class and taking that chance was the best decision of my life. It hasn’t been easy – LIFE isn’t easy. But he isn’t the thing about life that is hurtful or hard. He’s the thing about life that makes the hard parts better.

  53. need_a_venue Avatar

    Yes but it’d be nice if she was a different ethnicity or had a different hair style.

    Mix it up a little.

  54. Leap_year_shanz13 Avatar

    Yes absolutely. He is my rock, my greatest supporter. I make him brave. He makes me bold.

  55. kerill333 Avatar

    Yes. I just wish we had met decades earlier. We went to the same school but are 2 years apart in age so never knew each other. We lived in the same area and never met. Both wasted decades with the wrong people… I wouldn’t want to spend my life with anyone else. I’d pick him again, over anyone.

  56. WarringSilver Avatar

    I want to believe in being able to find my partner in the next and every life after that. She is perfect to me. There is nothing I wouldn’t change about her. She makes me want to better myself each day. If reincarnation exists I want you be able to find her.

  57. Gheerdan Avatar

    I wish we had met earlier. I’d choose her every time. I hope we get another chance. A life where we meet young enough to have kids together.

    I also wish we had met before she had to go through some really painful relationships. Some people have harmed her beautiful soul and they didn’t deserve an instant of her life.

  58. IDEKWTSATP4444 Avatar

    No, but I didn’t choose him for love anyway, which was stupid. Definitely didn’t choose him for money either. Chose him fr religion and for having children with him.

  59. Iowname Avatar

    Absolutely. He’s my best friend and soulmate, I’d choose him and I know he’d choose me. The thing is people in happy loving and long lasting relationships don’t tend to post about it on the internet.

  60. cassinea Avatar

    Yes. I didn’t meet my husband until I was 35. If there were another go-around, I want to meet him at a younger age so we’d have even more years together.

    “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”

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  62. HairTop23 Avatar

    I would choose my partner 1000 different lives. I would follow him to the ends of the universe. If I had 1 wish, it would be for everyone to experience the love i found. Its life changing

  63. G_Art33 Avatar

    I firmly believe that in every lifetime it’s possible I will seek her out and find her. And I do believe we have met before in the past. As soon as I got into a relationship with her 11 years ago when I was 16 things just clicked and I knew I’d found my person.

    It proposed on 3/3 of this year. 33 is my lucky number. I will grow old with her and find her again next time I’m young.

  64. Night_mare-Fuel Avatar

    I would 100% choose my bf every time in every life. I have been through so many awful relationships and treated just how you’re describing. I struggle with a lot of trauma and mental health issues so I get it I’m difficult to love. But I deserve love. And my bf is the first to make me believe that. He is so sweet and so patient and so gentle and so loving. Love like we deserve does absolutely exist it’s just really hard to weed out the bad ones sometimes. People are deceptive and evil more than most would like to admit but of course there’s so many really good people that love completely.

  65. JoneseyP98 Avatar

    I waited a very long time to find the man that I am with and love. Somehow I always knew that there was a right ‘someone’ for me. To be honest I had given up hope, but I knew I would never settle.

    We found each other seven years ago. He is everything I ever wanted. He’s my person. My love. He was worth the wait (found him when I was in my late thirties)

    What i realise now is that i wouldn’t have been ready for him, until I did meet him. I met him at the right time.

    I never knew I could be loved like this. A tough man on the exterior who without a doubt adores me. As for me? He is the love of my life and I’d wait an eternity if in the next life I could be with him again.

  66. JonWill49 Avatar

    I would and wish I could have done it sooner in life.

  67. Lollypop1305 Avatar

    I would always choose my husband. We aren’t perfect and we argue occasionally but we have a deep respect and love for one another, a passionate relationship and we both just get each other in a way I’ve never experienced before.

  68. Uhrcilla Avatar

    I would choose my husband of 18 years over and over again. Every time. Every life.

    He is kind. He is generous. He is faithful. He is honest. He is gentle. He is steadfast.

    He hates raising his voice. He loves serving his family and loved ones. He is a huge nerd. He is flexible with his schedule and time, always willing to help me or accommodate a change. We’ve shared a car the majority of our relationship!

    This man has called 911 for me multiple times. Kept his shit together for me when I was scared and hurt or sick. Sat in many, many hospital rooms. Went through 13 years of infertility and 2 IVFs and never once complained. Helped me walk, stand, sit, use the toilet, wipe, shower, even wheelbarrowed my legs into bed after I gave birth via c-section, all while telling me what a beautiful incredible goddess I was (I was not).

    Every day, he shows me he loves me and cares for me. Shows up for us. Shows up as a father, and a husband, but also as a friend. Works hard and just tries to see the best in us.

    I tell him all the time I don’t deserve someone as wonderful as he is. He tells me I’m the wonderful one. I know I’m the lucky one, and I’d follow him anywhere.

    “You and no other, always.”

  69. Tiny-Scholar-773 Avatar

    No, I wouldn’t.

    I feel emotionally stuck most of the time. He spends nearly all his time on his phone or watching TV, and I can’t leave because we have young kids under five. Most days, I feel numb. I constantly compare our relationship to others, which only deepens my resentment. It’s been forever since we’ve had a real date or meaningful connection.

    When I try to express how I feel, he gets defensive or agitated, so I stay silent. On top of the emotional distance, he’s often unemployed and has a serious gambling problem. He even opened lines of credit and credit cards under his mom’s name — and now we’re stuck paying off that debt.

    I feel like I can’t do life with him, but I also don’t know how to do life without him. I’m emotionally attached, even though deep down I know this isn’t sustainable. Ughhh, 7 years wasted and ongoing.

  70. DisastrousCharacter3 Avatar

    Yes. I would. Absolutely. I love my wife very much.

  71. Unusual_Season_7196 Avatar

    Absolutely noti. I’d be friends with him, but that’s it

  72. RGlasach Avatar

    I will find him in every life & it will always be worth it.

  73. transiiant Avatar

    I’ll preface by saying my boyfriend and I are relatively new in our relationship. Just a couple weeks shy of a year of dating, 7 months of being “officially” boyfriends.

    Towards the beginning of our relationship, we were discussing the afterlife. I told him that if there’s an afterlife, I’d hope to be reincarnated. I like to believe in multiple lives and meeting people across lifetimes (soulmates and such). He joked around, asking if I hoped we met in the next life, too. I playfully told him I would.

    And thinking about this question again with our relationship having progressed, I can certainly say, yes. I would choose him again in every lifetime. Across continents, cultures, time and space, I would want to fall in love with him over and over again until my lives run out.

  74. Proof_Ear_970 Avatar

    100% yes. I’d find him and love him in every life time. He’s the best. He loves me completely and I the same. He’s my best friend, my rock, my everything. I know if he was asked the question he would say 100% were just perfect together.

  75. OutdoorsyGeek Avatar

    Yes! All the others were pretty much a waste of time. She’s high above them all in every way.

  76. BboyStatic Avatar

    Most people in happy and loving relationships are not coming to Reddit to post about how great their relationships are. On top of that, you can expect a lot of the posts are just creative writing exercises. The ones that are real, tells you just as much about the person writing them as it does their partner.

    If you want a happy relationship in your future, have standards other than just what the person looks like, then take your time getting to know them, figure out whether you share the same values and goals. You constantly hear people say their partner suddenly changed after years of being together. While that might be true in some special circumstances, most people can’t hide their true selves for long. The cheaters, abusers and shitty people are not super intelligent beings that hide their inner workings like some top level spy. People ignore red flags all the time, and if you have standards and spend time getting to know someone, you have a better chance at finding a good partner.

  77. daisies4me Avatar

    I would for sure. We’ve been together for 30 years now. He was a friend of a friend of my roommates and he walked into my living room one day and we’ve been together ever since. We bought a house 3 months in and got married a year to the day we met. We have been through countless things that life threw at us, that almost broke us, but each time we’ve made it through and come out stronger. I would never want to be with anyone else in this life or any other.

  78. JainaW Avatar

    I’ve been with my husband 13 years and we’ve had our moments don’t get me wrong. But I love him so much and I can’t imagine my life without him. He’s my best friend , my comfort, and I get excited to see him every day when get gets home. I would choose him every time.

  79. gidgetcocoa2 Avatar

    I would choose him over and over again. and in the next life I’ll be looking for him sooner. Loving him is the easiest thing i could ever do. I love him because there is no other way. I’ve never felt so embraced and the butter flies have never stopped. I’m eternally his blushing bride.

  80. sarahhchachacha Avatar

    Yes absolutely. I don’t even have words to describe it. Just want to be with him FOREVER. He is hands down the best person I know and while he’s not big on grand, romantic gestures, he takes care of me everyday and shows it through little actions that make my day, and life, better.

  81. Thatoneshortgoblin Avatar

    I had that kinda love, so yes in his case I’d have chose him again and again. But I don’t have that anymore, but yes. It exists, I just lost mine.