Starting next year I will have been single (without a partner) for 9 years. How long have you gone without a romantic/sexual partner?

[SolitarySolace]

[Lliam]

About 5 or 6 years.

I had exclusive, long-term girlfriends from the time I was 16.

When I was 26.5 years old, I got a corporate job, had to cut my long hair and start wearing a suit. Before that, I had been a surfer, rock musician and partier. I was super active all the time. But my lifestyle changed. I no longer recognized myself. Plus the job was sedentary and I didn't have much spare time.

People were taking me to lunch at good restaurants every day and I discovered food.

I started gaining weight. By age 29, I had gained 50 lbs and broken up with my girlfriend. I didn't try to date because I didn't want the kind of girl who would want me. I was unhappy and didn't like myself.

When I was 34, I went on Weight Watchers, got back in shape, and started dating again.
By then, I was used to my job and new lifestyle/persona. I had grown up and was happy.

I immediately got together with a girl for about a year, but she turned out to be unbalanced. I was 34 and she was 31 when we met. She's the only girlfriend I ever had who turned out to be an ass hole.

My next girlfriend was the best of my entire life. We lived together for over a year. She's the first one I ever loved with all my heart and she loved me. I was 36 and she was 30 when we met.

[Darkest-Knight]

33 years

[Nxtawm]

I’ve had one boyfriend that lasted about a month, never did anything sexual, it’s been maybe 4 years since then?

[LazerBean]

I got my first boyfriend when I was 18 and married him. So aside from before then, never.

[TipsyFr]

About a year and a half maybe a bit less after a long term relationship I decided to work on myself as I didn’t like the person I was, I wasn’t sworn to abstinence rather I decided it was time to take some responsibility for my life, make some new friends, be kind to people and get closer to life goals. Once I got my life back on track a really great girl met me through some new friends, she moved away after a year but she really helped get me to a point where I was confident enough to start dating again. I didn’t try the long distance relationship stuff as that’s a painful one ✌️

[BCRanger10]

I was formally single from 2005 until 2017. I'd had dates and a couple of brief flings, but no actual relationship during that time.

[andreasderjuengere]

In three years from now it will be about 1 1/2 weeks.

[Avicenna]

Three months max

[SolitarySolace]

Think you can go longer?

[Avicenna]

I suppose I could, but why do it if I don't have to?

[Tortoise_Lover]

My whole life.

[Shiddidek]

I was single for 4 years. Im in a relationship now

[jamesgoldman]

Same as you

[SolitarySolace]

Do you think you can go another 9? I know I can lol

[jamesgoldman]

I'm not expecting it to change anytime soon