When you stoop to the point of questioning a poster's ethos without having a legitimate reason to do so, you are in effect damaging your own legitimacy. You are also exposing an incredible flaw in your ability to argue a point without making personal attacks on your fellow arguer(s) due to a lack of competency on your own part. I cannot prove anything I said in >>20 , but since that's an inevitable part of conversing over the Internet, we'll have to leave it at that, in this thread and any other on the web.
I don't understand your charge of a fallacy in the idea of finding Love for the first time after the age of 30. Indeed, compared to the rest of contemporary society, not being in a "serious" relationship by the age of 30 may be an extreme on the side of abnormal, but does that automatically mean that it is so much better to go to the other extreme and shoot for having a certain number of relationships, no matter how or shallow or ultimately worthless, by a certain age? Are you really saying there's a magic number and a specific cut off point?
That is madness. I would like to reiterate that just because something did not work out for you, it does not mean it will never work out for anyone else. My own relationship is proof of that. And whether it lasts forever or at some point, God forbid, falls apart, it has proven to work for a relatively long period of time even at this point, disproving your end-all and be-all theory. I would go as far as to lend credence to the idea that a person that has gone a longer time than most without dating may have a more difficult time "getting into the game," but to charge that this sort of person is some how corrupted or incapable of ever dating successfully or finding Love is just plain bull shit.
Perhaps beating the odds even further down, we are both introverted, shy, "quiet" people who lack a social gene and are really quite lucky to have met and even given each other a chance. We share a common interest in things that may be considered similar but different. For example, he likes comic books and I like manga, he likes science fiction and I like fantasy, he's interested in cryptozoology and I like reading about hauntings, and we both like horror. We have VERY different tastes in music, television, and film, and that keeps our conversations from turning homogenous, as do the obvious differences in our life experiences up to this point. The most important thing, though, is that we legitimately love each other; the feelings this relationship have given me are very strong and very pure and very, very concentrated on him and his well being. I have never cried while thinking about how much I love anyone else I've ever met before, nor has anyone I've ever met broken into tears while gently telling me how much I mean to them. We finally admitted that we loved each other in April and kissed for the first time about a month after that. In the seven months since, every single day has had a silver lining to it, and it's because of the love that we share together.
I am a very, very blessed person to be in his heart and to have him in mine, and if either of us believed in the idea that it was "too late" at some point during our lives to ever give Love a chance, I would not be in the wonderful place I am today. I am so grateful that we gave each other, and ourselves, the chance that we did. It was the most rewarding risk I have ever taken in my life and I will never regret it.