There is no age at which one should be in a partnership, pet.<br /><br />At twenty-five, I had a seven-year-old son and had gotten engaged - to a man who went from devoted boyfriend to beating me into hospital......<br />I got rid of him and, on the rebound, married someone who proved to be deeply insecure, spent the seven years of our marriage cutting me off from all my friends, except one - and t