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The Age You’re Going To Have Your Worst Heartbreak, Based On Your Zodiac Sign

Everyone will experience a heartbreak at some point in their lives. Whether youโ€™re loving freely and often or are constantly trying to protect your heart, someone will come along some day to rip it clean from your body. If youโ€™re wondering when thatโ€™ll happen, look for your zodiac sign below for the age youโ€™re mostly likely to get your heart broken.

Aries

When you like someone, you go for it. Thereโ€™s very little forethought or planning. Because of that, youโ€™ll sometimes run headfirst into heartbreak. Your worst heartbreak will happen pretty early in your adult life, around 23. Fortunately, you bounce back easily and it wonโ€™t harden your heart too much. Youโ€™ll be back to dating as if it never happened. (But we all know it did.)

Taurus

Youโ€™re pretty cautious. Youโ€™ll go through your young adult years skeptical of anyone you date. You donโ€™t want to get hurt after all. Eventually, you will though. Around 25, youโ€™ll meet someone you could see forever with. Youโ€™ll move in together and create a comfortable life, but they want something different than you do. The resulting heartbreak will be catastrophic, earth-shaking. Itโ€™ll take you a long time to recover.

Gemini

Itโ€™s not that you shield your heart from love or anything. Youโ€™ll have a vibrant dating life in your 20s. Itโ€™s just that you will purposefully prevent yourself from getting too attached. It isnโ€™t until you settle down a bit in your 30s that youโ€™ll open your heart enough for it to get broken. When it does, when youโ€™re around 40, thatโ€™ll end your world as you know it. Itโ€™ll be a big relationship endโ€“like a divorceโ€“and itโ€™ll color the rest of your future dating life.

Cancer

You might be known for being super cautious and untrusting of people, but you werenโ€™t always that way. It stems from your first heartbreak, which was also your worst. Around 18, youโ€™ll meet someone who makes you feel so special, and youโ€™ll give your whole heart away. Unfortunately, that openness will be your undoing, and youโ€™ll be thinking of that heartbreak for years to comeโ€“maybe forever.

Leo

You donโ€™t fall in love that easily. Sure, youโ€™ll be in relationships, but it feels like the other person always wants it a little more than you do. It wonโ€™t be until your 30s that the status quo will flip. Suddenly youโ€™ll be head over heels for someone, and youโ€™ll learn what it feels like to be the person who wants it more. The imbalance is heartbreaking, and itโ€™ll tear you up inside around 38.

Virgo

Youโ€™re really good at protecting your heart. You lead more with concrete facts and actionable goals than emotions, which means that youโ€™re usually the one breaking hearts. Itโ€™ll take a while for you to find someone that youโ€™re willing to be soft with. Though it wonโ€™t happen in your 20s, the impending heartbreak will eventually catch up to you when youโ€™re around 35. But youโ€™ll survive, which is something youโ€™re great at.

Libra

You love people in general, and that can open yourself up to getting hurt. The heartbreak will come early, around 20. And because you have a large social circle, the breakup might even ruin some friendships. The aftermath will make this heartbreak even worse. Youโ€™ll learn that you shouldnโ€™t date inside your social circle, but youโ€™ll probably continue to knowingly make that mistake for years to come.

Scorpio

Youโ€™re the sign most known for being secretive and erecting walls between you and everyone around you. Youโ€™d think that youโ€™d be one of the signs with the worst heartbreak later in life, but not quite. Around 29, youโ€™ll let your walls down bit by bit for someone who insists that theyโ€™ll treat you with care. In the end, theyโ€™ll create some lasting damage. Just try not to close up forever because one person ended up being terrible.

Sagittarius

For a lot of people, their biggest heartbreak will cause them to be too cautious or down on themselves for years to come. For you, that heartbreak will actually spur you on to do bigger and better things. At a younger age, around 21, youโ€™ll have your heart ripped out. And rather than crying about it for months, youโ€™re more likely to become even more amazing as revenge. Why cry when you can get even my making them regret ever losing you?

Capricorn

Youโ€™re way too pragmatic to let someone break your heart. Thatโ€™s the way you think of it anyway. But no one is immune to heartbreak, and itโ€™ll eventually catch up to you. Around 30, youโ€™ll let your guard down a bit in favor dating a great person. And they will be greatโ€“but that doesnโ€™t mean it wonโ€™t end. When it does, youโ€™ll go back to your pragmatic self, guarding your heart once again.

Aquarius

Romance isnโ€™t really your focus. There are so many other important things. So, by the time you really commit to someone, youโ€™re in it for life. Your heartbreak will come much, much later, when youโ€™re both older, wiser, and still very much in love. This is The Notebook level heartbreak when youโ€™re around 60, and you may not recover. But wow, itโ€™ll be worth it.

Pisces

Youโ€™re one of the more emotional signs. Youโ€™ll be feeling a lot of heartbreak over the years, even when youโ€™re the one breaking hearts. Although thereโ€™ll be more before and after, your worst heartbreak will come when youโ€™re around 33 and feeling like youโ€™re ready to settle down. Sometimes youโ€™re just not on the same page as the people youโ€™re with, and thatโ€™ll be the true heartbreaker.