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[disneyknut]

After getting out my Prom pictures & looking at my photo album from when I was in high school, and reading Sarah's post about her old boyfriend's e-mail got me thinking...

Have you ever re-connected with an old love ( as friends or more) after many years?

and who was that true love of your life? I know sappy but my friends & I always have this conversation.. especially over maegaritas in Chi Chi's ...

The guy in the prom photos & I dated from the time I was 13 until I was 19... VERY on & off... He was a senior in high school when I met him & I was a freshman (different schools) .. we dated for almost a year until he got messed up with drugs & we broke it off.. He cleaned up & even joined ROTC. It seems that 'something' always brought us back together. Every couple of months ( it seems when I ended any relationship with someone else) he would show up at my door & I would melt & we'd get back together for a couple months!! .. We were 'off' for over a year at one point & I even got pre-engaged to someone else.. but as soon as my boyfriend & I broke up.. He was there!! (this was when we went to the prom) this went on & on for sooo many years & every time I vowed I wasn't going to see him anymore, all he had to do is look at me & I was a goner.. When we were off he would be so nasty .. I invited him to my high school graduation (as a friend) & he sent the nastiest letter saying it was over between us & I was 'past history' ( yes I remember the note vividly!) & he wanted nothing more to do with me.. I thought that was finally it but imagine my surprise when not 3 months later he shows up at my door .. I was getting ready to go out with friends & he kept begging me to stay & I cooly told him to visit with my Mom, I didn't have time for him.. He followed me out to my car asking if he could come etc & I told him no & left with the zinger "John, history has a way of repeating itself, remember that!"( in reference to his note) .. ( all the while my heart is beating a mile a minute.. he had that effect on me)

Well, he showed up at the beauty salon I worked at for me to cut his hair.. & yes, I feel for his spell again & we got back together.. I think we were together for over a year this time & he went to my brothers wedding with me in May .. After the wedding he decided we needed space... & it was over yet again!! That Summer I was sitting at my cousins baseball game & hear a familiar laugh behind me & turn around it was HIM about 3 rows behind me... He was with 2 girls & they were looking at me & laughing & smirking.. right then & there everything I ever felt for him was GONE ( like someone turned off a switch) I met my ex husband about a month later & started dating him in October & married him the following October...
February after my wedding I am visiting my Mom & answer her front door & to my surprise there is John... I let him in & then went to my house (which was right behind my Mom's) Mom of course pulled out my wedding photos to show John & he was holding the book looking so sad & said to my Mom "well, I guess I've lost her for good!" DUH, you had your chance buddy!! I would have followed him to the ends of the earth!!

Fast forward almost 10 years later.. my Ex & I are having major marital difficulties & I just found out about his first affair.. my self-esteem was below 0 at this point.. My cousin & a couple friends try to cheer me up by going to a local water park.. I go & am sitting at a picnic table & who is there but John!!! He runs over to me & hugs me & tells me I'm as beautiful as ever.. (I really needed to hear that) we talked for over an hour.. I did tell my Ex about running into him & he wasn't too happy ( especially about the still beautiful part) I saw him a couple more times at the water park ( I think that was his hang out) & we chatted but nothing more.. I felt a nice rememberance with him, but not that strong love feeling..

I didn't see him again until I was already married to Jim & ran into him at Home depot.. We had already had Jamie & I was pregnant with Brendan at the time.. it was nice to see him & Jim enjoyed meeting him as he's heard so many stories about him ( Jim nor I are the jealous type) He was married with 2 kids at the time.. (he's since divorced, I think) I have not seen him since then.. but he was my true love.. the one who made my heart stop!!

share your true love story...

[simbarel]

Morbadeus and I don't keep in touch (his wife would flip) but my brother is still friends with him.

Before I met Wally I found my college BF (hubba hubba) heading an ESL program in Korea and we exchaged a couple emails, but it turns out he's just as evil as he used to be. Back then he was so cute I just ignored it, but he was really terrible! He directed me to some of his short stories online, so I also discovered he has failed to develop as a writer. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/dizzy.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/082502yes_prv.gif[/img] :justice:

ETA...Just out of curiosity I looked him up again, he has these op-ed pieces in Korean papers (in English) and they're still horrible. I think in school he used me as his free proofreader. Not exactly a "true love" story, SO thankful that I'm currently living mine. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/love.gif[/img]

[Luv4My4]

I can honestly say that my DH is the love of my life. We have been together since high school (17 years and counting) I went to his Junior & Senior proms and he went to my Senior prom (I still have to dig out the pictures). We broke up countless times and we broke each other's hearts way too many times but something kept drawing us back together (and it wasn't just the fact that we had a daughter together). The longest we ever broke up was for 3 months one summer and if I am being honest even though we claimed to hate each other and were both seeing other people (not seriously) we were still seeing each other on the side [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] 8 long, hard years after we met we finally got married and a mutual friend of ours asked my DH why we got married (not in a mean way but just wondering how we managed to stay together and get married through all the bad times and breakups) and my DH told her that no matter how many times we broke up, no matter how many times he thought it was over, he just couldn't get over me, I was in his heart!! I couldn't have said it better myself [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]!! We are now happily married for 9 years with 4 beautful daughters and I couldn't be happier, I can't imagine my life without him!

Edited to answer the first question: I don't really talk to any of my old boyfriends but I don't hate any of them either. If I run into one of them somewhere (which has happened from time to time) I will usually stop to catch up as long as their wives don't have a problem with it. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[RobinKay6573]

I had a major crush on a guy that played minor league baseball in Vermont in 1987. His name was Marty Brown. A couple of years ago he was the manager for a team that played the Vermont Expos. My mom had him call me and we talked for about 10 minutes. I was totally melting. He was always so nice to me (and so was his wife). They have 3 (maybe 4 kids). I was 14 when I knew him...so it was nothing more then a crush.

I have been in love but the guys I have been in love with I have NO interest in seeing again because they broke my heart more ways then one.

[soccermomof2]

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I can honestly say that my DH is the love of my life.

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Ditto here. Rob is the love of my life. We met in high school (1985). He was junior and I was a senior. We met at the Gallery (in Philly) because he was there to meet one of my friends who was going to ask him to our senior prom and I was there to meet the girl's cousin to go with him to the prom. Turns out I didn't like the guy so I was resigned to the fact that I wasn't going to the prom. Little did I know that Rob really liked me and kept begging my friend to give him my number. I had no idea until about 2 weeks before the prom. We started talking on the phone (long conversations)and then decided to date. He went to the prom with my friend, but had a terrible time because I wasn't there; he called me all night from a pay phone.
The next year, I went to his senior prom.
We dated on and off for several years and broke up for almost two years, which I have to admit were the worst two years of my life. I finally came to realize on the night of my college graduation (1991) that I had made a terrible mistake and I wanted him back. However, he was dating someone at the time, so I was devestated. We did get back together later that year, got engaged in 1993 and got married in 1995. We now have know each other for 21 years (more than half of our lives) and happily married for 11 years.
Ahh, true love!

[jimmymac]

Fascinating stories here

[RobDVC]

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Ditto here. Rob is the love of my life. We met in high school (1985). He was junior and I was a senior. We met at the Gallery (in Philly) because he was there to meet one of my friends who was going to ask him to our senior prom and I was there to meet the girl's cousin to go with him to the prom. Turns out I didn't like the guy so I was resigned to the fact that I wasn't going to the prom. Little did I know that Rob really liked me and kept begging my friend to give him my number. I had no idea until about 2 weeks before the prom. We started talking on the phone (long conversations)and then decided to date. He went to the prom with my friend, but had a terrible time because I wasn't there; he called me all night from a pay phone.
The next year, I went to his senior prom.
We dated on and off for several years and broke up for almost two years, which I have to admit were the worst two years of my life. I finally came to realize on the night of my college graduation (1991) that I had made a terrible mistake and I wanted him back. However, he was dating someone at the time, so I was devestated. We did get back together later that year, got engaged in 1993 and got married in 1995. We now have know each other for 21 years (more than half of our lives) and happily married for 11 years.
Ahh, true love!


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I *KNEW* from the moment I met Margaret that she was the one for me.

[Belle*]

Married to mine! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/love.gif[/img] I do occasionally get an e-mail from my high school bf who is married and has 2 children. He was a very nice person, I was the horrible one in that relationship. It's always nice to hear that someone who was good to you is doing well! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/082502yes_prv.gif[/img]

[DisneyFanAnn]

I'm another one who can say that DH is the love of my life. I had guys that I "loved" but when I met DH it was different. We met in college....he was the hall director and I was one of the RAs. We started dating 2 weeks after we met....it had to be a secret because he was my boss!!! So we were dating but we were best friends too so we could always hang out together and no one really thought anything of it. We sort of dated other people off and on but nothing serious...and we were still seeing each other secretly at the same time. Then he graduated a year before me and we did the whole long distance relationship thing. I graduated and moved with him back to NY and moved in together while we planned the wedding. We've been together ever since! (We've even worked at the same universities). We've known each other for 20 years this year and been married 16! He truly is my best friend and my soulmate. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/love.gif[/img]
I don't really have any contact with any of my old boyfriends....I was in touch with the guy who would have been the one if I hadn't gone to college for awhile but that only lasted about 2 years after graduation.

[graygables]

I had 2 "true loves" before DH. My first love was my godparents' son in Germany. We basically grew up together from the time I was 5 and when I was about 11 (he was 13), we started the hand-holding and stuff. We just knew we were going to marry. Then, my dad had to face a decision and we moved back to the States. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/cry.gif[/img] He and I kept in touch and we went back every few years to visit and we'd go out and I was still sure I would marry him. After awhile, the letters got fewer and farther between on both sides and I met love #2.

This guy was also a few years older than me and after the first few dates, we were fairly inseperable. He didn't have any family around, so if he got sick, I took care of him or he would come stay at our house. At one point, I was in a bad ski accident and was in a cast from hip to toe and he was there for me. I was also having migraines when my parents were out of town, so he took me to the ER, brought my teddy bear and held my hand during the spinal tap (and passed out himself [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img]) On the one hand, he was very caring, thoughtful, gentle, etc, but he had a "party" side that finally pushed me over the edge and I ran away to London for 2 weeks. The whole time I was gone, he was begging my mom to tell him where I'd gone, so he could come bring me home, but she wouldn't (I'd made her promise). When I got back, I'd gotten my head together and told my heart that love or no, I couldn't live that way, so we agreed to remain friends. The day I married ex (which the BF was *NOT* happy about), I had honestly thought he would show up and object, but I later learned that he was off drinking somewhere b/c he was so upset at my going through with the wedding. All I can say is that I was young and STUPID. My dad had helped BF get a job at American, so they ran into one another more than he and I did, but it was nice to have updates.

After my divorce, I took DDs to Germany and there were sparks again w/ my childhood sweetheart, but by that point, I knew nothing would come of it w/ the language barrier and who would move? Plus, he'd started gravitating toward being angry at America (this was during the Bosnian War) which didn't bode well for a future. He waited a long time to get married, but now he is and has a couple of children. We were glad to see the other settled and happy.

I did lose touch with my college BF, but I recently learned in an "it's a small world" moment that he has contracted HIV and has full blown AIDs [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] It breaks my heart for him and his family, they all were wonderful people.