“That was 13 years ago next month, and it still hurts.”
We fell madly in love with each other, and it felt like my whole world revolved around her.
She was my first serious girlfriend and my first true love.
The breakup devastated me.
I thought for sure we would get married one day and live happily ever after.
After I got over our breakup, I had four or five somewhat serious relationships with other women.
I sometimes wonder how I would respond if my old girlfriend got in touch with me.
Bottom line is that I hope she is happy and doing well."
sidneykaler
3.
“Mine that got away was my ex-husband.
We both had our share of mental health problems, and he had an alcohol problem.
We just couldnt do it anymore, even though he really was my soulmate.
Im excited to introduce him to my husband this summer and meet his girlfriend.”
greenbutterfly89
4.
“I worked with her for years in the same restaurant/hospitality company.
We were both in relationships when we met, but the attraction was there.
I still think of the night she kissed me at a staff party 17 years ago.
“Wed dated for two years in high school, and after graduation, he met someone else.
Id thought things were fine.
“Fell in love with the man of my dreams (my hero!
), married, and life took off.
Came a time we struggled, though, and took a break.
Somehow old boyfriend looked me up; he was having his own crisis.
Went back to our spouses, me happily, he comfortably.
Always friends; but it was meant to be this way.”
radskull1386
6.
“I have one of these.
I totally messed up, all my fault, let the guy get away.
applescruff1983
7.
“We met right before I graduated high school.
Our relationship was only a few months, and it was hard.
I looked at him as my husband and his daughter as my stepdaughter from that moment on.
“I spent years thinking about the one who got away.
What I could have done and if I could ever go back to him.
Then I actually met ‘the one.’
Now I know what its like to really be loved and in love.
I dont even think about my ex anymore.”
theredgingersnap
9.
“He was my first love and was on the Harvard crew team.
Many years later, he sent me FB photos of his island home and his beautiful wife.
I tried to look him up and read his obituary instead.
He died on November 28, 2023.
I called him Pucknik.”
cornytortoise49
10.
I was in my early 20s, and it was definitely not a healthy relationship.
He was controlling and emotionally abusive.
I have no doubts that if I had stayed, the abuse would have turned physical.
“Its been ten years since ‘the one that got away’ for me.
peppermintraymaker
12.
“I thought there was something better out there.
I left him high and dry.
He is so very missed.
I wish I couldve told him how much I truly loved him for so many years.”
gsferalaunt
13.
He was there without his wife as a friend of the groom.
We spent the rest of the evening talking, and I left for the East Coast in the morning.
Someone who does want you will show it.
christenisspeaking
15.
“My first love was the cousin of my best friend.
I was head over heels in love with him, and he was my first.
It still had the same fireworks.
I got him enough.
He was not going to be my forever, especially with being a teenager.
However, my life took me into a completely different part of the country, career path and boyfriends.
My best friend calls him my ‘John’ 2.0.”
ellie4me
16.
“We were both unhappily married and raising our children.
Of all things, we met in an AOL chatroom and lived only three hours away from each other.
We chatted for quite some time until we met at a midpoint and agreed to get a hotel room.
We were both in sexless marriages and that night, it all changed.
We made love for hours until we were both exhausted, sore, and spent.”
“I still have feelings for her.
We had been inseparably close almost since birth.
There were just four days between us and only two doors apart on the same block.
But none blamed me more than I did.
She would not have been in that car if not for me.
Had she lived, we would both be 50 this fall with 35-year-old twins who might have kids.”
bradhart
18.
“I was a junior, and he was a senior in high school.
His family moved away after he graduated, and we broke up.
We ran into each other a couple of times after that, but we never got back together.
We lost touch, and I got married.
I thought about how that 17-year-old boy loved me nearly daily during my 20-year marriage.
icysmoothie74
19.
That was the reason we never properly became a couple.
Now I think I’m the one who got away and happy I did.”
We became super close throughout the years to the point where people thought we had something going on.
“However, shit the fan between us before I could tell her anything.
We dont talk to each other anymore, but were on neutral terms.
Im in an amazing relationship today, but I sometimes think about her and hope shes doing well.
We had a lot of great memories together, but thats all itll ever be.
I think back and feel like she wasnt meant to know how I felt about her.
Both of us are now widowed, and he reached out to me through Facebook.
