Welcome back to yet another episode of "What If Wednesday"!
For those who are new, (via Robin's blog Thank you, Robin!) I try to post a 'What If' type query over here on Wednesdays. Mostly I like to get conversation flowing along in the comments and will usually blog about what brought me to post that particular 'What If'.
This week's post is a little different than my usual. This time I am not inspired by something that has struck me in particular or has some bearing on something important to me. This time I'm gonna' hit y'all up with a 'What If' that simply intrigues me. I ran upon it while looking for a cute saying to add to address change cards (planning ahead and feeling positive!) and it really has nothing to do with that either.
So here we go:
What if the one that got away, came back?
I love those stories of people who get together with someone from their long lost past and it all works out so beautifully. I also know that sometimes the best thing that ever happens is to not end up with the person that you think you want to be with so badly at one particular moment.
I personally do not have a 'one that got away', but I have been the 'one that got away'. I know this because the guy ended up contacting a friend of mine and telling her all about it. The feeling wasn't mutual. ;) And it was way too late anyway...
Do you have a 'one that got away'? Would you want them in your life now or at anytime in the future, say if you were available for a relationship at that time?
I married the only one I really dated, 18 yrs ago this June.
ReplyDeleteMe too. But it didn't keep at least one other from thinking that he wished he were the one I had chosen!
Deletelol! I had two guys say I was 'the love of their life"...I was clueless....they were the 'dates of a few months'. LOLOLOL....that being said, they usually got away for a reason.
ReplyDeleteI do tend to agree that if they're gone, it's for a good reason. But I also love those stories of high school sweethearts who find one another after decades and other lives apart.
DeleteIf the one that got away came back now, they'd most likely come back dead. Nyuk, Nyuk.
ReplyDeleteOK, but let's suspend reality here. What if they came back alive and you were available?!
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DeleteNo dice. Once I'm done, I'm done. If someone was capable of hurting me once, they would be capable of doing it again.
Here was a lesson to my Granddaughter. She was hanging out (dating, I guess) with a married guy who was at the time living with his wife and little boy. He was cheating .....my granddaughter was single but was hurting a family. Of course he professed that he and his wife were going to divorce....bla bla bla...... old story. His wife found out, he left and moved in with my granddaughter. She asked my advice and I told her he would cheat on her too, just because he was a cheater. After a year they were going to get married, everything planned, the rings, dress, reception, etc and he announced he had to leave "to find himself." She went cuckoo but believed him. I told her he already had someone else and of course she got angry that I would suggest such a thing. Turned out he did and he moved in directly with the new one. Rude awakening for my granddaughter but now after many self help books and some counseling, she is smarter and wiser.
The bad news is I do have a "one that got away." The good news is it was a fish.
ReplyDeleteI think every man has a fish story about 'the one that got away'!
DeleteYou are well aware of the type of jerk I was attracting. Well, my luck wasn't much better before I married and divorced. Although, I do think my First Real Boyfriend was the best person I dated. Do I regret him getting away? No. Even though I don't think he was bad like all that came after we weren't a good fit. If it was meant to be, it would have been. We were together off and on for seven years. If you can't make it work with that much time under your belt... it ain't gonna work. And I don't want any of my ex's back. There is nothing in my rear view mirror. I am pedal to the metal and rolling in 5th gear.
ReplyDeleteYeah, it makes sense you wouldn't even have room in your life to entertain the silly idea of wanting something left over from the past. :)
ReplyDeleteI was the one who got away, too. I heard about it from a mutual friend.
ReplyDeleteThere was no "one who got away," which is fortunate, because my wife would probably murder her. This poor girl would contact me and say a flirty hello, and then a sharpened prison shank would just magically eviscerate her. Which is fine by me, because I'm very happily married and don't need anyone knocking on my door from my past. They're back there in the past for a reason. :)
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