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Phentex

(16,334 posts)
Sun Sep 30, 2018, 09:43 PM Sep 2018

It's just like one of those stories you read online! Woman reconnects with high school boyfriend...

My friend has been unhappy in her marriage for the last few years. I knew she was waiting to divorce her husband after her kids had graduated from high school.

She got an email or FB message from an old boyfriend. He tried to find her for two years but he didn't know her married name and she has a really common given name so google wasn't much help. He finally found her through a mutual friend and sent her a message: he'd like to contact her. She said okay. They talked. And talked. And then she decided to divorce her husband of 20 years and start a new life with him.

She dropped this information on me a few weeks ago. This was me:



Me: Who is this guy? You never mentioned him before. Well he's the love of her life that she dated for two summers (he was on the West coast, she the East).

What do you know about him? Married twice, two kids. He wants her to move to California.

What about your kids? They want to finish school here. They can visit me and decide where they want to live.

She told me many more details that I'd rather not share and I was still:




Life imitates the internet!

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It's just like one of those stories you read online! Woman reconnects with high school boyfriend... (Original Post) Phentex Sep 2018 OP
I knew a woman who did just that sort of thing-- dawg day Sep 2018 #1
I too have looked back and realized I loved a man who I discarded angstlessk Sep 2018 #2
I reconnected to my first love two years ago at my 50th. class reunion. sinkingfeeling Oct 2018 #3

dawg day

(7,947 posts)
1. I knew a woman who did just that sort of thing--
Sun Sep 30, 2018, 09:57 PM
Sep 2018

Left everything, divorced husband and gave him everything, moved to Florida to be with high school boyfriend (now 54), and only then learned he was married and had no intention of leaving his wife.

There's no fool like an old fool....

angstlessk

(11,862 posts)
2. I too have looked back and realized I loved a man who I discarded
Sun Sep 30, 2018, 10:00 PM
Sep 2018

because he went out to sea and I hooked up with someone else...whom I married, and went from loved daughter in law to hated persona non grata in short shrift..

Dwight was really the love of my life, but I was too stupid to know it!

sinkingfeeling

(51,457 posts)
3. I reconnected to my first love two years ago at my 50th. class reunion.
Mon Oct 1, 2018, 01:32 AM
Oct 2018

We're at the emailing/texting stage. I don't think ours wil
work out since we have become polar opposites politically.

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