love twenty years later

[momophile]

I was so excited to hear that two of my best high school buddies have recently fallen for each other, nearly twenty years after graduating high school. We were all tight in hs, and there were never any sparks back then. I guess it took them both growing, changing, experiencing other things before they were ready for each other.

This is so trippy. Does this sort of thing really happen?

[qnr]

1. Apparently, judging by your post :) -- have they been in contact the whole

time?

[momophile]

3. only sorta in contact.

we all went to his wedding nearly 13 years ago. then they mainly kept in contact thru me. they only recently hooked back up in person after she moved to the town he lives in.

It's just too cool!

[idgiehkt]

2. I can SO see this happening.

In fact I can see it happening a lot more likely than meeting a total stranger and falling 'in love' or whatever. Someone from the past remembers you when you were young, before you were jaded and had flaws.

[momophile]

4. it is cool that you'd already know the other persons past

and there was no awkward trying to impress the other one because it's new.

[BarenakedLady]

5. Gives me hope for my 20th reunion next year...

Ok, no not really.

Cute story.

[momophile]

6. no, really!

well, unless you are already married to someone else... or some other situation. or if you don't go to the 20th reunion.

[eyesroll]

7. My SO's 90-year-old grandfather and his companion* knew each other

in elementary school...both became widowed, and reacquainted (I'm not sure whether they kept in touch at all during the interim, or if they ran into each other at a reunion or what) late in life. They've been together for several years now.

*I'm not sure exactly what to call her. They're not going to marry, they live together, but it's odd calling someone in her 90s a girlfriend.

[momophile]

8. that is so cute

my SO's dad has a girlfriend - he is 65-ish and she is 75-ish - and it is wierd for us to call her "the girlfriend" as well.

[femmocrat]

9. My brother met his wife at a class reunion. He didn't know her

in high school, but she had a huge crush on him! It was their 20th or 25th reunion, I think.