...yup. And it didn't go well.

I had someone tell me this once. It was the weirdest thing. I had went to grades 4-8 with him. We saw each other at a reunion and he asked me to dance. His wife and my husband both there, too, sitting at the table.

Anyway, he had this whole fabrication of me in his head that wasn't reality! I would have liked to have met the person he thought I was. He was so taken by me that he and his wife even named their firstborn daughter after me so his wife really wanted to meet me since I am the namesake for their daughter. She even referred to me as "the one that got away".

He and his wife were so sincere. Somehow I changed this guy's life! Not sure how - I was just a kid!

Anyway - chalk this one up to one of those freaky moments in time that I look back on and just say HMMMMMMM.

one tried to escape but i have a sound proof house so nobody could hear her

Here are some wiser words Dubz:
Men, can't live with the them
and
you sure as hell can't shoot them

Nope. If anything, they were more the "one who got purged out into space a la 'Aliens'" than anything else.

<--------the one that got away.......quite a few times. I had 3 guys call me in the same week......to tell me I was the one they should have married blah blah blah.

I was shocked.......I broke up with all of them. 15 years later they call me all in the same week. Gaaaaaaaaaaaaawd that was weird!!

Ummmmmmm what do you say???

I carried a sequestered flame for 'the one that got away' for about 20 years. Then I got a chance to get reaquainted with her and realized that the 'flame' was about how I felt when I was with her back then. It's an odd thing getting 'closure' after 20 years.

And, as a bonus, now she is one of my best friends.

that is odd

Yes when had my frist job there was a beautiful lady iwas 20 she was 31 couple of dates then she got new job tried to find her oh well all good things comt the one who waits

they were never "mine" to begin with....nobody is "mine" and i don't own anyone. they wanna be with me because they want to, and they love me and like me..... both, or what's the point?...... or they don't, and i'm not in their future,......... or i didn't put my all into it, and how can i expect to get anything out of it. most people don't often see what's really in front of them sometimes, until it's too late, or they get scared and have second thoughts. what people forget, is that even something that "appears perfect" is only a headstart on a base to work from to make something solid, and will have growing pains, but it could be very worth it. because you have that "WANT" to succeed in a great thing..... i've seen several couples in my time that have been happy for at least thirty years, and one couple of 75 years. i've learned from them. they all say communication is a must, and must remain open at all times with no games, and also to read when someone needs space, and give it to them! if you love them, then do it. it's hard, believe me! but most of the time, they'll love you for it in the long run. communication can be kept open even in these times, by just letting them let you know you love them, by an occasional note.

reading your partner may take time, and you will make mistakes, i certainly have.... but you will get better at it, and the benefits for trying will not go un-noticed if it's truly from the heart, and i believe love will grow stronger as you grow together.
if one, or both of you stop growing, or become stagnant, and in a rut, you are doomed. you must grow!

Mine died... 3 years ago. I find peace in knowing he knew how I felt while he was alive.

I haven't ever had this.

yes,he knows it

yes, she knows it and i know it. fortunately im a firm believer in the fact that theres plenty more out there who have the potential to be the one.

no..and come to think of ot no one has ever told me ...that i was the one who got away..i mean wtf do i look like chop liver over here...damn now i'm depressed...

Yes...

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