Another ? inspired by for the ladies About This Page:

[disneyknut]

Who was your one special love.. [img]graemlins/blush.gif[/img] Yes, I know that your spouse is your soul mate & only true real love but is there one person you remember & your heart still skips a beat or someone who holds a special tiny place in your heart?..
Mine is that non-kissing boyfriend I mentioned in the other post ... his name was John. I was his first girlfriend & he was probably my first 'serious' boyfriend.. We would date for months & then one of us would break up with the other ( usually him breaking up with me! [img]graemlins/cry2.gif[/img] ) & then I'd start dating someone else & a couple months later John would call or stop out my house & we'd start dating again( it always seemed he would come back around just as soon as I broke up with someone else).. that cycle repeated itself for almost 7 years, he took me to my prom, went to my brothers wedding with me etc.. until one day I was at my cousins baseball game & I turned around & saw John sitting there with 2 girls & when he saw me he burst out laughing.. I vowed right then & there that I would NEVER date him again & it was over & I meant it.. 2 months later I met my first husband & we were married within the year.. Well, we were married about 3 months & who stops in my Mom's house.. JOHN.. He came to see if it was true that I had really gotten married & told my Mom " I guess I lost my chance with her huh?" DUH!!! [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] That was the last time he stopped over.. [img]images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img]
Okay, now for the really wierd part.. fast forward almost 10 years later...My ex-husband & I were having difficulties & talking of separating & I was devastated & my cousin took me to a water park to cheer me up & who do I run into.. JOHN... He was a manager at the water park. We sat & chatted & talked for over an hour & when I said Goodbye he said "You're still as beautiful as ever" Made me feel really good at a time in my life that I was feeling so low...
I haven't seen him in ages.. the last being when I was pregnant with DS#2 ( 8 years ago) DH & I ran into him at Home Depot.
Gosh.. that was a fun trip down memory lane...
Anyone else gonna share? I love a good romance story!!!

[kadterp]

Ahhh memories (add Barbara Streisand's voice here)!! [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

My first true love was Glenn, we met at his brother's wedding while I was dating another guy(my first kiss). He called a few times and finally got me to go out on a date with him thus me breaking up with first kiss guy. When that date was over, I was too freaked out to even give him a kiss goodnight! [img]images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img] But he kept calling and we started dating each other, he was a senior and I was a freshman in High School. We dated on and off for about 5 years, but things didnt work out but we still stayed friends. I was dating this real jerk once and he forgot my birthday but Glenn showed up and took me out to dinner! He would do anything possible to make me happy! Glenn's birthday and my DH birthday are only 2 days apart, and to this day I have to stop and think of my DH's birthday so I dont screw it up! [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] Then I started dating my now husband, and I think that broke his heart. [img]images/icons/frown.gif[/img] Then one day, I got woken up by a phone call from my mother telling me that he died in a motorcycle accident and from what I was told, he died still loving me. Talk about guilt huh? [img]graemlins/cry2.gif[/img] What is even more freaky is that we live right around the corner from where he died. But I will always have a special place in my heart for him.

[AKLRULZ]

In all seriousness, I'm married to my one true love - my wife and I met when we were 15 years old and we dated exclusively throughout high school (which was interesting as we went to rival schools) and we both ended up at Virginia Tech and we dated all throughout college. A total of 9 years before we became engaged in our senior year of college. We were married one year out of school and are getting ready to celebrate our 12th anniversary next week. No break ups at all during the dating years - she's been the only one for me! [img]graemlins/love.gif[/img]

[allysonh]

My one special love was Jim, who was an older man and a dear friend and mentor of mine. He was my high school english teacher. We didn't have your normal teacher/student relationship, we really were friends. I would go to him for advice and when his mom was sick, he would talk to me about it.

I don't want you to get the wrong idea, I never told him how I felt for fear of rejection, but I always thought that he was sorry that there was such a gap in our ages and that he was obviously in no position to act on any feelings he may have had. I graduated late, so in my Senior Year when we really got to be close friends, I was already 18. When I was 19 we lost touch and when I was 21 I got married (for the first time) and went to see him.

When we were saying goodbye he said to me 'I can't believe you're married' and I said 'Yes I am.' and he said 'You couldn't wait for me?' [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] and I said back, as cool as you please 'Well, Jim, I couldn't wait forever.' but I was dying inside!!! I couldn't believe it!!!

Through every real relationship I had, even my first marriage, he was always in the back of my mind, I was always comparing them to Jim and I loved him for a long time.

My DH is the only man who made him pale in comparison. [img]graemlins/love.gif[/img]

[ 06-13-2002, 10:29 AM: Message edited by: allysonh ]

[Tara O'Hara]

I fought with myself over whether to post this or not, but my talking side got the better of me as usual! My very first love was in ninth grade. His name was Steven Ludwig and he was blond and skinny and I loved the way he walked. Well, my friend told his friend and his friend told him that I liked him and the rest was history! We dated all of ninth grade off and on. It was a very turbulent relationship, but there must have been something magic that we saw in each other that just kept drawing us back together! I didn't see him for two years after we graduated from junior high school and then one day, there he was! Right in the hallway in my high school! [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] He had transferred in from a charter school, his parents had gotten divorced and he had moved in with his dad. I had a boyfriend at the time, but true love is true love . What can you do? Anyway, we went to a David Bowie concert together and this is the honest truth, one week later he was killed in a car accident! His dad gave me all of his David Bowie albums and I still have them to this day. It is very interesting to wonder sometimes if your whole life would have taken another track where you would be right now. This was a great question!

Tara
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[September]

I love reading these stories. Thank you, everyone, for sharing.

As for my "special someone"...like allysonh, this is someone that I never actually dated. He was my BIL's roommate in grad school, when I met him I was sixteen and he was eleven years older. I still tease him about corrupting minors (he gave me my first beer!). When I was in college I was there frequently (DS went to a school an hour and a half away) on weekends, and we were always together. Mainly, though, we emailed just about daily, and wrote letters discussing just about everything.
Side note, it makes me sad sometimes that nobody writes letters anymore; there's something so intimate about putting pen to paper that just doesn't come accross electronically.

Anyway, things got a little sticky when I graduated from college and started looking for jobs in NJ (to be near my boyfriend--now DH). He had known I was dating someone, just not that it was serious--I think on some level he thought that it would end at some point and, now that I was older, we would end up together. The first time he met DH was at my sister's wedding and it was horrible!! It was the first time we'd ever been at something and weren't together, and he was crushed and mean. When I told him that I had gotten engaged I didn't hear from him for three months.

The really funny thing is--and I wasn't sure if I should post this part--that when I first met DH the first thing that drew me to him was that he reminded me of this other guy. DH still teases me about it, but I tell him he was the "perfect version." And, ironically, he is now friends with my husband--though his wife isn't too fond of me.

[disneyknut]

I am really really loving these stories!! When I posted it I really didn't know how to write the question.. But knowing all of you.. you understood what I meant..
My friend/co-worker & I talk about the 'true love' thing all the time... One of her old boyfriends is a substitute teacher at our school & every time he comes to teach he makes a point to stop in the lunch room & give Joan a kiss... we always tease them both & then make little innuendo comments etc.. It's all in good fun but it's sooo cute to see Joan blush & get all giggly when Archie comes around. Her hubby is sooo cool with it & laughs at the way she reacts ( after almost 40 years of marriage I think he's secure!)