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[quote=Anonymous]I am 49 and didn't get married until mid-30s.  I wasn't much of a casual dater but had a lot of short and longer-term boyfriends beginning in college through the time I met my now-husband.  Pretty much every single one of these guys, except one until today, has gotten back in touch with me at some point.  When I was in my late 20s I had boyfriends from college find me (one apologized for ghosting me before that was a term), and sporadically since.

Today I got a message from the guy I think of as the second most important relationship in my life after my husband, a guy who broke up with me, leaving me devastated.  Through the years I have thought about him a lot, not because I think I missed out on a great relationship but because my life, had I stayed with him, would have been fundamentally different.  He was European, I probably would have stayed in Europe, where we met, and lived a completely different life.  He represents the path not taken.  When I saw the message, my stomach did a flip, though. I always wondered if he thought about me, and assumed he didn't because there were long periods of his life spent in the US for work and I heard nothing from him.  In his message, he asked to meet up, which I'm not going to do.  The past should stay the past, I think, and meeting doesn't serve much of a purpose than to mar memories of how much better we both looked when we were young.

How often does this kind of thing happen?  Have you reconnected with an old flame for old times sake?  Did you meet up just for fun?  What happened?  [/quote]

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