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Do You Still Think About the One That Got Away?
Is there someone in our lives we never get over?
I know a woman whose husband left her for his high school girlfriend. My friend is gorgeous, smart, kind, and all things good in this world. The other woman is far less attractive among other things.
“I don’t get it,” a few of the girls' remark.
“He’s not looking at the woman of today,” I say. “For him, it’s senior year and the girl who got away wants him.”
And that’s a powerful thing.
If only we could stay frozen in time as those beautiful young beings. Maybe all of our spouses would continue to gaze romantically in our direction. Perhaps this is where ‘romanticizing the past’ hails from.
When I was in my twenties, someone told me, “There’s always one person in our lives we never truly get over.” They were relaying something their mother had told them.
Young love is intensely addictive.
It’s where our adolescence is born.
It’s a part of shaping who we are…so we take it with us.
We grow, date others, and eventually find the ‘new one.’ And this one feels right in an entirely different way. We are far from adolescence, we are grown-ups, and this means we…
