Do you have a "one that got away" in your past?

[AnnieA]

No. I've been told I was...

 

[RadishRose]

2 got away and I got away twice.

 

[PeppermintPatty]

When I was 17 I fell head over heels with a guy who was only 15. I didn’t know he was 15 until we’d both bonded. He was the most handsome guy I’ve gone out with. Unfortunately he got paired up with a guy that didn’t like me. They became best buddies and were inseparable. They started going to strip clubs and suddenly my guy changed and broke up with me. I was the saddest person ever..

Not long afterwards he started going after a woman with a mustang who was a lot older than him. He had a full beard and mustache and looked far older than he was. One day I was waiting for the bus at the bus stop and he drove by in this woman’s hot rod. He put on his brakes and the car behind him ran into his back bumper. I couldn’t help but laugh.

 

[jujube]

Well, there were a couple that did get away without my assistance, and it seemed like the end of the world at the time. But, looking back, I can see that them leaving was the best thing that could have happened to me.

I can read the roadmap with clearer eyes and it would have been a bumpy road ahead with a lot of bridges out and many detours.

 

[Deya]

@Nathan You need to explain got away in more detail.

My first serious boyfriend gotta away with stealing my virginity.

My first husband gotta away with cheating.

My second and final husband gotta a way with exemplary love making.

So there is three gotta aways. There may be more but they gotta away
so quickly, I don't remember them.

I have gotta a way of being a real pain in my husbands posterior, but
I gotta a way of making him happy also.

 

[Nathan]

@Nathan You need to explain got away in more detail.

Oh shoot, I thought I was going to get away with just being vague...Lol. "The one that got away" refers to a past romantic interest with whom a relationship didn't work out, but who remains in the person's memory and is often idealized as the "one" that got away.

 

[Deya]

Oh shoot, I thought I was going to get away with just being vague...Lol. "The one that got away" refers to a past romantic interest with whom a relationship didn't work out, but who remains in the person's memory and is often idealized as the "one" that got away.

Yeah, I know I was just being a smart burro. I wish I had a stereotypical gotta away to pine about, and that would have been my current husband and I made sure to employ technics that worked as invisible handcuffs to prohibit any gettin away. I have held the poor guy captive for 35 years and he has given up on being a gotta away.

 

[Oldeagle66]

Yes and I still think about her often. I know the exact moment I blew it and sometimes wish I could go back in time and change it.

 

[C50]

"One that got away"

That's a question I will never have the answer to. When I was young and dating about every girl I went out with I wondered if she would be the one, but I rarely gave the relationship time to mature. I had dozens of reasons to stop dating a girl, but the truth is a was just a lazy dater, even though I thought of myself as being marriage minded. I wanted dating to be easy and fun, the moment I felt obligated or pushed I simply broke it off, bad on me.

I will say I dated some very nice girls, girls who I suspect grew into wonderful women, wives and mothers. There's a couple that really stand out, but that's probably just me romantizing how my life could have been different.

 

[Marcy Sheiner]

I had one boyfriend who was ideal "on paper" and I think of him every time I hear that song, "The Man Who Got Away." And then I was madly in love with someone who unfortunately died young.