Do you have a 'one that got away' story?

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I personally don't, my current boyfriend is my first serious boyfriend. 😊

An "one that got away" is basically someone that left you for whatever reason (dying is not one of them but for example, moving away is) and you still love them.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

Yes, in 2019 I met a guy I was insanely attracted to. We called him “Robocop” cause it was in a Security job.

He was like a supervisor. I was his employee. We worked together for almost 2 years. 2019-2020 . He left early 2021.

I always felt like I never had a chance with him. He was so hot and looked like Brad Pitt. He was doing almost all the girls at the site.

I believe at some point in time he was interested in me. But just interested in “sex” with me. By late 2019-2020.

I didn’t give in to him, because I knew he just wanted action. And to later dispose of me like a rag doll. Like a blowup doll.

I was so attracted to him for those 2 whole years. That I lost myself in that illusion. It was honestly like being delusional for over 2 years. Nothing mattered to me. My boring, mediocre life didn’t matter. He’s the only thing that mattered. The anticipation of sex with him was like a drug.

I think I even fell in love with him because of how obsessed I was with him for 2 years. When he quit I couldn’t even probably say goodbye to him because of how much that hurt. I never , not once, was intimate with him unfortunately. I was 22 at the time. he's THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY. 😔

I made YouTube story times about him. I can message you if you want to hear those. 🫶

kylee2437 · Accepted Answer

Yes I do but I feel like me and him were both in immature stages of our lives and I am glad he is happy he found someone that matches his outlooks. Hopefully treats her way better than he treated me

ChicoFromThe305 · Accepted Answer

I've had a few actually, I've got a level of paranoia that can sabotage shit, I don't regret it tho cause I'm not walking down the love path blindly, whatever happened, it happened for a reason, because even tho they seemed perfect, they had flaws which I was able to accept but they weren't very accepting of mine which only shows they aren't the correct match for me, I hope they are well and hope they find what they seek but I know somewhere is a woman ima click with and I've used these other people as stepping stones, I never got out of it empty handed because I've learned things I can use for the woman I'll wife up, so I thank God for the experiences and I thank them for the opportunity, its unfortunate it ended the way it did but till this day they have my loyalty as a friend, i wish them well.

Joker_ · Accepted Answer

yeah lol they were lucky there was people nearby

AviatorTom · Answer

By my age, we've all had at least one that got away.

Sonorous · Answer

In a way, I suppose so.

exitseven · Answer

There was a girl I was really in love with in high school. I only saw her in the summer. I was too afraid to tell her how I felt. When I went to college I did not see her for two years. I never forgot about her. After freshman year I was not sure I wanted to go back to school. I went up to see her. It had been two years and she was even prettier than she was. I asked her out and we were going out the next night. I had this whole speech in my head about how I felt about her and if she felt the same I would move there and find a job and maybe we would get a place together.

She stood me up on the date, I went back to college and I never saw her again.

SportySpock · Answer

Not now but I did previously. Though it wasn’t her choice to leave.

We started dating when I was 12 and she was 15. She was the first girl I ever dated. And we liked each other so much she ended up seducing me, so she was also the first one I ever had sex with. And no, it wasn’t illegal lol

About a year into it, she thought she was pregnant at 16. I was 13 so no way in hell of taking care of a baby. She tried to teach me to drive her new car and I crashed it so her parents were bugging out. Legal trouble too because I was only 13. They moved back to Indiana where they had come from.

I missed her but didn’t really know what to do because she was the first girl I ever dated and I was so young. She did contact me back a few years ago (I’m 26 now; she’s 29.) and we caught up a bit on the phone. Weird, I guess 🤔

Funny how when you’re young you think you love someone and you don’t know shit lmao

normalice · Answer

My lab mate in undergrad. Boned her a few times and she was really hot but due to an accumulation of minor annoyances that were almost completely in my own head I stepped away. Felt bad for it and still do a little bit. In all alternate timeline I'd give my past self some very important advice on that matter, but alas..

Anonymous · Answer

You mean the “Great White Buffalo?” No. I thought I did in high school because I tried to do everything I could to make her happy. So when she cheated I thought it was me. She got knocked up. He left her. She came back. I stupidly took her back because I believed it was my fault she left. Then she ended up back w him. Went on for a while. I finally realized she was just a slut. Toxic.

AydenHazor · Answer

Nope, looking back, almost all of my past relationships have been unhealthy in some manner, I've been cheated on in several and was abused in one. I'm still friends with several of my exes, but I know I'm definitely better off exes and friends than in the relationships we had had.

Still-alive · Answer

there's pretty girls who unfortunately I couldn’t work out the nerve to try asking out before if that counts lol.

there's also been times where I've had feelings for a girl but she didn’t reciprocate.

i don’t know if id call any of them ‘the one’ though. They were just women i had strong attraction for. Mainly physically

Sonjita · Answer

Yes, I do and he is married now and has a baby daughter. He is living in another city. We never contact each other. It's been almost 2 years since we broke up and I still think about him every day.

ProbablyClueless · Answer

My "one that got away" was this girl I crushed on in high school. I never actually stood chance with her (so maybe she's not really the one that got away?), but I always wondered what would have happened if we dated. Probably nothing good, honestly. As life has gone on, she's turned out to be a little bit of a bully.

Anonymous · Answer

Girl I worked with while I was dating my ex-wife. She was prettier, and more intelligent than my ex-wife...

I had broken up with my ex-wife, mostly due to a fear of commitment. I got back with her a literal week later.

In the time that I was single, this coworker broke up with her girlfriend (she was bi) and the day after I got back with my ex-wife, she tried to ask me out...

I still think about her. In retrospect, she might have been a better option than my ex-wife...

OfMiceandMen · Answer

Just one, she had to leave because work transferred her. That sucked, I was miserable for weeks without her.

OnlyMeee · Answer

Well. My first wife left me on the actual day of my 4th wedding anniversary if that counts 🥹

MikeTheBartender · Answer

Nope. I've had plenty I wish things went better or further, but no one that felt like the one.

Bricealan · Answer

Everyone has that, I think. Mine was in my late 20's and we should have married, EVEN though I would have felt that she 'settled' for me, after sex with a few others that she found more attractive. We had great sex

DJB72 · Answer

Assuming you're 19 like your profile says, give it time: everyone has a missed love.

SunnyRS · Answer

No I don't think I have one.  If it doesn't work out it wasn't meant to be, the notion of the one that got away doesn't come to my mind.

LunarEclipse433 · Answer

Yes. But as I got older I realize everything happens for a reason

Slim57 · Answer

Definitely not. All the past ones haven't worked out for good reason.

AmeerX · Answer

No, never. I would rather eat sand then to think like this

Worst · Answer

I've never loved anyone

JackCarter · Answer

LoL thankfully no, married my first love

Anonymous · Answer

No if anything i dodged a shit ton of red flagged women

DryGermanGuy · Answer

Story of my life. 😂🤬

BLP11520 · Answer

Yes , she broke my heart I was 22

Anonymous · Answer

Yep a girl from college

Ms_Facesitter · Answer

Luckily I don't!

Bigjake1995 · Answer

Yes ugh

LavLavLuv · Answer

Nope

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