We asked members of the BuzzFeed Community who have successfully gotten back with an ex and lived happily ever after to share their stories. Here's what people revealed: 1. "We met in church youth group in 1986 and started dating the next year.
He was my first boyfriend and my first kiss. We dated off and on for about six years but couldn't really figure out how to make it work, so we eventually drifted apart. I met someone else and got married a few years later, and then we divorced in 2020.
After the pandemic, I was looking for someone to hang out with. I knew my first love was still single, so I slid into his best friend's DMs and left him my number. He called a couple of weeks later, and we were back together within a month.
That was three years ago, and things just keep getting better." "That wild, reckless boy who wouldn't settle down with me in our early 20s grew into the most thoughtful, supportive, generous, hardworking man I've ever known. We're both in our mid-50s now and having a blast making up for lost time!" — absepa 2.
"My wife and I separated for a little over a year after about four years of marriage. She stayed in California, and I moved back to Maine (where I was living when I met her on a work assignment in CA). We both saw other people at that time, and the divorce proceedings began.
But when it came time for me to sign the final papers, my hand started shaking, and I realized that the divorce would be the biggest regret of my life. I called off the di.