Recently, we shared some stories from older adults who opened up about "the one who got away." In the comments, members of the BuzzFeed Community shared their stories of lost love, too. Some of these stories are heartbreakingly tragic, some worked out for the best, and some hold valuable lessons in love.
Here's what they had to say: 2. "She wasn’t the one that got away, but rather, she dumped me after we had been an exclusive couple for about 15 months. I was 18 (freshman in college), and she was 16 (high school senior) when we first started dating.
We fell madly in love with each other, and it felt like my whole world revolved around her. She was my first serious girlfriend and my first true love. But the following year, when she moved away to start her freshman year at college, she came home at Thanksgiving and ended our relationship.
" "She had gone on a couple of dates with a guy she met in her dorm, and she wanted to be free to date other guys and experience all that college life had to offer. The breakup devastated me. I thought for sure we would get married one day and live happily ever after.
I have been happily married for 40 years, but I still think about this old girlfriend on a regular basis. She actually did both of us a favor by ending our relationship because, in looking back on it, we were both too young and inexperienced to be seriously considering marriage. After I got over our breakup, I had four or five somewhat serious relationships with other women.
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