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Yea, and I bet like me you thought life could not get any lower when the break-up came. With time though came wisdom.

Although I do know what you mean, that's really not how it went. She kinda latched onto me and threatened any other girl that came near me. I liked her OK as a friend at first, but was uncomfortable with her persistance that we be "exclusive". However, she told me that she would kill herself if I ever broke up with her. I didn't have the strength or the nerve to tell her how I really felt. I wound up getting her pregnant my senior year and then we had another baby a couple years later. Finally, she decided she wanted someone else and I couldn't have been happier for myself, but heartbroken for my kids.

I did later meet someone who broke my heart when we split, but we both came to realize that we were meant to be together. Now I've been happily married to her for nearly 20 years and my life couldn't be better.

Yikes! that story makes my “dear John Letter” moment seem normal and just part of growing up. `

Though while I was drowning my sorrows in the Navy, trying not to think about the punk she left me for, he was giving her a serious case of non curable Herpes and a child before she finally wised up and left him. I'm sure there were allot of “If only” thoughts in her mind over those first years.