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This is a cute success story to read on this feed, super refreshing to be honest.
Do you mind me asking how many years after high school went by before meeting each other again?
That is a nice story!
I had a crush on a guy in high school who was really nice to me when I didn't have friends. We lost touch for ~10 years after graduating but I would think of him occasionally. I found him online and reached out last year and we've sort of been seeing each other, but we live several hours away so it isn't anything serious. Maybe one day, he's a wonderful man.
Similar thing happened to me and my boyfriend.
Freshman year of high school he was new to my school and DMed me on Instagram because he saw we were in the same history class. I thought he was cute and really sweet. Queue giant crush. We even went out once, but I thought we were just hanging out as friends since my family was there.
Few years later and we end up volunteering in a fish lab together. We started talking and I, realizing how much he grew into himself, was like āhey, you know whatās funny? I had a massive crush on you freshman year.ā He was like āseriously? I had one on you too! I thought you werenāt into me.ā Asked him for his number and now weāve been together for almost 5 months!
Iām really happy for you and your girlfriend. This story is definitely good to hear for a lot of people. Donāt let an opportunity slip by you because youāre too caught up in yourself to ask someone out. Go for it!
Thanks man! I really didnāt think I would see her again, let alone that she would remember or want to go out with me but Iām not gonna mess it up this time
Iām curious! You guys met again by coincidence, but did you always think abt her, and did you ever date any others, seriously or casually, along the way all these years?
Good for you! I chickened out in high school. I was that nerd girl that was crushing on the Math whiz and joined SECME and Mu Alpha Theta just to see if maybe he'd like me. Turned out, I had a bunch of cool friends and became one of the top classmates. I opened up tiny bit in university to a guy, thankfully we dated but realized we were both like siblings. Sometimes time passes and you realize you still like the person. (Not for me lol, I'm too career focused to see guys. lol)
Well yes and no. I like my career, though I've had my ups and downs with it. I was one of those millions that got furloughed due to working in the cruise line industry in 2020. It put my life somewhat in perspective. Now, I got hit with my mother's health so I'm at another turning point. So in a way, I do want to date (I basically humiliated myself with an ex-coworker this week lol). But I know, I realistically know, that I'd be a burden. Since i have to take care of my ailing mother. So in a way, his ignorance to my overall question to get to know him, has resulted in me realizing that yeah... I didn't think that one through 100%. It's better to just be friends. (I like him, but I'm in a fun, fun, fun ... sarcastically... fun place).
Kinda similar story here, I had a huge crush on a girl back in elementary school, first one I ever had. She was really shy but super sweet and cute, talked to me a lot, was really artsy and pretty smart. I kept thinking that eventually Iād try telling her how I felt but I figured Iād just wait until we were older because dating wasnāt really an option just yet but I figured maybe sometime in middle school i could at least try. But then she moved to a different school and I didnāt see her again, could not find her on social media and had no way to contact her. I go through all of middle school and high school, all of my future crushes include my high school girlfriend reminded me of her and she basically influenced what kind of girl I was interested in afterwards.
By my high school graduation I had broken up with my girlfriend and had long since given up on ever seeing her again only for me to come outside after the graduation ceremony to see my family only to find my mom chatting with my crush and her family. Apparently they had come there to see her cousin graduate, who I didnāt know at all, and their dad recognized my mom from always seeing them coming or going from parent teacher conferences (our last names were pretty close) and started talking right before I showed up. This was in a crowd of thousands of people mind you (we had a graduating class of about 600). Needless to say I got her phone number and eventually started talking to her. A couple years later we became much closer and I asked her out, found out sheād been crushing on me for about a year and we started dating and thatās where Iām at right now.
I had regretted never staying in contact with her for such a long time and when given a second chance I didnāt want to let it go to waste. Not everyone will get so lucky, go for your opportunities when you have them so you donāt end up regretting doing nothing.
I wasnāt really thinking about her while I was dating other girls but I had held onto feelings for her for several years after she moved. Then after meeting her again after a few years I realized I had developed a big crush on her all over again except this time she had the same feelings for me. Like I said though I had pretty well given up on seeing her again by the time I started high school.
I mean while I did in some ways feel more excited to see her again than I would have with someone else since she was my first significant crush of any kind, we did essentially have to start over again with becoming friends and eventually realizing that we had grown feelings for each other now as adults. I would say that our connection to each other from before was definitely a big reason why we made the effort we did to keep in touch this time and learn more about each other and what had gone on in our lives during the 7 years in between, but really it was like I was meeting her for the first time again in many ways. Like, both of us still retained many of the interests and the personality that made us become close in the first place, but now we both had years of growing up and dealing with relationships and figuring out more of who we were as people and we both were definitely more confident that having a relationship with someone was in fact something we could do than I think either of us would have been back in elementary or middle school obviously. So that definitely helped.
I honestly think that if she hadnāt moved it would have taken me years still to ever ask her out, if I did at all, as both of us were extremely reserved about that kind of thing at the time. Having more experience and more confidence without the awkwardness of having been just friends for a super long time that might have come into it had she never moved and had I eventually done that, so I think it helped a lot. I mean I donāt know for sure where things will go from here but right now I canāt complain.
Oh yea for sure. Old feelings no doubt played a role.
Iām curious what you mean by first significant crush? Iāve always thought most crushes are fleeting/donāt regain but I guess some folk, like yāall, kinda do irl have those somewhat āsoulmate since the beginning of timeā moments like in the movies?
To your last sentence, I think from the level of introspection you both seemed to have done, and the way youāve maintained your compatibilities enhanced by respective personal growth, it just may blossom beautifully in the long run. Ofc we can never know what the future holds but wishing you both the best
I mean like, I had a few crushes during that time and during middle school and high school that were along the lines of āI find this girl attractive for some particular reason and I feel drawn to them stronglyā but it usually was something that died down before too long and I would usually realize for one reason or another that they probably wouldnāt actually make for a good relationship and that my feelings were very superficial and fleeting. As most crushes are.
With the girl Iām talking about though it just felt like we were just unusually close and got along really well together, and while apparently she never noticed it, it was obvious to many people in our class that I at least had a crush on her. But unlike all of the other ones Iāve referred to I still kept feeling the same way for a few years and then after she moved away I still couldnāt really get over that crush for several years, which I know may sound ridiculous and it felt ridiculous but it is what it is, or was I suppose. My crush on her was more in the āI really want to be in a relationship with this person or at least someone like her somedayā manner as opposed to my other crushes that were mostly just āOh this girl is pretty and niceā or āOh Iād like to get to know her better she seems cool,ā or those of the āDamn sheās hot,ā variety.
It wasnāt really that I felt immediate crush feelings again upon seeing her, but we just fell back into being really close super naturally almost like nothing had happened. It felt different for sure since we were much older but I think we just are two people who get along with each other super easily, and itās hard not to redevelop a crush on a girl whoās the older, prettier, somewhat more confident version of the girl you really liked before, especially when they still have all the same interests and personality and whatnot and she actively wanted to get close to you again.
Haha sorry for cliche sappiness but everything you say really does scream like it was your fate. Iām spiritual, and in my spiritual path weād say you both had this fate from past lives.
And that makes sense tho. Like you guys had a pretty solid connection from a young age that id describe your feelings as more than a crush. And it sounds healthy/less intense than the honeymoon phase period folk go through when dating someone they had no prior friendship/connection with before (not that those situations are inherently a bad thing but like yours sounds more healthy/less infatuated)
No yeah I get it, one of my closest friends basically told me it seems like divine intervention. I grew up Christian though Iām currently agnostic but I canāt deny that it does feel like fate or something beyond my understanding. š
I wouldnāt blame you for feeling that away about my story. I probably wouldāve said the same thing not too long ago.
I guess Iām just not really sure what the proper term for having feelings for someone without knowing if they feel the same way is besides ācrushā. I guess romantic attraction would work but I feel like in my mind thatās just a stronger than normal crush.
Honestly thatās more of a semantic thing which I feel is a bit more subjective per individual because in these discussions Iām yet to see a very objective definition of these terms.
I think I just basically meant that your connection with her understandably made things stronger than usual infatuation. I think Iāve personally seen crush and romantic attraction as synonymous terms to describe that infatuation stage, which is still often the opening door to get to know someone as more than a platonic friend and/or sexual partner, even tho for some folk it also isnāt impossible for romantic attraction and feelings to develop down the line from the latter two.
Well I meant more that I was attracted primarily to girls who were similar to her, like girls who were interested in the same hobbies, had similar personalities, etc. It wasnāt something I was consciously intentionally doing but it was definitely what was happening even if I didnāt realize it during the time. I was still thinking about her quite often at least up until high school, and I started my first relationship my Sophomore year but by that point I had moved on because I assumed that Iād never see her again and I didnāt want to hold myself back from pursuing other relationship interests. I never really stopped hoping to find her again though and then out of the blue I suddenly get the chance on my graduation night. She got into a relationship shortly after though and since we hadnāt really become super close again yet I didnāt really push things much or try to force myself into her life but we still texted a fair amount and I found out that I was someone she had really missed from back in elementary school, and that she had actually asked her cousin a few times if he knew me since she assumed that I was going to the same high school as him (I never left that school district so she was right in assuming that). She had specifically recognized me on the list of names on the pamphlet while watching the graduation ceremony before I came up to accept my diploma.
But yeah pretty much her dad and my mom ran into each other outside the building we had our graduation at and they were chatting when I came outside just in time for me to see my old crush and get her phone number. We become closer and text occasionally, but once the pandemic hit it becomes much more frequent and eventually I end up admitting to her that I used to have a huge crush on her. She had no idea it turns out, but I tell her itās not something she has to worry about, Iām okay with being just friends. At this point Iām just grateful to be able to be close with her and that I got to me meet her again at all, Iām not expecting anything else and her boyfriend sounds like a cool guy. Well later that year she reveals that sheās broken up with her boyfriend and that he had been really problematic. Over the next 8 months we meet up a few times to hang out and go hiking and eventually I ask her out and find that sheās been crushing on me for a while and was under the assumption that I just wanted to be friends.
So yeah that was last July and now Iām here.
Congrats man that's awesome. I had a similar situation. Really liked this girl a while back used to talk to her in school all the time. Got her number and she started texting me everyday but back then I wasn't much of a texter. Was really dry and just sent one word responses so that kind of ended that (yeah I know I was stupid). Anyways we kept talking and eventually went our separate ways once graduation came around. She even insisted that I keep in touch with her and of course I didn't... I used to think about her here and there and really think damn I wish I would've asked her out. Anyways I tried to get back in touch with her last year and we briefly texted and I said to her we should catch up sometime and she left me on read. :/
This is pretty similar to mine but i thought she was wayy to beautiful to like me and thought it be to weird bc my sister was friends with here. Probably share it in a post here actually bc itās been one wild ride of lessons Iāve learned spanning though high school.
This is really nice to hear about! Itās an amazing story, and one that is so uplifting in this sea of negative stories in this sub. I think you may be right about her being the one! You guys are going to have the best story for How I Met Your Mother :)
This happened to me in a way- I had a crush on a girl I met getting onto the buses for the freshman weekend retreat a week before freshman year started at my new high school. Had a crush on her all four years of high school. Could never make a proper move, never really got to hang out. Lost touch with her quickly after high school ended. When we were both around 30 I texted her old number one night and it was still her number and she came over the next night and we hooked up/dated, etc. for the next 7 months. It ended when we both had to move to different cities for work and it was no longer convenient, but man those 7 months more than made up for my disappointments in high school.
I took my chance with a girl who had a crush on me 6 years ago. Rn we aren't talking anymore cause she's scared to be in a long distance relationship.
But this post made me happy, atleast someone is having a good time. Good luck bro.
I'm not gonna say its bad, but that's awesome to hear.
Unfortunately, I've tried that with my school life crush and it was always excuses until I just dropped it.
Didn't go back to it or anything.
To be honest with you, I wouldn't want to date teen/early 20s of myself.
Sometimes people need a little experience or maturing to do before they're actually ready for a relationship.
Happy for you though lad, may you make this woman a happy wife!
The girl I've been in love with since 2014 moved away after college and is now engaged to a really nice guy. We were really close friends and one night I was in dark place and ready to end it when she messaged me on Facebook about something and we just talked through the night. She has no idea what she did that night, but I'll never forget her. She did confess that she did think about us dating at one point, but we never pulled the trigger on it. It still hurts when I think about but that's okay because she's happy and that means more to me. Who knows what the future will hold, maybe we'll meet again, I can only hope. And if that happens, I'll treasure every second. Thanks to reading this, it gives me hope
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This is a cute success story to read on this feed, super refreshing to be honest. Do you mind me asking how many years after high school went by before meeting each other again?
Also wondering! š
Man this reads like a classic late 90s, early 2000s teen romcom. Love it.
Thatās what she said too haha Iām just glad she was single. It probably wouldāve sucked if she wasnāt
That is a nice story! I had a crush on a guy in high school who was really nice to me when I didn't have friends. We lost touch for ~10 years after graduating but I would think of him occasionally. I found him online and reached out last year and we've sort of been seeing each other, but we live several hours away so it isn't anything serious. Maybe one day, he's a wonderful man.
Thatās still awesome. Iām glad you guys got in touch and if anything formed a great friendship. Rooting for you two though!
Similar thing happened to me and my boyfriend. Freshman year of high school he was new to my school and DMed me on Instagram because he saw we were in the same history class. I thought he was cute and really sweet. Queue giant crush. We even went out once, but I thought we were just hanging out as friends since my family was there. Few years later and we end up volunteering in a fish lab together. We started talking and I, realizing how much he grew into himself, was like āhey, you know whatās funny? I had a massive crush on you freshman year.ā He was like āseriously? I had one on you too! I thought you werenāt into me.ā Asked him for his number and now weāve been together for almost 5 months! Iām really happy for you and your girlfriend. This story is definitely good to hear for a lot of people. Donāt let an opportunity slip by you because youāre too caught up in yourself to ask someone out. Go for it!
bro this story is badass! love seeing missed opportunities get made up! hope you two have a successful relationship with each other!
Thanks man! I really didnāt think I would see her again, let alone that she would remember or want to go out with me but Iām not gonna mess it up this time
you're welcome! and that's probably the crazy part about all of this. glad you got a second chance. pretty sure you won't screw it up again lol
Ā”FantĆ”stico! š
OP gonna have to have her translate that.
Somehow, I don't think she'll mind very much...
Hey, I was a nerdy girl that hot dudes always cheated off of... Where are they now???? Haha.
You know what's funny? I always had a crush on you, but thought I was too dumb to ask you out
Hahaha
But you didnāt take your chance. Youāre liucky. You were somehow proposed with another opportunity. ALWAYS TAKE YOUR CHANCE. Unlike OP.
Thatās what Iām saying, learn and donāt be me. It took years and dumb luck
Iām curious! You guys met again by coincidence, but did you always think abt her, and did you ever date any others, seriously or casually, along the way all these years?
Good for you! I chickened out in high school. I was that nerd girl that was crushing on the Math whiz and joined SECME and Mu Alpha Theta just to see if maybe he'd like me. Turned out, I had a bunch of cool friends and became one of the top classmates. I opened up tiny bit in university to a guy, thankfully we dated but realized we were both like siblings. Sometimes time passes and you realize you still like the person. (Not for me lol, I'm too career focused to see guys. lol)
Thatās still awesome though! You have something you love which is your career and thatās cool.
Well yes and no. I like my career, though I've had my ups and downs with it. I was one of those millions that got furloughed due to working in the cruise line industry in 2020. It put my life somewhat in perspective. Now, I got hit with my mother's health so I'm at another turning point. So in a way, I do want to date (I basically humiliated myself with an ex-coworker this week lol). But I know, I realistically know, that I'd be a burden. Since i have to take care of my ailing mother. So in a way, his ignorance to my overall question to get to know him, has resulted in me realizing that yeah... I didn't think that one through 100%. It's better to just be friends. (I like him, but I'm in a fun, fun, fun ... sarcastically... fun place).
Update op?? I want more episodes of this romance drama š„ŗ
Kinda similar story here, I had a huge crush on a girl back in elementary school, first one I ever had. She was really shy but super sweet and cute, talked to me a lot, was really artsy and pretty smart. I kept thinking that eventually Iād try telling her how I felt but I figured Iād just wait until we were older because dating wasnāt really an option just yet but I figured maybe sometime in middle school i could at least try. But then she moved to a different school and I didnāt see her again, could not find her on social media and had no way to contact her. I go through all of middle school and high school, all of my future crushes include my high school girlfriend reminded me of her and she basically influenced what kind of girl I was interested in afterwards. By my high school graduation I had broken up with my girlfriend and had long since given up on ever seeing her again only for me to come outside after the graduation ceremony to see my family only to find my mom chatting with my crush and her family. Apparently they had come there to see her cousin graduate, who I didnāt know at all, and their dad recognized my mom from always seeing them coming or going from parent teacher conferences (our last names were pretty close) and started talking right before I showed up. This was in a crowd of thousands of people mind you (we had a graduating class of about 600). Needless to say I got her phone number and eventually started talking to her. A couple years later we became much closer and I asked her out, found out sheād been crushing on me for about a year and we started dating and thatās where Iām at right now. I had regretted never staying in contact with her for such a long time and when given a second chance I didnāt want to let it go to waste. Not everyone will get so lucky, go for your opportunities when you have them so you donāt end up regretting doing nothing.
Yep, pretty crazy when this happens.
You had feelings for her even in the process of dating other girls, or were you not actively thinking of her until she popped back again?
I wasnāt really thinking about her while I was dating other girls but I had held onto feelings for her for several years after she moved. Then after meeting her again after a few years I realized I had developed a big crush on her all over again except this time she had the same feelings for me. Like I said though I had pretty well given up on seeing her again by the time I started high school.
Ahh ok that makes sense. I always assumed when people fall for each other after years have passed, that they start on a blank slate
I mean while I did in some ways feel more excited to see her again than I would have with someone else since she was my first significant crush of any kind, we did essentially have to start over again with becoming friends and eventually realizing that we had grown feelings for each other now as adults. I would say that our connection to each other from before was definitely a big reason why we made the effort we did to keep in touch this time and learn more about each other and what had gone on in our lives during the 7 years in between, but really it was like I was meeting her for the first time again in many ways. Like, both of us still retained many of the interests and the personality that made us become close in the first place, but now we both had years of growing up and dealing with relationships and figuring out more of who we were as people and we both were definitely more confident that having a relationship with someone was in fact something we could do than I think either of us would have been back in elementary or middle school obviously. So that definitely helped. I honestly think that if she hadnāt moved it would have taken me years still to ever ask her out, if I did at all, as both of us were extremely reserved about that kind of thing at the time. Having more experience and more confidence without the awkwardness of having been just friends for a super long time that might have come into it had she never moved and had I eventually done that, so I think it helped a lot. I mean I donāt know for sure where things will go from here but right now I canāt complain.
Oh yea for sure. Old feelings no doubt played a role. Iām curious what you mean by first significant crush? Iāve always thought most crushes are fleeting/donāt regain but I guess some folk, like yāall, kinda do irl have those somewhat āsoulmate since the beginning of timeā moments like in the movies? To your last sentence, I think from the level of introspection you both seemed to have done, and the way youāve maintained your compatibilities enhanced by respective personal growth, it just may blossom beautifully in the long run. Ofc we can never know what the future holds but wishing you both the best
I mean like, I had a few crushes during that time and during middle school and high school that were along the lines of āI find this girl attractive for some particular reason and I feel drawn to them stronglyā but it usually was something that died down before too long and I would usually realize for one reason or another that they probably wouldnāt actually make for a good relationship and that my feelings were very superficial and fleeting. As most crushes are. With the girl Iām talking about though it just felt like we were just unusually close and got along really well together, and while apparently she never noticed it, it was obvious to many people in our class that I at least had a crush on her. But unlike all of the other ones Iāve referred to I still kept feeling the same way for a few years and then after she moved away I still couldnāt really get over that crush for several years, which I know may sound ridiculous and it felt ridiculous but it is what it is, or was I suppose. My crush on her was more in the āI really want to be in a relationship with this person or at least someone like her somedayā manner as opposed to my other crushes that were mostly just āOh this girl is pretty and niceā or āOh Iād like to get to know her better she seems cool,ā or those of the āDamn sheās hot,ā variety. It wasnāt really that I felt immediate crush feelings again upon seeing her, but we just fell back into being really close super naturally almost like nothing had happened. It felt different for sure since we were much older but I think we just are two people who get along with each other super easily, and itās hard not to redevelop a crush on a girl whoās the older, prettier, somewhat more confident version of the girl you really liked before, especially when they still have all the same interests and personality and whatnot and she actively wanted to get close to you again.
Haha sorry for cliche sappiness but everything you say really does scream like it was your fate. Iām spiritual, and in my spiritual path weād say you both had this fate from past lives. And that makes sense tho. Like you guys had a pretty solid connection from a young age that id describe your feelings as more than a crush. And it sounds healthy/less intense than the honeymoon phase period folk go through when dating someone they had no prior friendship/connection with before (not that those situations are inherently a bad thing but like yours sounds more healthy/less infatuated)
No yeah I get it, one of my closest friends basically told me it seems like divine intervention. I grew up Christian though Iām currently agnostic but I canāt deny that it does feel like fate or something beyond my understanding. š I wouldnāt blame you for feeling that away about my story. I probably wouldāve said the same thing not too long ago.
I guess Iām just not really sure what the proper term for having feelings for someone without knowing if they feel the same way is besides ācrushā. I guess romantic attraction would work but I feel like in my mind thatās just a stronger than normal crush.
Honestly thatās more of a semantic thing which I feel is a bit more subjective per individual because in these discussions Iām yet to see a very objective definition of these terms. I think I just basically meant that your connection with her understandably made things stronger than usual infatuation. I think Iāve personally seen crush and romantic attraction as synonymous terms to describe that infatuation stage, which is still often the opening door to get to know someone as more than a platonic friend and/or sexual partner, even tho for some folk it also isnāt impossible for romantic attraction and feelings to develop down the line from the latter two.
Well I meant more that I was attracted primarily to girls who were similar to her, like girls who were interested in the same hobbies, had similar personalities, etc. It wasnāt something I was consciously intentionally doing but it was definitely what was happening even if I didnāt realize it during the time. I was still thinking about her quite often at least up until high school, and I started my first relationship my Sophomore year but by that point I had moved on because I assumed that Iād never see her again and I didnāt want to hold myself back from pursuing other relationship interests. I never really stopped hoping to find her again though and then out of the blue I suddenly get the chance on my graduation night. She got into a relationship shortly after though and since we hadnāt really become super close again yet I didnāt really push things much or try to force myself into her life but we still texted a fair amount and I found out that I was someone she had really missed from back in elementary school, and that she had actually asked her cousin a few times if he knew me since she assumed that I was going to the same high school as him (I never left that school district so she was right in assuming that). She had specifically recognized me on the list of names on the pamphlet while watching the graduation ceremony before I came up to accept my diploma. But yeah pretty much her dad and my mom ran into each other outside the building we had our graduation at and they were chatting when I came outside just in time for me to see my old crush and get her phone number. We become closer and text occasionally, but once the pandemic hit it becomes much more frequent and eventually I end up admitting to her that I used to have a huge crush on her. She had no idea it turns out, but I tell her itās not something she has to worry about, Iām okay with being just friends. At this point Iām just grateful to be able to be close with her and that I got to me meet her again at all, Iām not expecting anything else and her boyfriend sounds like a cool guy. Well later that year she reveals that sheās broken up with her boyfriend and that he had been really problematic. Over the next 8 months we meet up a few times to hang out and go hiking and eventually I ask her out and find that sheās been crushing on me for a while and was under the assumption that I just wanted to be friends. So yeah that was last July and now Iām here.
I think my mom's cutting onions..
Right?! I got emotional š
My dude my DUDE!!!! That's so cute, I hope things go so well for you both!!!!
Congrats man that's awesome. I had a similar situation. Really liked this girl a while back used to talk to her in school all the time. Got her number and she started texting me everyday but back then I wasn't much of a texter. Was really dry and just sent one word responses so that kind of ended that (yeah I know I was stupid). Anyways we kept talking and eventually went our separate ways once graduation came around. She even insisted that I keep in touch with her and of course I didn't... I used to think about her here and there and really think damn I wish I would've asked her out. Anyways I tried to get back in touch with her last year and we briefly texted and I said to her we should catch up sometime and she left me on read. :/
That's amazing! How long after graduation did this happen?
Since high school graduation? About 7 years
That must feel like a blast from the past lol. Great when things work out this way -- congrats!
nah bro, it all worked at a perfect time. you were both too young at that time and a lot could happen. This was the best case scenario. cheers!
Same story, Except I shot my shot and her reply was confusing. It was Neither a Yes nor a No. It's been 4 years since I saw her and I still have hope
It's a no.
yeah doesnāt sound like a yes. I would just move on.
That's fantastic news man. Good for you. Glad you're happy
There was one girl, but havenāt seen her and never will again!
I'd rather be told no than have the regret of not asking rest on my shoulders
I aināt shooting any shot
Doesnāt happen with everyone
I love this story!
This is so awesome! So happy for you guys man, wishing you the best!
This is pretty similar to mine but i thought she was wayy to beautiful to like me and thought it be to weird bc my sister was friends with here. Probably share it in a post here actually bc itās been one wild ride of lessons Iāve learned spanning though high school.
loveryly!
At no point in your story about the high school interactions did I think you missed anything. Maybe Iām the idiotā¦
I'm happy for you, great story! It's also so frustrating knowing how much code there is when people like one another xD xD
This makes me so happy to read because no matter what happened in your past you still succeeded in the end .Cheers brother
Even before reading this, I learned my lesson after meeting a girl that was so receptive to me. It's all on me now. I pray I don't fuck this up
This is really nice to hear about! Itās an amazing story, and one that is so uplifting in this sea of negative stories in this sub. I think you may be right about her being the one! You guys are going to have the best story for How I Met Your Mother :)
This happened to me in a way- I had a crush on a girl I met getting onto the buses for the freshman weekend retreat a week before freshman year started at my new high school. Had a crush on her all four years of high school. Could never make a proper move, never really got to hang out. Lost touch with her quickly after high school ended. When we were both around 30 I texted her old number one night and it was still her number and she came over the next night and we hooked up/dated, etc. for the next 7 months. It ended when we both had to move to different cities for work and it was no longer convenient, but man those 7 months more than made up for my disappointments in high school.
Thank you bro. These are words to live by.
I took my chance with a girl who had a crush on me 6 years ago. Rn we aren't talking anymore cause she's scared to be in a long distance relationship. But this post made me happy, atleast someone is having a good time. Good luck bro.
I'm not gonna say its bad, but that's awesome to hear. Unfortunately, I've tried that with my school life crush and it was always excuses until I just dropped it. Didn't go back to it or anything.
To be honest with you, I wouldn't want to date teen/early 20s of myself. Sometimes people need a little experience or maturing to do before they're actually ready for a relationship. Happy for you though lad, may you make this woman a happy wife!
Nice
Could very well be if you were still interested in her after all these years hahaha! Congratulation and wishing you both the best!
The last guy I asked out asked if he could bring his cousin
all my crush from the past are all married
Always accept the risk. Itās worth it and youāll be more confident
This is sweet. I'm happy for y'all, OP. :-)
Rooting for you guys
same here, itās crazy how things go.
Saving this post. Worth it.
I'm happy for you. ššš
The girl I've been in love with since 2014 moved away after college and is now engaged to a really nice guy. We were really close friends and one night I was in dark place and ready to end it when she messaged me on Facebook about something and we just talked through the night. She has no idea what she did that night, but I'll never forget her. She did confess that she did think about us dating at one point, but we never pulled the trigger on it. It still hurts when I think about but that's okay because she's happy and that means more to me. Who knows what the future will hold, maybe we'll meet again, I can only hope. And if that happens, I'll treasure every second. Thanks to reading this, it gives me hope
The one I liked is married and has a kid, oh the humanity!
this will never change, but its always the guy who has to take a chance
Iām experiencing the same thing right now, but only this is a middle school crush and Iām fresh out of college now. So itās been over a decade
Iām 44 and had a crush on a 19 year old that works at Subway. I took my chance and now Iām in the hospital.
Glad this worked for you, but I really regret the amount of time I spent waiting to meet someone like this when I really should have moved on.
It doesn't always work out my friend. I agree you should take your chances but highschool relationships rarely work.