I see threads pop up on here from time to time where people still carry a torch for someone from their past, perhaps even decades later. Sometimes this is just fond memories and nostalgia and other times there seems to be real regret and longing for people and the concept of having the "one that got away" in your past is something seen as fairly universal.
It's not that I can't imagine or understand that being the case its just that I don't have that experiance. I did meet my husband quite young at 20 but I dated from the age of 13 and had a 2 year relationship in my mid teens with a boy a few years older as well as other shorter relationships, crushes, almost things but not quite. I did not fall in love with anyone until I met my husband, although I was heavily invested in my teenage long term boyfriend at the time but never felt anything like the love I do for my husband with him. I remember very clearly the sense of falling deeply in love for the first time with my husband.
I regard my early relationships as a useful learning experiance and I probably dodged a few bullets but I have no ill will for any of them and I rarely think of them except when other people speak of their own relationship regrets and lost loves.
Anyone else not have a one that got away?