Do you ever wondered about your uni boyfriend?

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I was watching something on tv that made me think about my first uni boyfriend. Also dd is going to uni next year.
I know roughly where he is and he never married or had children. But I often wonder what would have happened if we hadn't split up. I dumped him after 2 1/2 years. Then went abroad. He went on to do MA and PhD.
I'd have a very different life if I'd stayed.
Anyone else?

Not uni because I didn't go but I occasionally Facebook stalk people from the past. I also wonder what would of been like a sliding door effect

Didn't go to uni so nope.

Reader, I married him. Nothing to wonder about there

I kept mine, so no, but I have several a level era boyfriends on Facebook which helps me to appreciate DH even more.

He went to America. He properly got away.

Mine is married with a baby, I’m single and childless.

I’ve had a much more interesting life and career otherwise and I’m happy for him.

We are still friends. Still love each other, just in a very different way now! He’s good friends with my DH, and was a groomsman at our wedding.

Not uni, but I bumped into my first love’s (!) mother in town recently.

He’s doing very well- really pleased to hear! We split amicably as we were both going travelling after school but I often think he is the one that got away.

Married him. I sometimes wonder why 😂 but he's alright.

He's on his company website. He got fat. Mind you, so did I! 😂

My love, through uni, I met before I went.

Came home often during uni, to be with him. We got engaged once I had graduated and got my first job, locally. We bought a house and rented it out until we married.

But I called it off.

Sadly I went to his funeral last year. He was 42.

Of course, that's what the internet is for! I have dummy FB, insta and LinkedIn accounts so I can monitor various people, and have used 192 and Land Registry to know more about their location and financial details. I always come away thinking that I got the best result with DH, but I'm always curious to know what's become of people (but not enough to contact them directly).

I do occasionally think of my uni boyfriend, funnily enough I remembered him for the first time in ages the other day and googled him but he doesn’t have much of an online presence!

I think it’s for the best we didn’t work out. We had a pretty toxic relationship (I was just as bad as him, to be fair). I was thinking just today actually of the time he told me I was much better looking from the front than the side and that I was “pretty but not beautiful”. What a charmer 😂

I was in touch with mine till relatively recently. He has kids similar age to mine, lives abroad, now divorced.

Yeah I think about him a fair bit and we’re still in touch on birthdays and Christmas. He never married or had kids and his long term partner died when they were about 40. She was lovely, they were both at our wedding. I’m still in touch with his mum almost 30 years later, she told me she wishes he had my life and be married with children etc. I think he’s quite lonely, I’d love to spend some proper time with him and catch up on life.

I married mine and had 5 dc.

I reconnected with my uni boyfriend about 15 years ago, we'd both married and divorced. He was the same intelligent, deep and interesting man I knew back then but still arrogant and selfish. He'd also developed a cruel streak and was very bitter about how his life had turned out. Very glad I didn't marry him.

He’s CEO of a FTSE 500 company. I’m still glad I left him for DH though. He really wasn’t a very nice person. He’s married with two sons. I pity his poor wife!

No. I see him - and his wife - usually once a year at a group gathering. Not bad considering we split up 39 years ago.
But I did stick with my 2nd university boyfriend, and we have been married 35 years. The two them have known each other for 40 years!

He’s lying next to me. We actually went our separate ways after Uni but reunited after 20 years. We’ve been married for 2 years now.

Well now I am! He seems to be doing well for himself, has a research position at a good university (not the one we met at) and is married. We've had no direct contact since we broke up, this is from friends/Google stalking.

I cheated on him with now-DH and still feel guilty about that.

I wonder about old boyfriends, yes, including uni ones. It was a long time ago now! There is one I see around, one who is dead, and as for the rest, I don't remember their surnames to try and look them up, so I guess I'll never know lol.

There were none that were long-term options though, so there are no "what if"s.

1st uni boyfriend seems to have a pretty great life - he moved to another European country for work, settled there in a really beautiful location with an interesting job and is married to a woman he met there and they have a couple of kids.

2nd uni boyfriend is sitting on the sofa discussing Doctor Who with our youngest child.

As far as I'm aware he's never had a long term partner or children. He was on my facebook page for a while, clearly living a much more bohemian life than I ever have. Essentially we wanted different things. He was happy travelling, taking shortish term jobs abroad and I wanted a full on career. It was an odd relationship, neither of us fully committing. I know he cheated on me. With much heartbreak I forgave him then came close to doing it myself a year later. I guess it was never meant to last.

Yes. He has a nice wife. No kids - fertility issues.
We met once in a while with work.