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Anyone ever get back together with their first love after years and years apart?
Needanewkitchen · 12/06/2014 08:33
I gave a possible opportunity to get back in contact with my first love after nearly 20 years. I'm separated with 2 young dc, he's currently single.
I've thought of him often, and would describe as my most significant ex, the one I loved the most. I have no idea how he feels 
I'll decide what to do eventually, but just curious if there is anyone out there who did end up back with their first love, how it happened and if it worked out.....
WatchingFromTheWings · 03/09/2016 22:13
I did! We were together for 2.5 years in school (A-level age). Split up just before we left school. NC for 15 years, both had other relationships and 2 kids each. Got talking via Facebook. 6 years on we have a 5yo DS, getting married in May.
Fcukthetww · 02/10/2016 01:22
I married mine. Dated in high school, then it fizzled out. Met again 15 yrs later and the rest is history x
MoominKitten · 02/10/2016 05:42
Yes, twice. Split up each time for the same reasons. Took us three goes to learn that we couldn't get past some basic differences in outlook/values/life goals.
stupid123 · 09/10/2016 22:09
Fcukthetww & WatchingFromTheWings - happy for you both.
Tell us more how you hooked up again, and what the first meeting after 15 years apart was like.....
Fcukthetww · 10/10/2016 19:26
We met in a pub I was working at. to be honest it was odd seeing him again and I will confess I didn't immediately recognise him 🙈 I think if we'd been together from school I wouldn't have appreciated him, whereas now having kissed a fair few frogs I recognised when I found a goodun. This time round we've been together 6 years, married 1 and ttc our first
stupid123 · 24/10/2016 21:48
good luck ttc your first kid - good fun practicing too :-)
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GrinchyMcGrincherson · 31/10/2016 22:05
My cousin did. They dated as teens, split up but remained friends. Life happened then 15 years later the friendship became romance again. They got married last week and we all wonder what took them so long!
Babydontcry · 25/11/2016 22:19
Yes I did after 15 years, 5 years later we have a five month old son.
hedwig2001 · 25/11/2016 22:49
I did, after 8 years apart. We have been happily married for 23 years and have a teenage son.
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Mukama009 · 07/10/2017 11:15
Three years ago a bumped into my ex college boyfriend after 20 years. We met in air port bus. We hugged and exchanged contacts. Despite the justifiable reasons for our breakup and kids we have from our other relationships we feel madly in love and would like to get back to each other as we are both still single. We feel we are genuinely miss each other. We are both approaching fifty but we feel we can really enjoy each others company the rest of our lives
Crunchymum · 07/10/2017 12:53
I know this a zombie thread but hey ho.
Was with my 'first love' for 3 years but it fizzled out when I went to uni.
He remained friends with my brother and I saw him sporadically over the years. We both ended up in LTR (no kids or marriage). Both split up with out partners around the same time, both moved back in with our parents. I bumped into him one night at pub throwing out time and we are now a decade, a house and 2 kids (3rd one due in a few months) down the line
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mm2one · 14/03/2018 00:01
Yes. I know a person who did and it turned out very well in her case. I guess it depends on the situation.
DawnMumsnet · 14/03/2018 08:22
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