Who was your "One that got away?"

I don’t know if I’d go that far, but there were a few with potential that I wonder what we might have made of that under different circumstances. Probably nothing as nice as the pleasant memories they are to me now.

Hmmm. Not really 'the one that got away' but a huge 'what if'.
He was one of my best pals in high school. At 14, 15 or friendship was a bit flirty but i was very shy and totally inexperienced and all the girls adored him and he began dating a friend of mine at 15.
In the 6th form, we became close mainly due to our similar tastes in music.....and him constantly teasing me for liking some bands he thought uncool. He wrote me songs, sat in the cafe with me bunking off school. There was something quite wonderful between us, but...he was still dating my pal. I dated a friend of his for a short while, but our friendship was unaffected.
Then one day, when we were 17, someone told me he'd professed to them he loved me. It tainted things... coz....although i knew he did and i felt the same.... i was pertified to loose what we had. He was hurt i backed awsy from him...not knowing i'd been told what hed said. Months past and we hardly spoke.
He split up with his gf around about this time and one night, at a party he grabbed me saying we needed to talk. Another friend tried to warn me off....his ex was there and i 'needed to remember who my friends were and where my loyalites lay'
He told me he loved me and we held each other and danced together for about half hour. We shared our one and only kiss.
Things were never the same after that. He left school, i began dating an older guy.
We were still friends....but i guess we'd lost our window.
40 years later we are still in touch. He settled in Canada and when he comes home to visit family we still meet up. We get on like we did as teens and our hugs are just the best.
So.....if we'd dated....would we still have this lovely friendship? I doubt it. X

Awww that’s too bad that you were too shy. 🤗

I don’t think I have s one that got away, although I was a one that got away for an ex of mine who tried several times to get me back later in life and I considered it a bit, he unfortunately died in March. 😞

At the risk of sounding like a copycat, I really don’t have a ‘one that got away’

But I am the one that got away for someone else….(he has told me numerous times)
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I met "the one who makes the rest of the world cease to exist" 10 years after getting married. Pretty sure I have to let it go

No one. I had a “what if” though. We both still wonder sometimes.

Yes she was a few years older than me and we met on EP. She traveled about ten hours to meet and we spent a weekend together. She was one of the best lovers I have ever been with. We maintained a LDR for about a year until things went south. We will always remain friends and have those sweet memories to fall back on

Me, I'm the one that got away.

I never had one get away, but there was one lovely girl I have wondered about for years. Her family was dirt poor, living in a shack on my grandfather's farm. I only saw her a few times, and one of those was when she was running away. She was a natural blond beauty, but I doubt if she ever got an education or had much of an opportunity in life. I hope that is not true, but I have always wondered about her.

Don't really have one. At least not that I can remember. There were a few people I found very attractive and never got together with, but I'd say I was never close enough to them to consider them as having "got away".

Your post gave me a thought. I've been shy my entire life. Crippling so. People with depression must get tired of being told to "snap out of it". I feel the same way when someone tells me that about my being so bloody withdrawn.

It ain't that easy.

A girl who I met and fell in love with that lived on the other side of the country. We were making the long distance thing work surprisingly enough, especially since we were seniors in high school, until i screwed it all up. There had been a girl at home who I had a crush on for years that had finally started taking an interest in me and I was too selfish, young and immature to think things through and realize just how much I had fallen in love with the girl on the other side of the country. My single greatest fuckup and regret to date.

Thank God I was the one who got away.

Truth be known i chased them away

"One that got away" is such a weird saying. 😆 It sounds as if I was some kind of psycho stalker or something.

One of my worst memories is realizing I went over to brag to the girl I had attached my heart to. My little 10 year old heart couldn't handle overhearing that she was going to hide the results of a competitive tests that she completely under performed in I was going to brag about being near the top. I had to stop myself from falling over from the daze and shame when I heard that I was going to hurt someone I had kinda fallen in love with.

I left that town one a half months later trying to get time to talk with her but failing. In the end, it's just an awful memory with a character trait embedded into my system. I have never bragged of my achievements since that day as a point of pride.

Mine was to me a very special girl we worked together but I never had the courage to tell her how I felt

Well, I didn't want to say but...... it's you 😢

From the first time I saw you across the sticky SW floor, I knew you were the one for me bby 😍

I had a few, but unbeknownst to me, I had an Ex who would bully them away and I never got the chance to date them.

Mine are more like "they all got away"😁

Live in itself is full of what ifs 😊

First work husband.

They never escape me

She was beautiful in every way but we had distance between us and slowly lost touch. In the day of Facebook I've tried searching for her but no joy.

😞 missed connection 🚉 i saw you on the subway and our eyes met 👁👄👁 i thought you were choking 🤗 you put up a good fight 😍 please return my calls ☎💔