Are you still mourning a past relationship even though you've moved on?

I am VERY happy with my current girlfriend--happy enough to put a ring on it soon--but every now and then, my brain plays back breakup scenes of horror like the day I came home to an empty house...with a note. Funny, I thought I was married. That would be followed by months of legal wranglings and therapy. They aren't legit "flashbacks" but I just recall those things.

Or, perhaps, the final moments of my relationship with my college girlfriend or high school girlfriend.

Sometimes, my brain is the DVR from Hell. It works ok...but it has its moments.

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JestAJester · 31-35, M

I suppose here and there I look back to that "one" relationship. The one where I felt happy to be alive. Felt like the luckiest guy in the world. Didn't think something this great could ever happen to me. I look back with some regret but I also know that I did not do anything wrong. I may not have done as much as I could have but I didn't make a major mistake. I guess I look back because it was the first time and only time I ever felt like that and I've never gotten anywhere close to that same feeling again.