Shoulda been stories
 

Halloween my senior year.


Shoulda hit that.

yea- there are times when I should have just talked to guys and things probably would have happened- and then things happened later- and the guys were like- why didn't you just SAY something?? lol i was like- dude it was high school! In college there were boys here and there but nothing crazy- i might think of a particular story

i def feel you though

My first non-high school boyfriend. We went out a few months and our relationship was amazing. I won't lie. Yet we never did anything and never even dropped the L bomb. Right before I left for college he decided he couldn't handle long distance and promptly broke my heart. A week later he said he was so sorry and that he wished he never had done it.
We started talking again seriously a couple years later. We had always been friends. He said that he really wanted for us to have another go. I was seeing someone at the time, but told him that I wanted that too. Then he announced he was enlisting in the Air Force. He said that if I would take him back, he would try to be stationed close by. If I wouldn't, he would do his best to go off as far away as possible. We never did hook back up.
Well, life often has other plans for us. He has told my sister on a few occasions that he loves me more than anything and that he will never be with another person because they don't compare. After the way he freaked out and fled, it's hard to trust him. He is stationed less than 2 hrs from here, but we have no plans to ever get back together. It is nice to think what might have happened though. :(

Spring sophomore year: I met the most handsome man in the world. A few weeks later we were introduced, but I was too shy to do anything. Junior year I saw him in a bar. We talked. I asked him if he remembered my name. He said, "I can't remember the name of every beautiful woman I meet." It reads as corny, but it was as close to magic as I have ever experienced. I often wonder what ever became of him.

Sophomore year of college, my boyfriend and I were on a "break." I started casually dating someone else - the male version of me. We had EVERYTHING in common - like to a freaky degree... needless to say, he was amazing! :)

We go home for Christmas shortly after we start dating - I am in the same city as the ex, he is several states away. I didn't really know if he was that into me and the ex and I get back together.

Two years later (still with the ex/boyfriend), I'm talking to the male-me and he tells me that he was crazy about me, and still is.

Six months later, my boyfriend and I break up, but he has a new girlfriend by then.

I've always thought of him as the "one that got away." We just talked for the first time in the last two years. Hopefully I will see him again soon!

The second day of second semester freshman year, I went to my freshman honors seminar and found myself sitting across from the most gorgeous guy I'd ever seen. His name was Ryan. Around lunchtime I was sitting in the computer lab in my dorm with my friend Allyson, telling her all about this gorgeous guy I met in class when lo and behold, guess who sent me a BITNET message! (BITNET was kind of the precursor to instant messaging...that's the easiest way to explain it.) Unfortunately, he ended up dropping the class but it turned out that he lived in the same dorm as I did, so we saw each other around quite a bit and got to be pretty good friends.

There was always tons of chemistry between us...but we never dated. In fact, he dated what seemed like every female from the Chicago area who was in the journalism school...except for me. I gave him a hard time about it more than once. ;)

And when he had a problem with these women, guess who he'd come running to for advice? He'd be sitting there telling me his latest tale of woe and I'd be the understanding friend...but inside I was like :mad:, wanting to scream "HEY! YOU IDIOT! I'VE BEEN IN LOVE WITH YOU FOR YEARS AND I'D NEVER TREAT YOU LIKE THAT!" I never did, though.

We lost touch when I left IU the first time around. I think he is married now.

I had a crush on a boy named John from 2nd grade all the way through high school. We were in all the same accelerated classes in high school and he always teased me about my boyfriends from other schools (who were all LOSERS). At our 5 year class reunion, when we were both married, he told me he had a crush on me all through school too, but that I always had boyfriends from other schools. I would have dropped any one of them for him at any time! Dang boys, ask the girl out for crying out loud. The worst that can happen is that she'll say no.

He wasn't at our 20 year reunion... I think classmates.com says he's in Minnesota now. Oh well!

Dee

Last August, I started dating this guy who, had he not been so screwed up from his ex-girlfriend dumping him, I bet I could have been very happy with. He blew me off after a few weeks when he thought he might be able to get back together with the ex, but then several months later I found out he he still really liked me and realized his mistake. Oh well. It was one of those cases where the timing was so off, it wasn't even funny. I'm interested in at least three other guys now, and my best friend thinks she's in love with him, so nothing will ever happen now.

There's this guy at work I really care about, but I don't date co-workers. Been there, done that, don't wanna go back. So, I guess he's my shoulda, coulda guy. We get along great, have an amazing chemistry, and most importantly we're really close friends. But, we both realize that working together and dating is too hard. Anyway, I would never want to lose Greg as a friend.

Sometimes, it's hard for us to be around each other because we end up flirting and having our arms around each other....sigh. That's why whenever any of us go out for drinks and Greg shows up, I go home early. I don't want to be stupid and ruin our friendship because I get a little "friendly" when I have a couple of drinks in me.

My thoughts are: If it's meant to happen, it will.

PM_Mama, did that guy and the ex end up getting back together???

You sound like you are living my life. There's another guy from work who's one of my best friends, that I care a lot about too, but I'm afraid to say anything in case I ruin the friendship. Plus, I, too, have done the workplace dating thing (see previous post) and don't want to repeat my mistake.

Good luck!!

I had the biggest crush on this guy straight through high school... we had some classes together freshman year and then some more senior year... one of which he sat right behind me so we used to flirt all the time... at Proj Grad I had the opportunity to do something like ask him out or tell him to call me... but I was at that point in my life way too scared to do anything... and I always wonder what might've been....

not a guy, but there were 3 chicks back in college i wanted to date seriously.....my current girlfriend is one of them.

Okay, this was freshman year in the early fall. The leaves were still green, but some were starting to change colors. It was cool enough to wear jeans or shorts, but usually with t shirts, not time for sweaters yet.

On the steps in front of Porterfield hall, looking over at trees, me and this girl, Bethany, for no other name could substitute, and I were talking about things. Random things at first, and then we started talking about our first times, etc. And then the perfect way to fall in love. So we lean in to kiss each other. Right by the door was a stack of newspapers. So Jordan, a mutual friend comes out to get one right as we are about to kiss. Jordan sees she is interupting something so leaves, but Bethany realizes she is late for work. We make plans to see each other the following day. Well that night or the next day before I see her she checks her email. And it is her ex, who, after about a month or so of not even talking to her, sends through email "hey baby I miss you." He had moved from VA to CA and hadn't spoken to her since. Doesn't even call just sends email. And anyway, he being a grad at the top his class from UVA law and Bethany being some five years my seinor, he wins her. :(

omg! :eek:

Yup, my first love, my college sweetheart was the one that got away. Even though I am married, I still think about him from time to time. You never forget your first love, ya know!

So yesterday a guy I dated a bit almost two years ago e-mailed me out of the blue. Haven't thought about him in a long time...

One night I met a cheerleader at the ATM. I invited her to my house because we were having a party. We had a great time. We had alot in common. She was in love with me and I was in love with me too. It was perfect. At the end of the night we agreed to get together the next day. We were going to have sex. At least that was the plan or I should say my plan.

The next day I was on campus and I spotted the cheerleader. I started walking toward her and she was walking toward me. The only thing missing was Chariots of Fire music in the background. As we started getting closer my girlfriend comes out of nowhere and is standing between and the cheerleader. I should have chose the cheerleader.