When "the one" doesn't think YOU are "the one"

[amanda6035]

Originally Posted by Bluetiful

What happened? Where did you find yourself months/years later after "the one" told you that you were not "the one" for him/her? Did you ever find someone else who thought you were "the one?" Does anyone have a happy ending to share- yours or anyone else's?

I have a happy ending I dont know if it's quite the kind of story you were looking for though.

I met Jonny in May 2000 while we were both stationed on the USS Rainier in Bremerton WA.We started dating, and long story short...timing and circumstances were just all wrong. We'd been together a little over 6 months (I told you didnt think it was QUITE the kind story you were asking for) We broke up not on the best of terms - lot of things were left unsaid, unfinished. He left the boat toward the end of 2001 to go to his next duty station, and we went our separate ways.

I was 19 when I met him, and even to this day, knowing how stupid and silly I was at 19, I was crazy about him. I had convinced myself that we WERE supposed to be together, but I also had enough common sense to know that I was young, and I could have been wrong. I told him when we broke up that he was going to miss me.

Fast forward to October 2004. I'm out of the service, living close to campus, doing the school and sorority thing, and my mother calls. She says there is a message for me on the answering machine at home from "A Jonny from the navy." So, I wrote down his number and contemplated calling him. 4 years had healed some wounds, I certainly hadn't waited around on him. Luck would have it that I wasnt involved seriously with anyone at the time. So...I called him back, we did the "how are you, what have you been up to, blah blah blah" phone calls and had 3-4 hour conversations for the next 2 weeks. He was living in Virginia, on another ship, he was still active duty in the navy.

So, we made plans for him to come visit me that weekend, and from there...things *just* happened. We maintained a LDR for almost 3 years...and during that time, suffered a 7 month deployment overseas. He moved to GA permanently upon separating from the navy in August 2007, and we were married in October.