Giving my now fiance a chance. We met in high school and I HATED him based on his reputation, but we clicked right away and I realized he was a completely different person than he seemed. All of my friends had the same impression of him that I first did and refused to give him a shot. We've now been together for about 8 years, have an amazing life together, and those 'lifelong friends' I had dumped me during the hardest part of my life during college and haven't talked to me since.