Unrequited Love

[Neapolitan Ice Cream]

Anyone have a childhood crush that never went anywhere? Not as in an actor or singer, but a real person in your life?

Two here.

 

[fla4fun]

Anyone have a childhood crush that never went anywhere? Not as in an actor or singer, but a real person in your life?

Two here.

One here. It was a long one too, from about the age of eight to the age of eighteen. The highlight of my last year in school was being included on the guest list for their graduation party. We were casual friends, but nothing more came of it. I do wonder what ever became of them . . .

 

[LuvOrlando]

Oh my, endless supply of imaginary true loves from about 4th grade through 8th grade when I first started dating by meeting BFs at the Mall, like we all did back then.... it was a swarming vat of Aquanet, Drakkar Noir, Liz Claiborne and cigarette smoke. Many fond memories of getting chased out of Hello Kitty stores and lingering over bad jokes at Spencers

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

Yes, I had one. It was my mom's best friend's son.

I really went nuts about 8th grade. I am guessing I was painfully obvious with my behavior. I was in 8th grade, he was in college, so yea it went NOWHERE of course. At least he would be polite enough to talk to me sometimes if I cornered him.

this many years later I still Facebook stalk him from time to time

 

[TiggerTrigger]

The ones that have been on my mind of late aren't fully an unrequited situation, but more that time and a toxic environment got the better of us before we could really explore to see if it could be something more. So, kind of mixes of unrequited and the ones that got away. I'm happily married, but they're the kind of people that you wonder about if you were ever single down the road and fate just happened to bring you back together in a place when time and toxicity were no longer obstacles.

 

[disneydreamer1980]

I was in love for all of middle school and into the 9th grade with this one boy who didn’t know I existed. I mean, really obsessed with him (not in a creepy way though lol). Then, I ended up “blossoming” and having my choice of boys, and kind of forgot about him. He ended up asking me to prom our senior year saying he had a crush on me all throughout high school lol. I told him I used to have a crush on him in middle school but unfortunately I already had a prom date. It was so funny to my BFF that after I had pined over him for years, he ended up asking me to prom and I turned him down.

 

[mylilnikita]

So in elementary school there was a boy named Kurt. 1st into 2nd grade he was my boyfriend lol. He lived nesr us and we would be at his house with his mom or my house. He told me we would grow up get married and live under the sea lol.
I moved away. Years later in high school I had moved back and he was in one of my classes and I recognized him instantly.
But by then i didn’t like high school boys so I remained friendly but that was it.
A few more years pass: I’m at McDonald’s before they sucked and he was there. He had joined the military and was stationed here. We would hang out only because I was in a relationship. We would hang out with guys from school.

He has to go out in deployment and we write but he ended up meeting someone in the ship and we lost touch.
Years ago by and the last time I saw him was at like Kmart. We were both married and he said where he was working and to come by sometime. I regretted later not doing it evens just to see him one last time.

Time again goes by and one big I have a very vivid dream about him.
So I google jsit for the heck of it: He had died of cancer at a young age and was buried in the cemetery across from where I lived.

 

[texaslover]

My roommates and I moved in next to a couple of boys my sophomore year in college. My first look at him was seeing him running through the parking lot with a beer in his hand while his roommate tried to lasso him (TX y'all lol). We became good friends with all of the people in our little apartment building and hung out all the time. We at some point became friends with benefits which carried on way too long . We had classes together all through college, were in the same business fraternity, and just generally enjoyed each other. Problem? I was incredibly in love with him and he was not with me. However, he was always kind and we just generally vibed in every situation. He got engaged our senior year. We had several encounters that year where we met up in different situations and just talked and talked and hung out. I remember going to his apartment the day he was graduating and moving out, being engaged and starting his life. Last time we ever talked in person and it was great and probably not appropriate conversation for someone about to get married. I can distinctly remember driving home from that meeting crying my eyes out and having that realization that this is it; there was something there and I don't know what I could have done but there is no turning back now. I've never seen him in person since.

We have Facebook messaged each other over the years and kept up with each other. He's divorced now and I'm remarried. He's the only person I've ever met who I think could have been "the one". Not everyone gets their true happily ever after, a lot of us get our happily enough.

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

So in elementary school there was a boy named Kurt. 1st into 2nd grade he was my boyfriend lol. He lived nesr us and we would be at his house with his mom or my house. He told me we would grow up get married and live under the sea lol.
I moved away. Years later in high school I had moved back and he was in one of my classes and I recognized him instantly.
But by then i didn’t like high school boys so I remained friendly but that was it.
A few more years pass: I’m at McDonald’s before they sucked and he was there. He had joined the military and was stationed here. We would hang out only because I was in a relationship. We would hang out with guys from school.

He has to go out in deployment and we write but he ended up meeting someone in the ship and we lost touch.
Years ago by and the last time I saw him was at like Kmart. We were both married and he said where he was working and to come by sometime. I regretted later not doing it evens just to see him one last time.

Time again goes by and one big I have a very vivid dream about him.
So I google jsit for the heck of it: He had died of cancer at a young age and was buried in the cemetery across from where I lived.

How weird is it about these dreams sometimes. (not a love story) but not too long ago I had a vivid dream about one of my elementary school friend's dad. This is somebody I may have last seen in the 80's. I googled his name/location, and I found an obit where he had passed recently. It was the weirdest thing.

There is seriously no backstory with this man, I just remember sleepovers at my friend's house and he was there. He was gruff and made it very clear we were not to bother him. One night stands out in my mind is a sleepover, and severe storms coming in. (yea this was back in the 80's and TV choices were limited) We were sitting in the living room watching "The Waltons" at like 2 AM waiting for weather updates.

I guess the other was (since they had a camper)... we were being obnoxious in the house, so he made us go sleep in the camper that night

It's so weird how vivid memories of somebody I barely knew popped into my head and dreams like 40 years later with that kind of timing.