Most of us have seen "Titanic"...I'm wondering how many seniors out here have married and moved on

Question

but deep inside still carry a torch for someone long ago . Do you belive that person was your one and only true love?

And also curious for how long has the torch been burning?

Answer 1

I won't lie...Barbara A. from 12/62 - 9/65. I've been married for almost 39 years, so obviously I wasn't HER one and only true love. I've only seen her a couple of times since then. One time was just before I left for Viet Nam in April of '66. We had been playing kissy face/huggy bear. I had on my Navy dress blues and she had on a cashmere dress. I was covered with cashmere as her husband to be drove up out front. Fortunately I didn't have a car, so I slipped out the back and through some yards. The last time I talked to her was in '89, I think. I saw her about 3 years ago when I was 'up home' as I was going into a parking lot and she was coming out. Our eyes met, but I don't think she recognized me...glasses, beard, on a motorcycle with a 'shorty' helmet on.
What's funny is when we were dating and talking about marriage, she said she wanted to move as far away from her mother as possible. The furthest she's lived is about 3 miles and now she lives less than 2! haha! And here I've been in over 30 countries and stationed in 3 (my family was with me in 2).
My family has always kept me up to date on things she's done (small town). When her husband passed away around lunch time, I knew by 4 p.m. that day. And now my sister lives around the corner from her parents, so...
Starting with her 30th birthday (1978), I've sent her a SWEET 16 birthday card on 9/29 (also my son's birthday, the day I joined the Navy, my friend's anniversary, b-day of a friend, day I started my last job...hard to forget). Her 60th is coming up next year. Hope at least one of her parents is still alive because that's where I send the cards. I hope I can send at least 2 more. And, yes, I think she knows I still care. There's a little corner of my heart she still has.

Answer 2

Yes, I still carry a torch for that special someone. And there are times that (like the Beatles) "I long for yesterday"

EDIT: The torch has been burning for 45 years. He was my first love and I will always love him, even though I am happily married to another.

Answer 3

once a torch, always a torch...but you move on regardless. We have one life to live, and if we sit around moaning about the one that got away, we will miss the one we could be with. Torches are fun to remember when you are down, but don't warm the bed at night .... so screw it, ya get on with your life and hope they have a good one also. It keeps life far more simple that way.

Answer 4

A few people here know I fit into that category ... remarried - twice - two more kids, and the torch has been burning for 21 years now. I finally have come to realize that there's never going to be another one for me.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Yes, I still carry a torch for someone from my past.It has been burning brightly for 18 years.

Answer 7

I'm one of the fortunate ones. We had a romance 37 years ago, but parted because of outside interference. We both moved on, married and had our kids, divorced. (He did this twice !) Both still remembered each other. Then 6 years ago he decided to write his memoirs, and wanted to track down some people who'd made a difference in his life.

He rang my Mum's number hoping she might be there - she had dementia and didn't know who I was, but fatefully, that day my nephew was there visiting Grandma, and he answered the phone. He gave Roy my email address, and thence followed 9 months of daily emails between us. We talked about everything, told each other our life stories, sent pictures, you name it.

Nine months later, I was going to visit my mother, and when I mentioned this to him, he said he'd pick me up at the airport and we could have lunch before he took me to her place. We met at the bottom of the elevator at Sydney airport on 24th January 2003, and it was as if we'd just "blinked" 37 years previously, and there we were, just the same. And we have never been apart from that day to this. He visited me every day at Mum's place, and when it came time for me to leave, he packed his car with all his worldly posessions and followed me home.

We've been together for 5 years next month, and are getting married that anniversary week. So, yes, I do believe we were meant to be together, and that we were our first and enduring true loves.

Answer 8

I married the man I carried the torch for and still married too him.

Answer 9

I'm now not married, but have been and yes, I married while carrying a torch for my first love...always have, always will...it does not prevent me from loving another though

Answer 10

There was someone I cared deeply for as a teen and my parents made us stop seeing each other because he was 7 years older. Always think about him on his birthday and when I hear a certain song he used to sing to me.