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RE: Past relationships...

@Sweet,

I certainly do have one major regret. When I was 12 years old, I had a wonderful friend. A girl. We did everything together (including discovering our first furry bits...long before we knew what to do with them ), and used to sit in her family's lounge-room, with her head in my lap, listening to the just released "Something in the way she moves...". Then I did something very, very strange.

At school, a girl with a VERY short skirt, and legs up to THERE, and a VERY big smile, started paying me a LOT of attention. And I just stopped seeing my friend (appropriately, this new "distraction" turned out to be a very unpleasant experience, but that's another story).

Anyway, my regret is not that this just happened to be the nicest, purest relationship I can ever remember (and do wonder where it might otherwise have been able to go), it was how she must have felt being so suddenly and silently abandoned. The thought horrifies me. I can't even really relate to it, because such a thing has been so impossible for me to do ever since, I feel other's pain so intensely. Just not right then.

But, you know what? It just occurred to me! This is the answer to my question "what did I do to deserve a marriage like THAT?"

Anyway, I certainly sent her sweet prayers when I finally realized what I had done, but have never actually had the opportunity to ask her, or apologise for, how she might have felt.

Live and learn!

RE: True Gentleman lol...

@Sweet

You are absolutely right of course!

As soon as I'd done it, I wanted to edit the comment and replace it with, "love of my life, please let me darn those for you!"

Baggage? What baggage?

RE: True Gentleman lol...

I want to fast-forward to where he drops the socks in her lap and asks "Honey, could you just darn these for me?"

(I'd've just taken the socks off and gone barefoot. But perhaps he just binned them :)