Any old flames or romantic interests popping up in your life?

Not at the moment…but years ago. After I was engaged to my first husband, my first real love showed up at my office with a dozen roses. He told me that breaking up with me was the biggest mistake of his life. I politely agreed and sent him on his way. (I gave the flowers to a co-worker). After I was married to my first husband, my first serious boyfriend (and, you know first) showed up, at the same office! It certainly was an ego boost both times, and gave everyone in my office something to wonder about ; )

Not really. There was an old flame (more like a spark) that reconnected with me in August, by chance. We dated for a while recently but drifted apart (my fault). My old flames kinda sucked. They went out very quickly.

I suppose this response is not really very similar to your situation, but your question is making me think…

I went home over Thanksgiving and three former somethings (they weren’t all flames…) contacted me. The story of the first is that we stopped hooking up when he got a girlfriend (who he is still with) and he called and texted me, and I saw him because I visited my old job (yeah, we worked together…). The story of the second was that, just a few small weeks ago, told me that I was a terrible person and that he never wanted to see me or speak to me again, and yet when I was in town, lo and behold, a text appears from him, and he keeps trying to get me to come hang out with him…. alone. The last story is that a guy and I ended things on pretty bad terms, including him trying to tell me that we shouldn’t talk because he’d “probably never see me again,” and yet I received a facebook message from him (even though I gave him my number twice), asking if I was in town, to which I responded yes. I never got his response (or any explanation of why he messaged me in the first place). Yeeeeah.

Wow, the timing of this question is uncannily funny. I joined facebook the beginning of November and since then I have had about 5 guys I used to know in high school (20 years ago or so) or from college in Santa Barbara, suddenly resurface after all this time with confessions of regret of letting me go or just to simply tell me how much of an impact I had on their lives. All at once and out of nowhere…hmmm… What are those planets and stars doing right now, anyway? ;-)

I recently had a particularly fun time with someone who i’ve kind of always had a thing with, but never were in a position to do anything about it.

Hopefully he and I can continue that fun once he gets back in town. (she says pointedly.)

@del, nice to hear that you’ve gotten over the hump.

My most recent ex FB messaged me, but I couldn’t see any benefit to getting back in touch with her, so I let it go.

I finally bumped into another ex (whom I want nothing to do with) after six years of no contact, which I thought was a pretty remarkable stretch. She’s a nut job with a mean streak, so naturally I minimize our interaction as much as possible.

I have been in touch, though, with a HS girl friend of mine who I never dated romantically, but did take to dances. She’s always been brilliant and is studying to be a cancer surgeon now. Looking back at HS pictures, I wonder why I didn’t hook up with her. I’m sure if we got together things would happen.

i ran into my ex-fiance at barnes and noble a couple weeks ago….shes now addicted to meth and pregnant with twins. made me happy with my decision to not marry her… but it was so odd seeing her like that

I spoke to an old flame awhile ago. The (brief) reunion helped to reaffirm the original reasons we broke up.

Constantly. Since my partner Jenn (I refuse to say ex partner) left for Florida on sabbatical I have had many old flames calling and stopping over. Particularly odd, though, was Jenn’s old girlfriend who has called seven times in the last week wanting to get together for “coffee”. Right.

I just remembered. My ex-husband stopped at the house two nights ago. I haven’t seen him in years! Oh my. I didn’t suspect he wanted anything more than to say hi, but I wonder…he was acting a little odd. Well, that’s par for the course.