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Yesterday, I got an email out of the blue from my first serious girlfriend in high school, from back in 1961-63. Saying hi, and that sort of thing. Normally, I worry about such things, since it was so long ago, and you never know what's going on. We'd been quite an item, and we were both pretty young. Things had been hot and heavy, and I had always felt sorta guilty about it, since I was a couple of years older than she was.
Worse, we had broken up after two years. In a lonely period while stationed overseas, I had written to her, trying to reestablish something. Turned out she was engaged. She said she'd wait until I got back, though. Naturally, that didn't happen and she got married to the guy.
But heck, I thought, and wrote a short email back. Hi, how are you these days? So...she wrote back and said that she felt really guilty for leaving me in the lurch without even telling me about it way back then. I told her I had felt guilty about us having gone too far with stuff back then, and that what she did was never any big deal and that I had just been really lonely. She wrote back and said that she'd been an active, willing participant in all that heavy breathing...
Turns out we're both married to people we love deeply, and she had just wanted to clear the air. I didn't mind clearing the air, either. We probably won't keep in touch, since the issues each of us had about those days almost 50 years ago were settled and laughed about.
Very interesting little exchange...funny...
My wife laughed when I told her about the email. She knew all about that old relationship anyhow, and wondered why I had worried about it in the first place.
Sometimes, things work out OK...
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