Couple of years ago I found my old high school sweetheart on facebook. We traded some info and wound up meeting up at a mutual friend’s house for an informal reunion weekend. We slept together and instantly fell in crazy-irresponsible-uncontrollable-hormone-raging-teenage love again. We had a brief affair after college, but it had been almost 25 years since we had seen each other.
Our lives had taken completely different courses and she lives in a very rural, isolated area in a crumbling and estranged marriage with little to no excitement. It took some maneuvering, but my lifestyle is very flexible and it allowed me to get her out of that- at least for a few months. We were able to re-live the most pure, carefree, youthful love of our lives. When it was clear we couldn’t maintain the affair and had to end it, I set up an incredible 4 day trip to New York City- Flew her in 1st class, set us up in a jaw-dropping penthouse hotel suite with an awesome terrace, breakfast in bed, lavish gifts and shopping, parterre box for LaBoheme at the Met, my favorite top restaurants. We spent whole blocks of immeasurable time just staring into each other’s eyes and swallowing back tears. It was like a dream, but unfortunately, that’s exactly what it was. Real life came back and we had to say goodbye.
I’ve been with a lot of women and even been in love a few times, but that is the one. Maybe someday we will figure it out.