What if you encountered your true love after being married for years?
By Amy
@artemis432 (7474)
Abernathy, Texas
October 14, 2007 6:39pm CST
What if you found out that faery tale love does exist? I mean not just having things in common and feeling attracted - but a connection that seems to go behind time and space. You're drawn to the person mysteriously and feel you know them although perhaps you've never met.
Magic. Like you knew this person before, like you will know them again and again. Like you made vows in other lives to always be together - but they were just late in showing up?
You're not single, you're comfortably married. Maybe you have a few kids, maybe even a house and a joint retirement account.
Will you say, better luck next life? Or change your world?
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@williamjisir (22819)
• China
15 Oct 07
So it is retarded love. Anyhow I won't completely change my world. Yet we can still be very close friends as I value more of my present family and I don't have any desire to spoil my family.
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@artemis432 (7474)
• Abernathy, Texas
15 Oct 07
You think my description is retarded? Gee thanks, I don't remember ever insulting you.
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@artemis432 (7474)
• Abernathy, Texas
15 Oct 07
That's okay, it makes sense. I guess as I know that meaning for the word - but its so little used that when you employed it in that way I didn't immediately recognize your meaning!
Anyway, I'm glad to see you are a loyal person!
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@williamjisir (22819)
• China
15 Oct 07
Oh, no, friend. I mean the love is late. As we have a song that describes a love that doesn't come at the proper time. If the love arrives earlier before getting married, then it is not late. I remember the song is given the name 'retarded love', which means it is late. I hope that this time I have made it clear to you and I don't expect any misunderstanding. Sorry, friend, if I have offended you without using a proper word. I didn't mean it.
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@StrawberryKisses (2833)
• Canada
15 Oct 07
This is hard to answer for me. I think I would have to evaluate my life the way it is and see if I am getting everythng I need from my current life.
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@artemis432 (7474)
• Abernathy, Texas
15 Oct 07
Strawberrykisses, this was an honest answer. I guess all of us can intellectually say one thing - but given the actual situation we may do another.
@StrawberryKisses (2833)
• Canada
15 Oct 07
My reasoning behind it is that I would not ever want to regret my decision.
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@tarachand (3895)
• India
15 Oct 07
I'd be very very careful! There'd be many things I'd consider - Remember, my spouse may have stayed with me for years, and the children - what about them? Am I willing to let them undergo through the trauma of a broken family?
Even more important - I may love the new person, but does the new person love me as much? If that person did, and if that person knew that I already had a good married life, and that I cared for my spouse and children, then that person would probably walk away quietly rather than disturb my current comfortable set up.
I'd also try and put myself in my spouse's place and try and imagine the feelings I'd undergo if my spouse did the same thing to me - how would I feel, how would I take it?
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@tarachand (3895)
• India
15 Oct 07
All the more reason for that old love to leave me alone to my current state, and maybe hope for the better for our next life! Sorry if I seem so harsh on this - but my current family may not have been aware of my pacts with someone else in my past life, why should they have to suffer or be bound by such agreements?
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@artemis432 (7474)
• Abernathy, Texas
15 Oct 07
I love how you consider this from all angles! And from each person's perspective - not just your own.
Oh by the way - the new person would not be new - you knew them in a past life or existance and you loved eachother deeply and truly before - maybe even vowed to be together through each incarnation - each life.
@artemis432 (7474)
• Abernathy, Texas
15 Oct 07
That't true, to me it seems akin to having a lover and husband/wife and then getting amnesia and not knowing who you are. You then marry someone else and raise a family - then get our memory back.
I don't think you're harsh at all - just very loyal. I always welcome truth and openess in my discussions!
@sheenmadness (1286)
• Philippines
15 Oct 07
I think i will not consider it anymore. It will only bring me greater pain in the head. LOL! If im already comfortably married to my man why would i think of straying. I guess it will be unfair to him if i will do such or even just think about it. I guess ours will be better luck next life or wait until I become a widow! Hehehe...
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@motivatedmom (39)
• United States
18 Oct 07
Because my marriage is working (see pictures in profile. I would say better luck next life. But even in my next life I would hope to meet my husband again just because I believe he is my fairytale and I still have the majic even with my kids around. The person I was mysteriously drawn to is in my bed right now cuddling our two kids. :)
www.themomteam.com/stephaniet
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@artemis432 (7474)
• Abernathy, Texas
19 Oct 07
Actually this is a perfect example. You are very much in love with your husband, its a faery tale. Next life, you marry another man - then meet the husband you are now married to. What would you do?
@artemis432 (7474)
• Abernathy, Texas
19 Oct 07
Actually this is a perfect example. You are very much in love with your husband, its a faery tale. Next life, you marry another man - then meet the husband you are now married to. What would you do?
@motivatedmom (39)
• United States
19 Oct 07
I would go with the man that is now my husband. You got me there.!!!!!! lol
@mara82 (16)
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15 Oct 07
In my case my marriage has been over for a while, there is no more love left, all we need to do now is just get divorced. But I have found the fairy tale love that you explain, we have so much in common and although we have not met in person, both of us feel a strong connection,its like if we knew each other for so long. I would change my world for this man, but both of us would have to accept us for who we are. He knows i have children and is willing to accept them as their own, Why not give a try to pursue our happiness, if a marriage is not working, is better to get out of it before it hurts more.
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@artemis432 (7474)
• Abernathy, Texas
15 Oct 07
What if it were working? Just not the faery tale - and THEN you met this guy you describe?
@mara82 (16)
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18 Oct 07
You know is hard to answer this question because there is no love, but i suppose if my husband loved and respected me, and if i knew i really really loved him with all my heart, this situation will not happen because I would be so deep in love to put my eyes somewhere else.
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@barehugs (8973)
• Canada
15 Oct 07
Well this is a conundrum if I ever saw one! And It probably happens more then we suppose. I can imagine the situation... I'd be crazy with desire. I'd be pulled this way, and pulled that way. My kids would hate me, and so would my wife. What to do? Leave my home and family to chase a dream, or go back home and regret it for the rest of my life? I can't imagine leaving my old life behind. My wife, my Home, my kids are just too important. Lets just say I'll stay where I am and Hate myself forever!
@artemis432 (7474)
• Abernathy, Texas
15 Oct 07
Thanks for your honesty. Of course it wouldn't just be desire and it wouldn't be a dream as in fluff and clouds but real. You really knew this woman and made a vow with her to always be with her from this life (the one you made the pact in ) to the next. So really, you have a previous promise to her.
I was thinking - to me its like someone who develops amnesia (isn't that kind of what happens life to life anyway?) and forgets herself, family, etc. Meets someone else, gets remarried and has kids - then recovers her memory. What then? Go back to the previous committment? Stay with the NEW one?
@jr89997 (25)
• United States
15 Dec 07
I would ask myself if perhaps I was bored with my present situation. At times, people look elsewhere not because they are no longer in love, but more because they need some happiness. I wouldn't go through with any kind of new fairy tale love because my family is too important to me and it wouldn't be worth giving it all up.