Do you hear of stories of teenagers that didn't "hit it off" then, but ended up doing so after many years?

[MatureDJ]

I must say that I am hearing this more & more often (or folks that didn't hit it off in their 20s, but did in their 40s, etc.).

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/14/economy/working-past-retirement-age/index.html

Vaughn met his wife, Mary Susan, in high school, but they didn’t connect romantically until their 15-year reunion. They hit it off and were married six weeks later.

my opinion: The teenage iteration of the gal was gunning for a higher status male, while the later one was hitting / has hit The Wall. He had been put into a parking orbit back then, and he was still stuck there after all those years.

 

[jhonny9546]

This works

 

[CAPSLOCK BANDIT]

Every woman I've ever been with has come back at some point to varying degrees, some to express anger or frustration, others to express something else but I do think it's very common and I don't think there's a single vector you could chart this on, could be FOMO, social circle, resources, who knows

 

[SW15]

Not often, but it happens.

 

[RickTheToad]

I must say that I am hearing this more & more often (or folks that didn't hit it off in their 20s, but did in their 40s, etc.).

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/14/economy/working-past-retirement-age/index.html

my opinion: The teenage iteration of the gal was gunning for a higher status male, while the later one was hitting / has hit The Wall. He had been put into a parking orbit back then, and he was still stuck there after all those years.

They couldn't get anyone else to fall for them, so the orbiter stepped right up.

 

[Divorced w 3]

Yeah my aunt did that. She reconnected on Facebook with whom we found out was a dying man and he left her something I would imagine. He never had any interest in meeting any of our family and we see why.

 

[CornbreadFed]

Yes

 

[jhonny9546]

This just make me imagine some old friends of you that you met at school at 15, that enter a relationship with someone, this guy die, and then this women doesn't have any other social knowledge or skill, then she would contact or met "old friends".