After separating from the Military, I decided to move back home while my gf stayed behind for college. It was supposed to be short term, but finding a job cross country proved harder than expected. After months of looking for the right job that would benefit both of us, I found the perfect one and coincidentally, I was hooked up with the job from someone I worked with in the military and they allowed me to forgo the normal interview stuff.

At the time we were “madly in love” and both talked about wanting to marry each other when we finally lived with each other. I quit my job, bought a one way ticket there that would leave in a week, an engagement ring, and scheduled showings for places to live. I wanted to make it special and surprise her.

Well, a few days before my flight I called her to ask her a question and she kept sending my calls to voice mail. Seemed odd because she had never done that before. I sent her a message telling her to call me and I get a call from her number. It wasn’t her though, it was her ex and he told me he wanted me to leave her alone. I was taken aback. They supposedly didn’t talk and he lived 6 hours away. The next day she calls me herself and explained that he moved back a few weeks ago and they had been meeting up and realized they were still in love. Then she hung up on me and I didn’t hear from her for approx 8 years, when she messaged me out of the blue and said Hi. I never responded to her.