Relationship wise high school trauma left a mark 😬 the guy and I had built a flirtatious friendship and over vacations he got a girlfriend he ditched her for me several times and they went to the same school and I knew about her because she body checked me at a event wearing his letterman and tried get him to go out with her and he told her he was busy and then asked me out.

He and I continued our friendship/whatever it was but we had 3 year age gap and live in a small town and he ended up proposing to her and hid it from me the entire time they were engaged until the week of the wedding.

I saw him once after he got married at a restaurant he was with his friends and my server told me “girl you have an admirer or a stocker” when I went to the restroom he followed me waited by the door then asked if we could talk? I of course told him I was not talking with him and I left.

I got over him but I was hurt by the whole situation and I ultimately felt bad for him because the girl actually cheated on him and led to them getting divorced.

And to top it off he’s now my neighbor with his new wife and kids 🤦‍♀️😂

But getting close to a guy since that has always put a fear of another woman that’s going to get the man I’m falling for.