Poll of the Day > What happened to your high school crush?

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I remember this guy and I always trading glances at each other from across the room in our classes together. I was smitten, but 17 year old me was 10 feet in the closet, and I guess he was too, so we never got past sneaking quick peeks at each other in English, and Gym, and Math, and lunch, and sitting next to each other on the late bus home (we lived in the same neighborhood) but hardly talking.

Hes getting married to some chick later this year. No harm there, I have NO idea why I even had a crush on that guy. Though he /did/ give me a free cup of pretzel bites at the pretzel store once.

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engaged to some Greek guy and shes expecting a baby now

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my middle school crush was cinderella at the disney in hong kong for a bit

I never went to high school but I did have a crush on a girl when I was in the ninth grade.
She was really cute and she talked with me occasionally on some breaks but I think she's engaged now to some guy.
In retrospect, I don't think we would've worked as a couple anyway.
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well my high school girlfriend ended up having a kid not long after we graduated, if that counts

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Dated her in highschool, she cheated on me, got pregnant with the guy shortly after high school. Broke up with him, lives at home with a degree she doesnt use.

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No fucking clue because I moved on and don't stalk people.

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She was planning to move back to Mexico, and she wanted me to go with her, but I dropped out and never called her.

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My high school crush has some sub obsession or something. She is into guys that dont want her. Even today shes content being the mistress in a married guys relationship.

She liked to be treated badly.

As a teen I thought she deserved better. As an adult its such a turn off.

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We were friends, I ended up moving on in high school and becoming interested in another girl. I talked to her about it and she ended up telling me that SHE became interested in me after I had already moved, like...wtf lol.

I'm friends with her on fb but she's not active on it so, not really sure what became of her.

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Got fat.

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I had one just at school. She's now married with a kid as far as I know. I have not seen her since.
My biggest "crush" was my sisters best friend. We went to school together and I often saw her growing up with her been my sisters friend. She's got kids now but no longer with the farther as he cheated on her, got someone pregnant and moved in with said gal or something. Some folk don't know how lucky they are it seems. I haven't seen my sisters best mate in a while but my sister still sees her. I still want her to be happy. I guess I'll always care about her in someway.

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I actually just heard from her yesterday!

after we broke up our senior year of college, she graduated, moved back home, started doing drugs, apparently started acting like a huge jerk, her friends stopped talking to her, and she recently started dating a new girl. Still lives with her mom, jobless. Or at least not a job worth the degree she got.

Im not doing much better tbh

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She's still around. Active member in the church scene here. I always see her around at volunteer/special events. Don't know much else beyond that.

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I have no idea. I don't even remember what her name was.

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Judgmenl posted...

I have no idea. I don't even remember what her name was.

That's when the voices leave you for better people. They always come crawling back though!

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PK_Spam posted...

but 17 year old me was 10 feet in the closet, and I guess he was too, so we never got past sneaking quick peeks at each other in English, and Gym, and Math, and lunch, and sitting next to each other on the late bus home (we lived in the same neighborhood) but hardly talking.

Should've ask to hang out as friends... That could have led somewhere...

As for me, I didn't really have a main high school crush or anything. There was this one guy who was kind of cute, but I was pretty sure was straight. But he was hanging around at a party once. Like following me and wanting to hang out a lot. And even basically begged me to stay over our friends house after the party. And I did. He eventually had to go, through. Him and his twin brother had invited their friends to stay at their house, so his mom wouldn't have let him. I wonder how things would have been if he could have stayed... As far as I know, he lives in our home state and is probably dating some chick... Or maybe single. Idk...
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She graduated at the top of her class in college (she was valedictorian in high school too) and now she's an officer in the coast guard. Found out through my school's alumni newsletter that she got married a few years ago. No idea if she has kids yet. She always seemed extremely career driven.

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i was able to hook up with a highschool crush after my divorce. was a nice fling for a few months but realized we were in two different life situations at the time.

timing is everything. who knows maybe had we hooked up sooner things would've been a lot easier

wwinterj25 posted...

That's when the voices leave you for better people. They always come crawling back though!

No it's just a lot of things from those years I just don't remember.
Like I had a mutual friend who noticed me when I was grocery shopping one day, and I completely forgot their name and was pretty embarrassed by it (he knew my name). A lot of people in High School tried to be my friend and I thought that their friendliness was some conspiracy to make fun of me behind my back, which in retrospect probably was nobody's intent - people legitimately wanted to be my friend.

Said girl was one of those people. I completely ignored her because I didn't think she seriously wanted to be my friend, and she was doing it as some bizarre way of making fun of me or as some dare by her friends.

I was really fucked up. Now 15 years later I have no friends or any real avenue to make any.

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became a veterinarian
single
no kids
turned into a fat fuck

PK_Spam posted...

I remember this guy and I always trading glances at each other from across the room in our classes together. I was smitten, but 17 year old me was 10 feet in the closet, and I guess he was too, so we never got past sneaking quick peeks at each other in English, and Gym, and Math, and lunch, and sitting next to each other on the late bus home (we lived in the same neighborhood) but hardly talking.

Hes getting married to some chick later this year. No harm there, I have NO idea why I even had a crush on that guy. Though he /did/ give me a free cup of pretzel bites at the pretzel store once.

I feel ya. I had a crush on this guy in middle school-high school but never made a move because I hadnt come out yet. He was also 100% straight so probably wouldnt have gone far even if I was bold enough to try.

We were friends up until junior/senior year when we started to drift apart. He became more of a bro which wasnt really my scene, and from what I saw via social media he doubled down on that in college.

We both moved to NYC after college and I serendipitously ran into him on the subway platform once. Made small talk for a few minutes, he was working in finance consulting or something, but it had been so many years that there wasnt any real connection anymore platonic or otherwise.

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We dated, broke up, dated again all through high school. We seriously tried dating others through college but always ended back together. Got married. Had kids. Worked out fine.

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No idea, haven't seen her since I graduated and that was a long time ago.

We dated for a few months, then broke it off. We remained good friends. After high school she's dated two guys for a long time each. She cheated on one with the second, and then 3 years into that relationship he cheated on her. She was single for a long while after that.

A few years ago, her and I went camping together, just us. She wanted to get together but I don't live in the same city as her, and she's not willing to move. Nothing came of it.

Apparently she's been in a relationship with someone for a year now, but she's never posted any pictures with him on social media and I've not even heard a name. I haven't seen her in person in over a year.

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High school was probably the last time I had a Crush.I forget what flavour it was, probably something boring like Orange or Grape.

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I'm friends with her on Facebook, she is married with two kids.


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She died. While we were both in our Junior year of high school. It was a freak accident involving a truck going way too fast and swerving as she was going to check the mail.

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We've been together for about 20 years now

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My HS crush was actually a teacher. Ugh.

As far as I know she is still a teacher and got married. not much else going on for a 42(now 55) year old i guess.

which one?

stay at home with kids, married stoner
hospital lab assistant, married army guy
married air force guy, not sure what else
nurse, married super religious weird dude
Married Catholic guy, works in HR at a SF startup

I met a girl when I was in 10th grade a couple years ago. She was in 9th grade. She was in my eyes, absolutely perfect. She was smart, funny, caring, and beautiful. Problem was that she was in a relationship at that time, which sucked because I really liked her and we were somewhat friends.

So I decided to go after another girl to keep my mind off of here who was no where close to great as this girl, and it failed horribly. No relationship came out of it.

The following school year, I took some time to myself and the friendship between the first girl and I grew. I was even giving her little surprises and gifts as hints as if to say, maybe we're more than friends.

But it all came tumbling down because the day I was going to ask her to prom, she got asked by a guy who had the exact same name as me. So once again, I had to watch from the sidelines as the person I wanted more than anyone had fun while I was alone in the cold. Luckily, they where just friends, so nothing long term came out of it. My last year with her was absolutely wonderful. We were great friends, shared similar interests, and were as close to a relationship as one can get.

I still gave her surprises, the biggest and the best coming around Valentines Day last year. I had gotten a box of Hostess Valentines Day cupcakes to give her. She was gone on Valentines Day, so I waited until she came back, which was the next day. I waited until class was over, and pulled her aside. I got down on one knee and went on a fun little act on how great she was and how much she meant to me. I gave the surprise to her and asked if she'd be my valentine. She said yes and we hugged. I then asked her to prom a few weeks later, hoping for similar results.

This time, I gave her flowers and a card parodying a tweet of a certain political figure who shall remain nameless because she liked my impression of him. I gave it to her the first week of March. She didn't give me answer until the second week of April, and that was a no. I was honestly broken for a week. I cried for a couple days. Yet after the whole ordeal, we were still friends. I soon graduated from high school and on my final day, I bid her goodbye, but told that we'll meet again.

That was in June of last year and as of now, it was the last time I spoke to her. I tried texting her over that summer just to say hi,only to get ignored by her. It turns out that I did too much and that's what caused the ignoring. I've tried texting her to apologize for what I did, hoping that we can start over, but that too has been met with silence. I think about her everyday and I miss her a lot because I know she's great.

But it's painful. I've tried to let go, but when I try, the memories and the idea of it working out between us get in the way. I'm left confused in whether I should hold on and try, or wait for someone better. I've tried both, but in the end, I'm not wanted in either of them.

I feel horrible and don't know what to do.

she became a super left leaning, protest happy hippy, who i can't stand anymore.

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She needs space, dude. She needs time and room to breathe, room to be herself in a comfortable manner, and not the presence of someone smothering her no matter how "nice" it may seem Sometimes people need someone to compliment their existence rather than bury it in affection, ya know?

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Judgmenl posted...

I was really fucked up. Now 15 years later I have no friends or any real avenue to make any.

I too have no friends. Your story is interesting.

myghostisdead posted...

We dated, broke up, dated again all through high school. We seriously tried dating others through college but always ended back together. Got married. Had kids. Worked out fine.

That's a really nice story. Congrats!

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Sooo...I had a kindergarten crush. We were friends/I kissed her for some kindergartenesce reason, but then I moved a ways away and didnt really see her anymore. She wrote a letter about marrying me in third grade (after I moved away).

In high school I had a crush, but I never asked her out (or went on any date of any sort). Not much to tell. Shes married in Texas.

I re-met the kindergarten crush just after high school, though, and weve been married for 17 years now. Go figure!

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We broke up when she moved to another state. She got married, had a few kids, got really fat, depressed and ended up killing herself a few years ago.

We had reconnected maybe 2 years before she offed herself. I knew she was depressed because she kept reminiscing about our highschool romance. Started talking about leaving her husband and maybe we could get back together. I didn't think she was that bad though. She never gave any indication that she was thinking about suicide.


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wpot posted...

Sooo...I had a kindergarten crush. We were friends/I kissed her for some kindergartenesce reason, but then I moved a ways away and didnt really see her anymore. She wrote a letter about marrying me in third grade (after I moved away).

I re-met the kindergarten crush just after high school, though, and weve been married for 17 years now. Go figure!

That's actually pretty cute... Glad it worked out!
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Don't know, don't care

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Bugmeat posted...

We broke up when she moved to another state. She got married, had a few kids, got really fat, depressed and ended up killing herself a few years ago.

That's sad. Sorry to hear that.

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I broke up with my high school girlfriend the day I graduated. Never reconnected.

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He hit me up on Facebook 10 years later to let me know he broke up with me because his immediate family were/are racist and wouldn't approve of us dating. I don't even think he knew I had moved out of state 6 years prior; I think he was going to ask to meet up with me before I friended him back (so he could see my current city on my profile).

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RCtheWSBC posted...

He hit me up on Facebook 10 years later to let me know he broke up with me because his immediate family were/are racist and wouldn't approve of us dating. I don't even think he knew I had moved out of state 6 years prior; I think he was going to ask to meet up with me before I friended him back (so he could see my current city on my profile).

Good to show him you've lived a life without him/his family.

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Yeah, fuck that guy, and not in the fun way.

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I mean I hadn't thought about him in those 10 years; dude became a joke to me and my friends by the time we graduated high school lol

I don't know if he was experiencing "the one who got away" regret or something because it was such a random interaction from my end

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she's my gf

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I have no clue what my high school boyfriend is doing

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To be truthful, i have no idea what happened to her after high school

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LinkPizza posted...

That's actually pretty cute... Glad it worked out!

We used the third grade letter as the centerpiece on each table at our wedding...easy conversation starter!

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You mean the ones I didn't date? I think I looked up the most prominent one some years ago and saw that she had married, plus her looks have pretty much faded. On some level, I kinda feel like I dodged a bullet there, but I guess it wasn't just about looks with her anyway. One of the other ones is still an absolute babe, judging from her LinkedIn, is still doing well for herself. Another one got really fat, although she was crazy short so it's not like it takes as much. There were a few others, but I can't remember their last names (or maybe well enough to spell them) and I really have no idea what happened to them.

Likewise, I'm not entirely sure what's become of most of the girls I dated in HS and, tbh, I'm not sure I want to know.

I know that a few of the ones that had an (unreciprocated) crush on me didn't turn out well. I know one is a single mom with a kinda shitty job because because I ran into her sister a few months ago... actually, come to think of it, it might have been almost a year ago. Another one hadn't really been doing much with her life after high school and I'm not sure what's become of her now, although I think she never went to college.


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