After getting the piss taken out of me...
..for admitting I had a crush on a girl in primary school I repressed my attractions to the ladies until my late teens. Well it was part that and part low self esteem.

As a result I became quite the little heart breaker on our many family holidays abroad. On numerous occasions girls would tell their friends who would then wander over and say 'She fancies you'. I would look up to see embarrassed cute smiley girl and say 'I'm not interested' then walk off kicking myself once more. I also ignored the attempts at interaction from my next door neighbour who used to invite me round 'to fix her computer'. I'd get there to find it working perfectly and it didn't occur to me that she had an ulterior motive.

My first love eventually came during my university years. I met her through a mutual interest in music and it took me 3 months to work up the courage to ask her out and kiss her (Read: Self worth issues, why would anyone want to date me?). From then on things were fantastic and we had some great times. Alas, I treated her unfairly and we parted after some seven or eight months. I was left broken hearted for a good twelve months and very fragile for the next three years. Kinda stupid now I look back on it but my emotions were out of control.

No regrets though because it helped me self-analyse and pick up on why I was such a bastard to her at the end.

6 years on and I've met my match, we got engaged two weeks back and are due to marry in 2008. Never been happier :D
( beefandcheese, Thu 20 Oct 2005, 13:59, Reply)