Reddit Stories - An old ACQUAINTANCE from my school days REACHED out to me REGARDING a

Episode Date: July 9, 2025

#redditstories #askreddit #aita #schoolmemories #friendship #reconnection #nostalgia #communicationSummary: An old acquaintance from my school days reached out to me regarding a past misunderstanding. As we reminisced about our shared memories, we were able to clear the air and rebuild our friendship, leading to a renewed sense of connection and understanding.Tags: redditstories, askreddit, reddit, aita, tifu, school, memories, friendship, reconnection, nostalgia, communication, acquaintance, misunderstanding, sharedmemories, cleartheair, rebuild, renewedconnection, understandingBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/reddit-stories--6237355/support.

I hope you enjoy this story. An old acquaintance from my school days reached out to me regarding a pact we had made to reunite if we were both unattached at the age of 32, prompting me to end my present relationship and pursue this new opportunity. Get married to her. Throw away account because this needs to stay secret for now. I, call me Anthony 32 years old, have been with my current G.F., call her Michelle 33 years old, for four years, no plans of marriage and one time she cheated on me, drunk, mistake, blah, blah, blah,

whatever I forgave her. We are pretty much best friends that do everything together and live together, other than the one instance of cheating we have had no major issues and live a pretty good life. She does not want marriage or kids, I do though. It's a hard no for her. Recently my ex, called her Nicole 32 years old, contacted me over a promise we made back when we broke up, when and if we were both not married by 32, we would find a way to be together. Some backstory on her and I, childhood friends, started dating in middle school, dated through high school, she was accepted to her dream college and so was I. On opposite ends of the country, Virginia Tech for her and Stanford for me. We did long term for two years until deciding to let

each other live their life and be more connected to maybe someone closer if it was going to happen, this was a mutual decision and we broke up contact at that point so that we could move on. Her parents still talked to me on occasion, live four hours away, same with sister, 20 minutes away, and her grandparents two hours away, but never about her per my request. So flash forward I have been getting calls from a weird number once every month since September and just didn't answer because I don't answer numbers I don't know. Figure if important they would leave a message. X's sister comes by and says, hey, this is from Nicole.

She said you can read it and respond if you want, and if not then she will understand soon enough. For the life of me I had forgotten our weird promise, but the letter goes as this, Hey, Anthony, I know neither of us have been in contact in the last ten years, but I'm asking if you still remember the promise we made. I have no right to ask of it, and if you have moved on then it's okay, as I want you to be happy. First and foremost I want you to know this isn't a desperation attempt because I'm lonely. My sister was quite keen on giving that as the probable reason as to why I've been feeling this way and why I'm bringing up that old promise. This is more along the lines of I just can't imagine my life with anyone else. I, yes, have been on many dates and had one relationship that lasted over a year, but there was always this lack feeling in me that well and all honestly, they weren't you.

You're the guy I knew instantly when we're young that I would want to be with forever, the guy who made me smile, that I could wake up next to and was genuinely happy knowing that we were together. In my mind you, Anthony, have been my only want and desire, that day we decided to try and move on because of the distance. A want lie took me about a year to realize how stupid that was. It was mutual but my feelings are that I pushed you towards it, I honestly feel like the first suggestion of giving time to each other to finish school and not have to try and

coordinate our lives was the stupidest mistake I could ever have done. Anthony, you are my soulmate, my love, my life, and that is why what comes next I say with all fear aside. I am ready to leave everything and find a new job, to move back to, Candyland, and be with you. I'm fully prepared to do this if you even think there can be a chance of us again, I love you. I love you and nobody else. will ever take the place you have in my heart. I talk to my parents and friends, they are in full support of this. Also, thank you so much for being there for my parents when they needed help moving and working on dad's bike and truck. I had no idea until a few days ago. I will be fully

committed to being yours, I want to be part of your life and want you to be in mind forever, growing old, seeing the world change the lives we live together as one, and most importantly I just want us to be happy. I've wasted enough time holding back what I have wanted to say for the last few years, Anthony, I love you so much, I want to live my life with you. I'm prepared to leave it all for you, and lastly my love, my childhood friend, my soulmate. I'm more than prepared to be your wife and be the mother to our children. If I don't hear back by the end of the month, I will assume you have moved on for the better

and will do my best not to reach out again. If you decide otherwise I have left my number and email. Love, insert nickname from childhood, Nicole, to be honest, I don't know if I should respond or what I should do. She left her number, one that has been calling me, and her email. Unconflicted a lot, really. I literally cried when I read the letter and it brought back a lot of emotions that I didn't think were still there. Since, Michelle, Nicole, and I all went to the same high school they both know each other and I'm honestly afraid, Michelle, will tell me to go be with her without a second thought if I told her

about, Nicole, reaching out only just knowing how she is as a person. I've been debating it since getting the letter yesterday and since I always see good advice here I thought to ask the Reddit family. Edit 1. Lots of great advice. Tomorrow Michelle and I are going on a hike so I'm going to bring up what I want and need out of a relationship to be happy. We'll update tomorrow all. Edit 2, I talked to my current GF first. We had a big talk that was the last six hours we were hiking about what we are both wanting in the future. She made it clear that kids and adoption are out of her plan and suggested that we should just be friends if that's what I truly want in the future. I told her that I would still be friends with her no matter what since all the things we do together and she laughed and said no kids, and I keep my best friend who loves to do the same things I do.

Cha-ching It's all good Rather we both be happy in the long run Don't feel too bad or think this is a mistake We then talked about the letter from my ex And she pretty much said Nicole sounds crazy But if it's something I want to pursue Because of the history we had

Then she has no ill feelings of me going that route Also said if it doesn't work out Then I can always go back to plan No kids and freedom Thank me for bringing it up then And her typical fashion joked about me going to be blue-balled for a while. Rest of the hike was pretty much us talking like we normally do then debating lunch.

When we got to the trailhead I asked if she wanted any alone time or not, she said no, and that she eventually thought this would happen as we got older. Ask me if we can still do the friend's stuff until something else happens in our lives, and I told her yes, of course, she said no harm in that then and that was that. We're at the mall for her girl's lunch and I'm sitting at the table like a weirdo, huh? Um yeah until I call up the X and see what she is like that is it for now. Update, good evening Redditors, a while back, 2019, I posted about an X that reached out after a decade. Recently I was messaged by a few different people asking for an update.

Whether you three had been refreshing the page since then or it just randomly showed up in your searches. I wanted to post up the conclusion of what happened, what is still happening in the journey since the post was made. After Michelle and I ended our relationship kinda, nothing changed aside from living together in sex, Nicole and I started to make plans for when she came out here for her grandma's birthday. Talking on the phone a lot, emails back and forth, we decided on waiting to video chat or send pics to another since it wasn't too far off when she would be visiting and we thought it would be a good surprise. The initial hello was awkward as hell.

When she got out of the terminal, I recognized her right off the bat and the last. was amazed that she pretty much looked exactly the same as when I last remembered. I had seen pictures at her sisters and parents, but I was floored on how much she hadn't changed in the last ten years. Getting into the car we kind of just stared at one another for a minute and she started off with well. If you don't drive anywhere, people are going to start hunking smart guy. That started our week-long catching-up journey. We first went to go get some food and decided on pizza, oh yeah, and it was pretty easy going from that moment on. We shared stories of what life has been like, showed off scars, looked at each other's

trips and vacations, shared each other's hobbies, she asked about our old group of friends and who's still around, ECT. That small first meeting changed everything in life for us both. I won't go into specifics or minor details on the following dates and days, but to say that week went by in a heartbeat is an understatement. When it was time for Grandma's birthday it was like old times again, the family was easy to be around, we all joked and laughed and didn't have much of any problems throughout the week. Our music taste was the only problem, lots of fighting over that radio dial ha-haha. The goodbye felt. Painful, our week of vacation was over and it was time to get back to our lives half a country apart.

Flash forward a few weeks, and we decided that I go visit her this time around. phone conversations were going great and airfare was cheap enough. Texted before I got on the plane and told her my arrival time, landed and felt like I was ghosted. Not there to pick me up, wasn't answering the phone, didn't respond to any texts, Facebook said last online four hours ago, I started to feel like maybe this was some joke on my behalf and was worried. About 45 minutes go by and I'm walking towards a hotel when the phone rings and I find out she was so unsee about me coming. that she spent the night awake and upon hearing I was on the way, promptly passed out hard. By the time she got to me I was a sweaty mess but was apologetic all the way to her place,

and the following two days. We hung out the entire time pretty much doing what we couldn't do where I live, days at the beach, swimming, me getting in a small amount of rock-hounding while she looked for critters and eating all the Cajun food I could ever hope. In a nutshell it went great and other than the constant bald jokes, I had shaved my head, it was all fun. Meeting her friends, her dog, hanging out and doing things we each love was just tranquil in every way possible. When it came time to say goodbye she asked if I had any vacation time left and if I did if she could come back up for longer and I of course said yes. For months go by of back and forth traveling on weekends, always on the phone, and by that point

I feel like it's time, I ask her if she wants to move in with me, immediately said yes and we made our last vacation week into a road trip to bring her up to where I live. Our dogs got along and she was able to transfer to a new department based pretty close to where we lived. It was a dream coming true and it too went by so fast that honestly it feels like it was yesterday. She actually asked me to marry her a few months later and I of course said yes. She had glow in the dark rock set up to ask me in our yard when we went up to the deck to watch the stars. I feel like I'm going on a rant here. So much for not every detail, right? Ha ha ha ha. Well, it's been close to a couple years now since everything started. We have a beautiful daughter together, Ariana, adopted, we had issues,

she wouldn't be able to give birth. Our dogs are jerks and Dufuses, Michelle and Nicole have met and we are all friends again, they actually hang out a lot together, she has moved on and we still do a lot of our favorite hobbies together as a group or separately. With COVID and us being at home non-stop together, it's been just fine. Were things perfect? No. But nothing ever is, we had our issues in the beginning and still squabble over stupid things at times. To everyone that was part of the initial journey, I hope you've enjoyed this follow-up. This was the best decision and my only regret is that we didn't reconcile our relationship earlier. This has went by in a flash and honestly I can't wait to see what the future holds for us. Each day is refreshing

and a smile rarely leaves my face. I get to spend my life with not only my first love and childhood friend, but also with great friends and family that are always there for us both. Next story, got jealous when my husband went on a business trip with a flirty female who touches him, so I drove three hours to their hotel only to discover something shocking. Hi everyone, I'm A. 32F, and I've been married to my husband, let's call him Joe, for eight years, together for ten. In all that time, we've always prioritized each other's emotional well-being. If something hurt one of us, we didn't do it again, no matter what. We valued having a happy spouse more than being right. Because of this, my love and trust for him

grew immensely. I was certain he'd never do anything that would break my heart. But here I am, heartbroken and disappointed. Joe owns a company, and we work together. Financially, we're in a great place. Recently, through Joe's father, we got the chance to bid for a major government contract, a massive opportunity. Due to its scale, several companies are teaming up, and one key company involved, without whom the deal won't happen, is led by a very attractive, flirty woman. She's the CEO and is openly flirted with Joe in front of me. We both noticed her behavior, and in order to avoid misunderstandings or conflict, we decided to work on the bid together. Things were okay until one meeting where, during a break, she touched Joe's arm and said something

like, if I had a husband like you, I'd never leave his side. You're someone who. You're someone who's someone every woman wants, but sometimes even that's not enough. Someone else might steal your mind, I snapped and responded, I'm not following him, he just never leaves my side. She brushed it off as a joke, but I know it wasn't. I saw the look in her eyes, and women just know. Later, I talked to Joe about it. He admitted she was crossing a line and that he was uncomfortable, but didn't react strongly

to avoid jeopardizing the deal. I wasn't thrilled, but I tried to understand. Then today, I found out that I was excluded from a three-day site visit for the bid, a trip requested by that woman. Only five people are going, and Joe is one of them. When I heard, I told him I was extremely uncomfortable with this, and asked him not to go. I begged, actually. I said the deal wasn't worth this. We're financially stable and don't need this contract.

But he went anyway. Even after everything I said, he left without me. Something broke in me. I trusted him with my whole heart. I truly believed he'd never choose anything over my peace of mind. Now I feel like he did. He left me behind. And it hurts so deeply that part of me doesn't even care anymore.

If he comes back, if he ends up with that woman, I feel numb. A part of me says, Come on, ten amazing years, don't throw it all away. Another part wants to take off my wedding ring, send him a photo, and file for divorce. So, Ida for asking him not to go. And how do I even begin to deal with these emotions? Update 1, April 15, 2025. First of all, thank you so much to everyone who shared their thoughts.

I wanted to update you on what happened since yesterday. I did something I never thought I'd do. I drove to the place where my husband and his team were staying. Yes, I know, desperate and honestly not like me at all. But jealousy and love can make people do wild things. It was only a three-hour drive. On the way, Joe kept calling and texting, but I didn't respond. I didn't know what to say, and I didn't want to say something I'd regret later.

When I arrived at the hotel, I didn't let him know. Inspired by some of your comments suggesting hiring a pie, I wanted to see things for myself. I just needed to know, if something was happening, I wanted to witness it with my own eyes. When I got there, the group of five was sitting together in the lounge. They seemed to be having a good time, Joe included. But importantly, Joe was sitting far from her, so there was no chance of physical contact. He was engaging in the conversation but still texting me non-stop. From afar, he looked like he was chatting with someone, but it was actually me.

Please answer me, don't be mad, talk to me. I had planned to just observe. But I couldn't take it. There was a cafe near the hotel, so I went there and messaged Joe to meet me. He showed up smiling and hugged me tightly. I was supposed to be strong, to demand answers, but the most of the most of him. moment he held me, I just started crying like an idiot. He comforted me for a while. Then I finally asked the question I should have asked earlier, and many of you pointed out, why didn't

he bring me along? Not as a team member, but as his wife. He said it was because I was already very upset at how she excluded me, and he thought bringing me might escalate the tension. According to him, he's been handling her flirty behavior by keeping it light and not letting it cross any lines. Joe believes this woman isn't even after him, she's competing with me. He said some people feed off of making others uncomfortable, and she's one of them. She chose you as a rival, he said. It's not about me, it's about her wanting to disturb you to feel powerful. That sounds a bit off to me, honestly. She's a successful CEO. She's already powerful, still, he insisted that he's been keeping his distance,

and not giving her any encouragement. He said he didn't think this trip would affect me this deeply, and reminded me that over ten years, I've seen women hit on him before, but this is the first time someone has gotten under my skin like this. He also opened up about how important this contract is to him. He doesn't want to disappoint his father, and he feels like we might never get another opportunity like this.

He asked me to trust him. We went back to the hotel together and had breakfast. To be honest, I am not as angry as I was the day before. I didn't even mention divorce during our conversation. I'm still upset, yes, but the heartbreak I felt has eased. I don't know if it's normal, but the sharp pain has been replaced by a strange calm. Tonight, we'll have dinner together as a group. Update 2, April 16, 2025.

Hi again, everyone. I wanted to answer a few recurring questions. from the comments and also share how the dinner went. As for Joe and me, we've been together for ten years and have worked together for almost eight of those. Like any couple, we've had ups and downs, but we've managed to come through without major scars. Joe has gone on many business trips before, often with other women present, and I've never had a problem with that. I'm not someone who panics just because my husband is away on a work trip. We've faced similar situations before and handled them without much issue because we trust each other. But this time

was different. As Joe said, maybe it hit harder because this woman was going after me, not him. She was directly trying to get under my skin. And she succeeded. I let my emotion spiral, and things could have gone to a much worse place, I'm relieved they didn't. Joe told me that while my doubts and reactions did upset him a little, he understands why I felt the way of I did and doesn't blame me. He said, if I were in your place, I'd feel terrible too, but I never thought you would believe I'd betray you like that. He's right, I was unfair to him on that front. But he also told me he knows how much I've endured for him, and that he'll work on making sure I never feel that way again. And I believe him. Now, about dinner, it actually

went pretty well overall. Nobody questioned my presence, and Joe told them he invited me. The woman did make a few passive-aggressive comments, though, mostly disguised as jokes. At one point, she said something like, if she weren't always in her husband's shadow, she could be doing so much more. Later, she said I was being wasted in this company and could thrive at a bigger firm. I didn't let it get to me. I smiled and simply said, you seem to have a great eye for people's potential. Some of the others in the group, who I already knew, actually suggested I participate in the final day of work. But I declined.

I didn't want it to look like I was trying to compete with her or prove anything. I told them, I'm just here for Joe, and for the fun parts. If we win this bid, we'll have to work with this woman for another five years, and that worries me. But I also know we won't be seeing her that often. This contract means a lot to Joe, so I guess I'll have to learn how to live with it. Comments where OP has replied, commenter won, you handled her like a boss. She feels insecure around you now. In her mind, the crap she was doing didn't work on you.

She's a pathetic little woman who uses sexuality to get attention and validation. Poor woman. I have a feeling that you'll be updating us more on this, especially if your husband is able to secure the contract. Hoop, thank you. She is really trying to get me as Joe said. I realize that. The thing is I don't talk about these things to my family or my friends.

I love this place I can share everything and also my private life is private. I really think I would use here and get your opinions on this. Commenter too, I'm glad things worked out and you and your husband are in a good place. Just curious, for the project. assuming you were awarded the contract, does your husband have to be the point person? Can someone else take the lead on it like you, his father, another employee? Five years is a long time for him to have to deal with the flirting and innuendos, but I guess the same can be said for you having to deal with her passive aggressive attitude and behavior.

Oop, unfortunately as he is the owner and the CEO of our company, he will have to deal most of it. But he will include me legally so I will be there every step and she cannot exclude. me. I hope she will find herself someone else at some point. Commenter three, that's awesome. Next time she calls for a meeting you go instead of him. We all agreed with your assessment that I have more potential so I'll be point on this contract from now on. There's nothing you need Joe for that I can't handle on his behalf right. Smile oop, she'll see more of me smile.