I can’t stop thinking about my childhood sweetheart

DEAR DEIDRE: I CAN’T stop thinking about a boyfriend I went out with for two years when we were teenagers.

I finished with him rather cruelly and later regretted it. He went on to get married and had a family.

I know it is ridiculous but I find myself wondering if he ever thought about me over the years

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I am a 70-year-old happily married woman. My husband is 72. We have been married for 38 years and have two grown-up daughters.

Until recently this man still lived in the area. But I haven’t seen him in years though I always hoped I might bump into him.

I have just heard through a friend he has moved miles away from the area and I feel bereft.

I know it is ridiculous but I find myself wondering if he ever thought about me over the years.

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He was my first serious boyfriend. I feel like a love-struck teenager.

Is this normal at my age?

DEIDRE SAYS: Feeling sentimental over a first love is totally normal.

Almost no relationship ends without mixed feelings. But we often look back at previous relationships through rose-tinted spectacles.

First loves have a special power to make us feel nostalgic for the past.

Leave this man to his life and focus on your own relationship with your lovely husband.

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