Love my husband to death, yet still can't let go of old crush

I have been with my husband for nearly 6 years and we have a beautiful daughter together. I love them both more than my own life. However, there is a guy from my past whose memory I can't shake. He was my best friend in high school and I was madly in love with him. Every once in awhile I go on these jags where I'm thinking of him all the time and wondering what may have been had things been different. I feel so guilty and I'm afraid to tell anyone. I would never EVER cheat on my husband; I love him more than anyone and he makes me incredibly happy. But I still think of the other guy and reminisce sometimes. Is this normal? Should I tell my husband how I'm feeling?

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  • Myway75

    I'm in the almost exact situation! I've been married for 19 years but before him there was my first love and I've never stopped loving him. Yet I love my husband also. Not a day goes by that I don't think about my first love and if he still thinks of me.

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  • thechick

    nothing wrong with a in-head fantasy. just don't act on it. the grass is NOT greener on the other side

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    • iinotnormal

      Got that right!

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  • oquenbe

    what if i had a million dollars? what if i went to college? what if i hadn't gotten my gf pregnant?

    my point is this: no one is with there soul mate we just got stuck with the best we could do. yes sometimes we love the things/people we get stuck with but we like to wonder. what if?........basically YOUR NORMAL. it is completely fine to dream. if u were to find him and intensionally build a relationship with him thats where morality plays a part so dont beat yourself up about it i mean fuck pull a dildo out and have at it but THATS THE LIMIT

    good luck to ya...........oh dont let your hubby know though cause ima guy and he wont be to happy :)

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  • iinotnormal

    Don't write stuff down...keep it in your head! Or, become a romance novelist. Plenty of dough to be made, lots of sappy chicks and fags who dig that shit!

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  • whytey68

    He was always in the back of my mind. I ever told my husband about my good friend whom I had a major crush on. Then I met him 7yrs ago.I was obsessed with the what if. However we were able to talk again like old days. Being good friends. I did confessed to him that I used to be so in love wiz him. He is aware of that himself n confessed that he was a dick back then n felt that I dont deserved him. We are now friends again. My husband used to ask me what if I met my crush again. Now I know. I still find him attractive. But we had moved on. He have a family with 3 kids n I have 4kids. The what if are all answered. I have realised that my love for my husband is more solid. My husband accepted the fact that I have my old good friend in my life again. He trusts me. He is also now frens with my crush families. My husband can see that my fren do care for me and he is not too jealous about it as he cud see that my fren is sincere n love his own family. We wont jeapodise anything. There are two families involved here. His kids n my kids got along very well. We had outings together. Travelled together. Life is good.
    However.. his wife doesn't know about me and my crush. She only knows that we were good frens during college. I m thankful that my husband knows. So I do watch my behavior. But once in a while I do flirt wiz my fren n I do still dreamt about him too. Just in my head.

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  • Harrisboy

    If you met up with your old crush, and he tried to have sex with you, would you go through with it? Honestly? Even if you were blindly drunk?

    If so, then yeah it's normal. So long as you know where your breads buttered.

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  • MillerMiller

    Stop living in the past

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  • tasmanian_angelfreak

    You are totally normal. You can't bring him back into your life, so I say get a private weblog that only you can see, and just write to your heart's content. By all means, DO NOT tell your husband about him because you don't want your husband making extra sure that you stay away from him. You and your crush could be friends later if your husband doesn't know you have a past. If you're not normal, then quite honestly, neither am I. I hate it for you.

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  • cookiegirl

    dont tell, hell take it the wrong way and i guess its normal if its not in your head all the friggin time

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  • anabolic19

    well these feelings are common but this feeling has the potential to ruin everything you have seriously

    if you love your husband and your daughter andn your happy then dont do anything because you'll hurt him, he'll get paranoid and he'll start checking up on you like if you come home late he'll wonder where you've been

    with a man it dosnt matter how much you would never cheat if you say you like some one we will instantly think fuck shes gonna run off with him

    so imagin this crush as being he devil on your shoulder trying to get you to fuck everything up

    because following a crush often leads to hurt because it will never be as good as you've made it out to be

    so please dear dont do anything you'll regret

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  • Cr1st0f0r1

    It's a sign from God telling you to screw your old crush AND your husband. Lucky gal.

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