My ex girlfriend (F30) reached out to me (M29) after over 10 years of no contact.

I feel like my life is something out of a movie right now, the long lost girlfriend contacts her old flame after they've both been married for 7 years, it's almost to good to be true. I'm not sure if I idealized her or not. When we broke up I moved as far away as I could to forget her as fast as possible. I did a pretty good job of that, aside from the odd dream here or there. I thought the feelings faded, but in reality I just suppressed them, which worked fine when we had not contact. Now that we are talking again it's as if Pandora's box has been opened. At this point I'm not sure if these are just naive tingles or in fact still love, it sure feels like more than tingles. I shouldn't have needed closure, and neither should have she, we are both happy in our marriages, yet we do feel like something is missing, and that missing piece is each other is the realization we've come to. I'm just don't think that the piece we are missing is worth destroy both of our worlds over, especially for something that might be a flash in the pan.

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