Hey, Hey Waffle gang. I do hope you are well. My name is Mark and today we're checking out some more relationship stories. And if you do love a Reddit story, why not consider hit a like, subscribe, maybe that notification bell too. And let's crack on with today's first story, which comes from excellent plastic 37 and says,

my ex-fiancee male 44 cheated on me 20 years ago. Should I female 44 go out to dinner with him

to catch up? So apologies if this is a long one. I've just been kind of mulling it over with pros and cons.

Burner account for obvious reasons since my main is my business account. A little bit of back story.

When I first met Mark, oh my word, fake name, it was back in junior year of high school. My parents

had a pretty bad divorce. Mother had an affair and essentially abandoned me.

So my father packed up and I moved to a new state to live with him. I'm extremely close with

my father because of this and we had a close bond. Anyway, this was a lot. I was struggling to deal

with everything emotionally and I withdrew a lot. My grades got bad and I acted out. Mark was someone I became struggling to deal with everything emotionally and I withdrew a lot.

My grades got bad and I acted out.

Mark was someone I became acquainted to very quickly.

Think troublemaker slash bully type deal.

Anyway, I avoided him like the plague, but I was new.

I was small.

So easy pickings.

He cornered me one time, calling me names and I'm not sure what the trigger was, just a lot of built-up emotions, but I punched him, which led to a fight.

A one-sided one looking back. He was much larger than me, but never swung back. After this,

he did an entire 180 on his personality. He stopped bullying others, apologized, left

me love letters, followed me everywhere until I just snapped and asked what his deal was.

I still get butterflies when I think back on it. Embarrassing, I know, but it makes me feel

like a kid again. But he told me that he wanted to be a better person for me and that he liked

me.

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