Reply #22: Not to oversimplify. . .

[Scarlett17]

but "you don't miss your water until your well runs dry". Sometimes that separation can really open someone's eyes to have they had--and what it's like to lose it. When we broke up, I really did not foresee us ever getting back together. I hated to do it, but I had to get out of the situation. He had things he had to work out for himself--I couldn't do it for him. Fortunately for both of us, it opened his eyes.

When he first came back, he apologized and said all the right things, but I was skeptical. Then time proved that he really had gotten past a lot of the things that were causing us problems. It's been four years now and those changes were real, not just cosmetic to get back together. Plus, he's a much happier, content person now then he was before. I am so glad I didn't let that old hurt stop us from having another chance.