Summer Romances

[shortstax]

Anyone ever have a fun summer romance back in the day?  Spill it  


I randomly started thinking about an old flame yesterday.  He was a rich kid that I met one summer at the resort where I worked. His "summer cottage" was 3x the size of my home. He invited me on his yacht with his friends, was gorgeous, and seemed like a worldy do-gooder to a girl from rural Ohio. I remember he was going to Yale, which was so unheard to people from my area.

It was a fast romance and fizzled quickly.  This will sound sooooo lame, but I heard a country song about a summer romance yesterday and it made me think of him.  I just decided to google him for fun. One of the first things that popped up was his twitter page (and I know it was him based on the picture and twitter handle.)

YOU GUYS---

He's only followed like 15 things, 2 of which are Ted Nugent and Fox News.   MY WORLD JUST SHATTERED. He's not the perfect Adonis that I'd envisioned all these years. haha. I never should have googled and kept the old fantasy alive. 

Anyways, I had to share with someone  (hot)  

[cajunmom]

Yes. I was staying with a friend (Lisa) in Texas and he (Todd) was a friend of a friend of hers (Crystal). His father was very rich, he was literally an oil tycoon from Kansas. I thought he was very cute when we first met but didn't think more of it, but within a couple of weeks it was clear that we had the hots for each other. It was pretty great for a while but I knew it wouldn't last. I remember lying in bed one night and Lisa and Crystal thought I was asleep and Crystal said "I don't care WHAT she thinks, Todd is MINE." They had never even dated or anything, but I guess she had feelings for him. Who knows.

I looked him up a couple of years ago and he's married and had a gorgeous daughter. He was a great guy and I hope he's happy.

[magdala]

I worked a summer job at a camp and fell for another camp counsellor. He was dreamy...that summer. When we met up the following summer, working once again at the same camp, he was a conceited jerk. I have not looked up him or any other old boyfriends. I just don't want to know.

[mrshandy]

I married my summer romance.

My parents moved to FL my freshman year of college. Every summer I came to FL and worked at Ruby Tuesday saving money for college living in my parents tiny place (they downsized when they moved to FL). I met H one summer and then went back to school for my last year. Then we finally hooked up over Xmas break. I went back to FL the following year for my last summer in FL working tons saving money for grad school dreaming of moving to DC.

H and I dated all summer. It was fun and my parents were totally scandalized when I stopped coming home some nights. I always warned them ahead of time. We had a great summer then I left for grad school wondering what would come of it.

I finally convinced him to visit me in DC (he had never been). He did and we became more than a summer romance. He moved here 6 months after his visit and the rest is history.

[Deleted]

This is not much of a summer romance, since we were so young. On the last day of 8th grade I rather publicly made out at someone's pool party (lol) with "the hot new guy." He was way "cooler" than me, so I thought this make-out meant we were going to be a couple. The next day was the class trip to an amusement park, and he basically wouldn't acknowledge me. It hurt.

Fast forward to high school. We never really talked again, but had a lot of classes together. He hung out in the "elite" crowd and never really dated anyone else in our school. I could never tell if he was actually shy, or kind of an ass, or what.

I randomly googled him last week and he's now a doctor. He saved some kid from drowning at the beach a few years ago, and there's videos of him being interviewed by local news. They keep referring to him as "Dr. HisFirstName," and in the videos he looks (and sounds, haha!) just like his awkward middle school self. It was really weird to see him again since I have not seen him in probably twelve years. I guess I have no hard feelings for him, just a little embarrassment about the pool party make-out and my assumptions that we'd be together afterward. Google also led me to twitter where I see he is now married and has a daughter. I'm happily married (to my real high school sweetheart) but I couldn't help wonder what it would have been like if middle school guy and I had stuck together.

Sorry, this was not the juicy spilling you were looking for, just my random middle school crush who randomly popped into my head last week.I know a middle school make-out would not be a big deal to most people, but my DH and I have been together since we were 15 and 16, so I don't have many other boys to compare him to!

[h]

I loved summer romances! I had camp boyfriends several summers. My first camp boyfriend/first kiss works in some corporate position at MTV. The guy from the following summer (i.e., the first guy I did more than kiss ) went to Princeton and is now a big law partner. I adored the first one, but he dumped me . The second one was overly clingy and a bad kisser, so I dumped him. But he was super sweet and his parents picked him up in a private jet at the end of the summer. Perhaps I should have sucked it up and pursued it? (Kidding)

[konapoppy]

Yep!
We met at summer camp when I was 12 and he was 15. Nothing happened that summer.

Fast forward 8 years. We were both back at camp at the same time as staff and hadn't seen each other since that first summer. The spark was still there. We were in a relationship for about a year and a half.

It ended okay, but then he called me years later to catch up and his life had turned to comical shit. Him breaking up with me is the best thing that could have happened (totally would have married him if he had asked because I was so in love with the idea of marrying this young love).

[konapoppy]

Omg. I just remembered the funniest part.

One night at camp, we sneaked away to his truck to hook up. Things were getting hot and heavy when we see these bright lights near us. We thought we had been caught and laid low.

The next morning we found out what the lights were. The barn staff had been burying the camp pig

[shortstax]

I love all these stories so much!   (heart)

[M]

Hmm there was a couple.

2 was before senior year of high school. They worked at Best Buy and I was there looking for a CD player. The HOT one came up and asked if I needed help with anything and handed me his card and said if so then to give him a call. Soooo lame, but I was daring so I called him. Turns out he was my age and went to my school's rival. Fun times sneaking out of my parents house late at night with him but he was a player and I knew it.

The other guy...I don't remember how that started. But he got insanely clingy and started talking about a life long relationship. Dude! I'm 17! (He was 24) and I was dating his HOT co-worker that he knew about AND he smoked and had bad cig breath so I ended that pretty quick.

1 was after graduation. We met at a bar and I found out he lived about 20 miles away from the college I was going to. He was sooo sweet and kind. His mom had horses so we'd go riding and swimming in their pool. Then the summer ended and he went back to U.Michigan.

I've never heard from any of them again. I was FB friends with the UM guy until I deactivated my FB page.

[livinitup]

Brian was a hot lifeguard, med student and he pursued me, guys! He made me mix tapes and planned camping trips. I was also a lifeguard so it was this hip, cool romance. So, I spent my summer with this really smart, funny guy who really liked me and made me feel special. We spend a lot of time outdoors at parties and beaches and lakes.

That was a great summer. I saw the moon rise from new to full twice.

[crashgizmo]

I had several also- all camp boyfriends.

The most memorable was the summer between 8th and 9th grade. Drew and I had grown up together but his family had moved away in 6th grade and came back that summer. We carpooled to camp together and it was obvious he was in to me. I was a late bloomer and had never had a boyfriend, so I was really embarrassed. We danced together to "With or Without You" by U2, and held hands. He gave me a black Bic lighter (we didn't smoke). I still have it, dead serious.

He tried to keep dating me when the summer ended and I totally blew him off. No idea why because he was awesome. Then in 10th grade I decided I was in love with him and spent a few summers trying to win him back. I thought we would reconnect on a ski trip junior year until he brought his girlfriend. She had the same name as me and looked like me. I of course believed that was because he was still in love with me.

Then we moved to AZ and I never saw him again.

[Deleted]

The summer before my senior year of high school, I dated intern at the museum where I worked. He was in college, and we were not very subtle about changing our work schedules so we would always be together. If it hadn't been for the whole age difference ( especially because I was 17 and he was 21) ...

I looked him up a few times in college, but Internet searching was not as easy then as it is now.