I wasn't sure about posting this but I need somebody elses thought:

I was 14 y/o and he was 15 y/o - I was at church camp and spotted him across the room looking back at me. Next day people started telling me that he wanted to meet me & we did meet.

We were the highschool sweethearts, always together. He wanted to be a farmer and I wanted to own a Day Care. His dad was going to by us a farm house and build me a daycare.

My mom thought he was perfect and his parents thought I was the best. We had our wedding planned out, the future was built just for us - the perfect couple.

And then life blew us over, I woke up in the U.S. Navy and he woke up in the U.S. Army.

But then another wind blew through when his Dad ask me to come along and pick him up from the airport. The reunion was great but then, reality struck again and I spent the next several years traveling around the country while he stayed home and tried to make it.

During this time he married, had a daughter and a son and a house.

I'm still single, never blessed with children, but I've never stopped beliveing and often said to people that some day we will get married - someday.

But it didn't take long for him to hear I was back in town, he rang my phone and wanted to meet one night to talk.

He said he still loved me and was going to get a divorce because he was no longer happy there.

Another couple years go by and he calls me again. He had his divorce and everything was settled. We lived together one summer and split again.

Now I'm 40 and he is 41, his mom died a couple weeks ago, after the funeral he called.

A couple days later his dad called and took all of us out to eat, at that time I found out he had used in inheritence and payed off the last $600 of a $4,500 dollar loan. He knows money is really tight right now.

So here we are 26 years after we first met, and he wants to try again. My concern if he is just doing this to make his dad happy or in memory of his mom, they always wanted us together and still do.

Does he love me the way I still love him?

I can't tell, it's been 3 days without hearing from him - do I call him or wait it out?

I think you should call, just to see how he's doing...

life is life, most people learn to accept others as they are. If his main reason is for his parents, then hes getting what he wants and youre getting what you want. It might not last, and might be purely emotional distress. But if you love him, and he needs love, I dont see what calling him would hurt.

That's an amazing story CBL. Sounds like it should be a movie actually. I think if you's kept in touch throughout all those years, well, there's a reason for that. I think you should call him.

It's been a couple of weeks since you posted this though. Have you called him?

No, I didn't call him and he has not called me either. I do need to call his dad though.