What if you ran into the love of your life after several years and they said....!
Question: "I'm in a new relationship, have been for a while now and he/she makes me very happy. We are very much in love."
What would your reaction be?
Would you smile (your best fake smile) and say "I'm happy for you. You deserve it."
Would you snidely say "Oh, well, bully for you!" and walk away with an attitude?
Would you make up some imaginary new love for yourself?
Or would you tell him/her how miserable you are without them?
What would you do and why?
Answers: "I'm in a new relationship, have been for a while now and he/she makes me very happy. We are very much in love."
What would your reaction be?
Would you smile (your best fake smile) and say "I'm happy for you. You deserve it."
Would you snidely say "Oh, well, bully for you!" and walk away with an attitude?
Would you make up some imaginary new love for yourself?
Or would you tell him/her how miserable you are without them?
What would you do and why?
I see her regularly, and am going to her wedding in a few months.
I'm happy for her, as the guy she is with now is better for her than I would have been.
EDIT: We realised her feelings for me weren't the same as mine for her, and made the decision to split before things broke down so we could stay friends. Better one of us happy than both miserable, and since we split we've both moved on with our lives, and stayed good friends. That's what love is about to me, doing what's best for the other person.
i would try to make the talk sound interesting.
Get the over it is what I would do.
I would not be fake or mean tho.
I would be happy for them, sometimes things don't turn out the way you want them to so the only thing to do is move on.
i would put on a fake smile and move on with my life....if he met some one else the obviuosly it wasnt love...adn i would find me a new guy..=]
I know that I would say I was very happy for them. I'm not a mean person, though, so I can't speak for anyone else.
what is wrong with you?
I would fake smile and say I'm happy for you.
I would feel like the world had ended but I would smile my best fake smile and say "I'm happy for you. You deserve it." I would feel better by saying that but still feel lost and alone. I would tell myself that he wasnt the one.
happened to me before - smile (my best fake smile) and say "I'm happy for you. You deserve it." and believe atleast half of it
I would probably say, "Congratulations," but I wouldn't try to fake a smile or my emotional reaction. The love of my life knows I'll always have feelings for him, and knows me too well that any attempt to hide my reaction to the situation would be futile.
i think that the right thing to do would say that "im happy for you, you deserve it" and smile. but if i loved teh guy, i would tell him how much i miss him and your true feelings because it is the only way i would get him back and i would go for it because i know that i would only get that one chance. so go for ittt!
Would you smile (your best fake smile) and say "I'm happy for you. You deserve it."
Even if you still have/had some feelings for him, you don't want to look like you wished him the worse. :) Be the better person.
Be happy for them,ive moved on and so have they.
I would say: And what the fu** makes you think i care? I didn't even ask how ur love life was doing i just said "hi" sheesh!!! *walks away angry/annoyed*
I would smile (an honest smile) and say I'm happy for you. You deserve it. I would do that because I would really mean it. There is no need in lying. I wouldn't make up a new love but I would definitely say that I'm really happy for you and now I realize that it just wasn't meant to be for us.
Well I would be scared, because he is dead and has been for 11 years now...
but lets say he was alive, and this happens, I would be very happy for him, because he was truly a great amazing person, and he deserved the best of everything and if I couldn't make him happy, then i hope someone did.
I would smile (my best fake smile) and say "I'm happy for you. You deserve it."
I would fake smile and say I'm happy for him because it's true {if he's happy then I'm happy} who knows maybe he'll break up w/ her and realize I'm who he wants
Well by now I've realized they really weren't the love of my life because I am with the love of my life now. I'd tell them congrats and move on.
Id be gutted but i would never let on,so i reckon i would go with...The best smile and say i was happy for him,
I would say I was happy for her and make polite small talk. I would ask questions about the new guy...just enough to be able to figure out where he lives. That's step 1 of my plan.
Step 2 would involve a lot of sleepless nights, as I would stake out his place and learn his routine. Armed with knowledge, I would move onto step 3.
Step 3 is the step in which I devise a plan to kidnap and torture the new guy. I'm sure he's a nice guy and everything, but he still deserves it for daring to date a girl that broke up with me a mere 3 years ago after a long 6 week relationship.
Step 4 involves me forging a break-up note from him. Something along the lines of, "I'm a child-molester who's on the run from the law. It wouldn't have worked up anyway, you weren't young enough for my tastes."
On to step 5, the last step. I'm there to comfort her in her time of need. We fall back in love and get married. We buy a house and have 3 kids. Her old boyfriend is still kept in an abandoned farmhouse outside of town and I stop by daily to give him stale bread and water.
In summary, a pretty standard response, I would say.
i believe i'd say that i'm happy for them. and that i hope the future brings them the best of luck. would i believe it! There might be two ppl concerned here, one whom i can't think of as the love of my life, they were just someone i liked once. that person, i'll be ver happy for them, whoever they're with. (Glad i got rid of them). While the other is someone i might have underestimated and took for granted. That person i truly regret not continuing my relationship with, or at least, date them a bit more. I'd be happy for them also, but with some regret and thoughts of 'if things were different'.