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Lost Loves - Rekindling Love and Great Love Stories
By Nancy Kalish, Ph.D, MyLife.com Relationship Expert
Here is where you will find interesting research results regarding lost love relationships and inspirational love stories from MyLife.com’s Relationship Expert, Nancy Kalish, Ph.D. She is recognized as the international expert on rekindled romances, lost loves, and first love s, and has been in great demand as a speaker on this upbeat topic.
Also, Nancy is well known for her sought after book, “Lost & Found Lovers: Facts and Fantasies of Rekindled Romances ” just released in paperback, 2005.
Dr. Kalish has been conducting research on this topic since 1993. This is an international landmark study of 2000 people (and always growing!) who tried a reunion with a lost love 5 or more years after their separations. The book discusses why these relationships are so powerful and includes love stories in the couples' own words.
Dr. Kalish Attends Her Own School Reunion - Enjoy her Reunion Story
Research Results from Nancy Kalish Ph.D
It is common for people to attempt to reunite with an old flame -- even before the Internet. These romances seem to be very successful. 72% of the original couples reported that they were still together at the time of the survey. If they had been each other's first loves, 78% were still together. Two-thirds of the couples had been first loves.
The reasons the young romances had ended were situational -- moved away, too young, went into the military. The second time around, however, the original roadblocks were gone. The most common reason by far for the breakups was "parents disapproved" and forced them apart. Resentment and bitterness towards their parents often grew over the years, as they regretted the time that they had lost, including the opportunity to have children together.
A Lost and Found Lover’s Story
Thousands of people rekindle relationships with lost loves. Here, Nancy will share some inspirational love stories.
A Love Story: I’ve asked myself countless times why I placed the phone call to my Lost Lover. It wasn’t done with the conscious thought that renewing our old love relationship would be the outcome. Maybe it was the idea that I was turning the "Big Five- O" that made me want to rekindle old friendships. Back then, we were friends long before we were lovers. We talked that day on the phone for two hours. After that, I found myself thinking about my Lost Lover constantly.
One night I got out of bed and wrote down all the events I could remember. Most were humorous, and I found myself laughing out loud as I listed them. I began to think that she would also enjoy reminiscing, so I sent her my list. The response was another list-with additional events I had forgotten! Now, ten months later, we have seen each other about eight times. Our relationship is very intense. It is as if our love was put on "pause" over thirty years ago and then mysteriously once again put back into the "play" mode. One of the feelings we have is a physical aching for each other. We long to talk, kiss, and hold each other, skin to skin. We have sent mushy cards and tape-recorded messages to listen to when we cannot be together. Even if our relationship never results in marriage, our experience over these past months has been a most satisfying one and an experience that can never be taken away from us. So many things seem to be happening in our relationship for some spiritual purpose. For instance, I had been out of town on a business trip and had not read a local paper for two weeks-until the day I picked up the paper which had an article about Nancy Kalish's research project. It all seems to be fate.
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