If all relationships could be stopped and started again, would you?
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CuriousCat89
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I wouldn't have started one of mine, if I had known.
ConstanceEvermuse
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If it's gotten bad enough to stop, I don't want a do-over.
"Don't step in the same pile twice."
Grandpa's words of wisdom
"Don't step in the same pile twice."
Grandpa's words of wisdom
MarilynMonroeFan
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Wow! If I read that as single woman, I wonder why you all not are happy???
cocokittysurprise
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No. My relationships ran their course, and there are none I would want to revisit.
TunnelKing089
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Orwellian69
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fuck no
JohnSmith51
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Absolutely not.
A relationship has experiences. Starting over is just meeting someone for the first time.
I like the investment of time, and the building of them all.
A relationship has experiences. Starting over is just meeting someone for the first time.
I like the investment of time, and the building of them all.
Wageslave
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Don't we all.
Experience gives us the test, then teaches the lesson.
latecomer91364
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Don't want to go back to any.
SalaciousMonkey22
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I don’t even understand what this question is asking. 
Badback925
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Picturing Bill Murray in the movie Groundhog Day. Learns a little every day and keeps improving his chances with her.
lacandy
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So I think I read this differently than everyone else seems to have.
I took the question as if I could stop my relationship and go back and start over would I?
Always a hard question on any level because while the relationship isn’t stellar these days, I wouldn’t start over because then there’s a possibility that things go in a different direction and I could not have my kids, or my best friends…I believe in the Butterfly Effect to a degree, and while I’m not shouting from the rooftops today…I’ve had a pretty fucking good time getting to this point.
I took the question as if I could stop my relationship and go back and start over would I?
Always a hard question on any level because while the relationship isn’t stellar these days, I wouldn’t start over because then there’s a possibility that things go in a different direction and I could not have my kids, or my best friends…I believe in the Butterfly Effect to a degree, and while I’m not shouting from the rooftops today…I’ve had a pretty fucking good time getting to this point.
Ssbbw4u1974
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If I could go back...
Id try differently. I'd not put my heart in it if I could get a do over.
Id try differently. I'd not put my heart in it if I could get a do over.
barefootgirl69
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Would I? No.
If I could go back, there are some I wouldn't have continued or started to begin with. I know that would change my life, but I'd still have my children, so I'm okay with that.
If I could go back, there are some I wouldn't have continued or started to begin with. I know that would change my life, but I'd still have my children, so I'm okay with that.
Wonderer67
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Things have not been easy.
But no, it worked out the way it worked out. And I’m OK with that.
But no, it worked out the way it worked out. And I’m OK with that.
env789
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I would take a do-over. There was so much I didn't know about myself 20 years ago that absolutely would and should inform a relationship. I suspect she feels the same - we've both been diagnosed with things that explain a lot in retrospect. Things that I believe would alter our beliefs about our mutual compatibility. We might well end up together again/still, but it would be with a much better understanding of ourselves.
