Originally Posted by host

After a tearful good bye, in 1974, present wife and I had no contact for 27 years. I came across her listing on classmates.com and paid to join that site for the privilege of sending her an email via a blind address. Although I had maintained "a thing" for her, throughout our long separation, I still deliberated for seven months before I sent that initial email to her.

I've married exactly every 14 years. I'm hoping the cycle is now broken.