Relationship: Their 'One That Got Away' Married Someone Else. No ex haunts us more than “the one who got away,” Angela Sitka, licensed marriage and family therapist, told HuffPost. You can even be happily married to someone else and still experience waves of sadness, anger, guilt or regret. But if your “one who got away” is a crush you didn’t act on or a missed connection, those encounters are open-ended. “[My former-crush] married a brilliant, gorgeous, kind woman who is a wildly talented writer and a great human being.

Source: Huffington Post February 14, 2026 18:16 UTC