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*This question is just for research purposes. I'd like to know if fame and money can change someone's perception of someone else.*
Say you dated someone for a couple of weeks/months and then you decided they're a no-go. You finish them. A couple of years later, they become well-known (hotter, funnier, more confident than before). How would you react?
Would it change your perspective?
Would you sell stories to some papers?
Would you try to get in touch with ulterior motives?
Would you brag to your friends about the fact that you dated them?
Would you just ignore them?
I guess I'd tell my friends and family how I had dated her in the past, but I wouldn't try to re-connect with that person now. I had decided they were a no-go for a reason, and for me to date that person again would get her thinking that I just want to be with her now cause she's famous.
A guy I dated in high school became a famous novelist.
Even his fame and fortune can't overcome the fact that we had almost no chemistry. I have never done any of the things you mentioned in the OP because in my mind he's still the kid I knew back then. Even though I know he's well known, he's a person, not a payoff opportunity.
I wouldn't do anything because she's probably got the same issues she had before. Except now she has money, power, and an ego.
So much wisdom in such a small post. If I dropped them for a reason, that reason would still hold, and they'd still be history to me. My negative experience with them would still be in my memory, so I wouldn't brag that I'd known them, nor would I want to remember the time spent together. I would have moved on in my life.
*This question is just for research purposes. I'd like to know if fame and money can change someone's perception of someone else.*
Say you dated someone for a couple of weeks/months and then you decided they're a no-go. You finish them. A couple of years later, they become well-known (hotter, funnier, more confident than before). How would you react?
Would it change your perspective?
Would you sell stories to some papers?
Would you try to get in touch with ulterior motives?
Would you brag to your friends about the fact that you dated them?
Would you just ignore them?
Thank you
I'd say "Damn, guess I messed up!" I'd probably then try to friend them on Facebook or something. I don't think I'd try to sell any stories to the press unless I hated them or really needed the cash.
I did go on two dates with a rather homely music student about 10 years ago. He seemed very sweet and romantic but I just wasn't feeling it. I happened to look him up recently and found his website. He's much better looking now and is the conductor of a symphony orchestra. Did I mess up? Probably.
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Say you dated someone for a couple of weeks/months and then you decided they're a no-go. You finish them. A couple of years later, they become well-known (hotter, funnier, more confident than before). How would you react?
My answers are based on the qualifiers you placed about only briefly dating. If I was in a LTR or marriage with this woman, some of my answers would be slightly different.
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Would it change your perspective?
I mean, they're still the same person, just famous. Doesn't change the fact that we weren't right for each other. Of course, there's this carnal part of me that sort of believes I might think about what could've been. Overall, it wouldn't change anything.
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Would you sell stories to some papers?
Absolutely not. To me, that's tacky. My close friends would know, but that's it.
The only way I would ever speak to the media would be if I got express permission from her or her team-- even then, it wouldn't be to magazines. More like if they did a biography on her or something.
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Would you try to get in touch with ulterior motives?
Again, no.
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Would you brag to your friends about the fact that you dated them?
No, it would be "private trivia." Yes, my close friends would know, but it wouldn't be in a bragging sense.
Would it change your perspective? On what?
Would you sell stories to some papers? Most certainly not.
Would you try to get in touch with ulterior motives? No, but I have met her several times over the years, we get along quite well. My wife likes her too.
Would you brag to your friends about the fact that you dated them? They know.
Would you just ignore them? That would have been verydifficult at one point, easier now though but I see no need. We don't exactly move in the same circles.
We dated for about 18 months.
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