The A-listers rekindled their romance 17 years after they broke up in But there was a genuine love there.

The Merced, California, couple — he a youth center program director and she a nurse — met in eighth-grade math class after Escobar was sent to live with an uncle just outside Seattle to escape his troubled youth in New York. He was expelled and sent back East, where he landed in a detention facility.

More trouble followed, including a stint on the streets, and the two lost contact for 15 years before Escobar tracked her down on Classmates. In between, there were marriages, children, moves and jobs, but Jessica also never forgot. They married in and have six children between them.

Meg Calkins, a year-old college professor in Raleigh, North Carolina, and Steve Badger, a lawyer of the same age, became close friends in Indianapolis in fifth grade. They remained in the friend zone through high school but became college sweethearts junior year, just briefly. After a couple of months, the two headed off for summer programs abroad.
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She was She got married when she was Badger married while in law school. That union lasted 29 years, before divorce. For 30 years, Calkins and Badger laid eyes on each other just once, at their 20th high school reunion. Both found themselves free in He got over it. He wound up reaching out himself on Facebook after his divorce.

They chatted online, then Badger drove miles to have lunch with Calkins in Louisville, Kentucky, where her daughter was playing in a volleyball tournament. The two moved in together just three weeks ago after tending a long-distance relationship during the pandemic. Manly has seen a rise in rekindled love matches in the digital age with the ease of internet searching and social media.

The maturing process, however, can sometimes go a long way toward a happy ending. Jordan in Dallas was a year-old intern in the commercial real estate brokerage where year-old Jake Jordan worked when they began dating while she was still in college.
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She graduated and they broke up after three years. I just took my first job and was independent for the first time and wanted to kind of enjoy that.

The two reconnected in They married March 27 of this year. So how does he handle stress now, at 40?

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