My Ex-Boyfriend Tried to Win Me Back with a Grand Gesture, But I Found Out He Was Already Married

What If

It had been two years since I last saw Mark. Our breakup was messy—unfinished conversations, unresolved feelings.

He was my first love. The kind you think will last forever… until it doesn’t.

I’d moved on—or tried to. Focused on work, friends, and finding myself again.

But when his message came—“Can we talk?”—I felt that old ache resurface.

We met at a quiet park near my apartment, where we used to go all the time.

He looked the same, but older somehow. Sadder.

“I’m sorry,” he said. “I let you go without realizing what I had.”

I listened. I’d waited so long to hear those words.

But they didn’t heal anything. They reopened wounds I had fought hard to close.

“You can’t just show up and expect it to be okay,” I told him. “I was broken. And I put myself back together—without you.”

“I know,” he said quietly. “But I want to fix things. I want you back.”

A flicker of hope stirred in me—but this time, I wasn’t sure if hope was enough.