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this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2025
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I wouldn't change a thing, otherwise I wouldn't be able to meet my partner.
If we assume I become my 8 year old self and live my life over, this becomes a problem. I love my wife and would not want to risk changing anything so that I meet her. Yet we at and dated at 16… this would be problematic as I would be a 45 year old man in the body of a 16 year old. Creepy factors aside, could I pretend to be what I think 16 year old me was like? And if I did would the relationship not be based on a lie?
Imagine going back in time thinking you will be able to get the same partner but earlier, but after like few minutes of conversation it turns out that the other person thinks you are a fucking creep and doesn't want to have anything to do with you ever. It would be a fucking nightmare.
Yep, for us it only worked precisely due to a ton of branching choices changing who we are and how we lived our lives prior to meeting.
Aww that's very sweet. I know exactly where and when I met my partner though, and I could show up to the meeting way better prepared for our life together :)
Great! For us, so many things had to go right and wrong for us to meet each other at the right place, right time, and right frame of mind. Honestly any slight change could have led us to never meeting or never liking each other.
[Panics trying to remember every "correct" move since I was 8]
Yea, lol. Would be awful!