DEAR ABBY:

I reconnected with my high school first love. Unfortunately, both of us were married. His wife didn’t win her battle with cancer and passed away. I eventually got a divorce. All through this time, we were intimate, spending as much time together as we could. (We live in different cities.)

It has been eight months since we reconnected, and I’m ready for a relationship. I know he’s nowhere near healed or close to ready to be in another relationship. This is the third time in our lives we have been brought together and couldn’t “be” together. I don’t know whether to let go or to wait. Please help. — ONE WHO GOT AWAY

DEAR ONE:

Perhaps the third time will be the charm because you are now both single. While you may have to wait for this man to finish grieving for the wife to whom

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