First loves are TOUGH — especially when you start to see all the red flags you missed along the way once it's over. If you've been dissecting your own early love stories by reading Reddit threads or ...

“Wait, you dated her? She’s basically royalty,” said an old schoolmate of my first love when we realized our mutual connection. It was nearly a year after the breakup, but even hearing her name made ...

Dear Abby: I have been thinking a lot lately about my first love. The thoughts come and go, which I know is normal. A week or so ago, I stumbled upon her LinkedIn account, saw her profile picture and ...

#PulseFirstLove is a weekly series that captures the emotions people felt, and the motions they went through the first time they tried being in a relationship. The first of our #PulseFirstLove stories ...

DEAR ABBY: I have been thinking a lot lately about my first love. The thoughts come and go, which I know is normal. A week or so ago, I stumbled upon her LinkedIn account, saw her profile picture and ...

#PulseFirstLove is a weekly series that captures the emotions people felt, and the motions they went through the first time they tried being in a relationship. This week’s #PulseFirstLove story is the ...

I had lost faith in the universe — until an apparition of my smiling, 16-year-old late ex-boyfriend appeared. By Mara Chadnick My husband was unbothered when I mentioned that my first love’s ghost ...

We recently asked members of the BuzzFeed Community to share their spiciest relationship hot takes. And while some of those "controversial" opinions felt pretty darn reasonable to me, others ...

A millennial woman who had been single her whole life met her first boyfriend in her 40s – after he messaged her on TikTok. Mia Chard, 42, said she had tried to find romantic connections in her ...

You want to live independently and follow your dreams? Of course, you do. And so does Ella, 19, the protagonist of Norwegian writer-director Mari Storstein's fiction feature directorial debut My First ...