But what if your first love was your best childhood friend?

Anyway, I have to go with the childhood best friend. I just think I'd want a friend over a lover. But also, would I even still love my first love? Life isn't a KDrama where the answer is "yes" 9 times out of 10, so the childhood friend seems like the safer option.

First love isn't necessarily the one we would end up with. And at times, they might be someone we are better off without. So, I am more inclined to reunite with childhood friends and rant about just anything.

This one gave me a short pause as both are interesting options. But I chose to go with reconnect with your best childhood friend since it offers an easier conversational pathway to the present.

However strong the love is, uncertainties of life can change the one who receives the affection of one's love.

And, for something to make me not be with my first love, then there's no reconnecting to do. This is where I'll separate dramaland from my reality. Only extenuating circumstances can make us reconnect. A desire or a wish? Never. Not happening.

I voted reconnecting with your best childhood friend. This one is a different kind of reunion of its own. And there's a lot of catching up to be done.

Reconnecting with my first love will definitely be fraught with mixed feelings of nostalgia, joy and regret on what was lost and would have been. With friendship, we are simply catching up on lost time.

To reconnect with someone you really bonded with sounds better than the first love that is now someone you don't really know. I'm still best friends with my school mate and we can pick up where we left off no matter how long its been since we last met.

I'm definitely going with reconnecting with my childhood best friend! She was great, and we were close for a long time, but time and distance and busy schedules make it hard to reach out in a meaningful way, so it would be great if I had some better way of making that happen.

My first love was my high school boyfriend, who I wisely broke up with my senior year. He wasn't an awful person, but he had some red flags that I was too young and infatuated to recognize. Now I'm happily married to someone way better for me, so no need to reopen a relationship that I have no unanswered questions about and for which I have no nostalgia.

I am still lucky enough to be in touch with my best childhood friends. So it would be interesting to meet my first love with no expectations.

This is one of those polls I clicked “view results.” There are REASONS why the first love did not turn into everlasting and why childhood friend did not turn into adult friend. It’s like selecting between two baggage — I’d rather leave both behind.

How about just reconnect with your first love? Reunite seems a bit much. It seems like such a long time ago. But, all I did as a child was play basketball and video games and make sarcastic jokes with my closest friend. Not a great reason to reconnect.

Reuniting with your first love would only be worthwhile if it was mutual. Sadly, my life is littered with unrequited, unhappy first loves. People who didn't have or didn't want a clue, or people that I should have known better and kept away from!
Mind you, I would love to know how Cameron from third grade is doing- I hope he is happy!

Is it cheating if I have two scenarios of how this vote would play out? 😍

In my fantasy version of this poll, I'm reconnecting with my best childhood friend because he happens to be my first love and I want the best of both worlds. What is love but a friendship on fire?

But in the real life version of this, I vote to reunite with my first love because my childhood friends are mostly already within my orbit. But he disappeared. Not that I wanted to see him after he found another girl 🙄 (I love how kdramas idolise first loves).

My childhood best friend is still my best friend (we've known each other for 34 years!), so I don't need that. The reunion with my first love sounds interesting because I don't really know who gets that honor -- I had one-sided crushes, a couple of almost-relationships, and an awkward first relationship, so it might be interesting for fate to show me who it was by letting us meet again.

My best childhood friend was a selfish, backstabbing bitch who always took me for granted. I was a very lonely kid so I just didn't know better. But no one's patience is limitless - certainly not mine - so at some point I stopped trying to reconnect with her and, unsurprisingly, she didn't bother to do that herself either. It's a bit of complicated situation since she is daughter of my mom's semi-former bestie herself, so both older women were attempting to force us to make up multiple times, but I'm too old to fall for this now and she probably just doesn't care.

My "first love" was in kindergarten and that bastard forgot me entirely after mere months since we moved. I do not want someone empty-headed like that back in any form, tyvm. Nor do I wish to reunite with any of my exes, ewww, what a nasty idea... tho I'd like to know if some of them are OK because they are decent people and life has been rough for all of us here lately. Ironically, the only guy I don't feel much of sympathy like that is also the only one who literally lives nearby and I keep stumbling upon him regularly so I know for sure that snake is fine. And pathetically acts like he doesn't recognize me - likely in a fear of well-deserved belated beating...

In short, both options SUCK, I'll pass this round.

I neither have a first love nor a best childhood friend.

I've never fallen in love with any of the dudes I had dated and having attended an all-girls Catholic school from kindergarten to year 10, dating was a non-starter until university.

And I had to contend with the Queen Bees and Mean Girls all through school.

So I'm sitting this one out.

So, on a slightly happier note: Since my so called "first love" is not unlike the illustrious Kavanaugh, I'd rather jump from a helicopter into an active volcano than see that guy again.
My childhood friend wins … not only because the competition is really bad :)

I say heck to the no on both counts.

I have two childhood best friends and we have stayed friends for the last 30+ years. Though we no longer spend hours on the phone with each other, we text and visit.

I've never had a first love or any love. I've had minor crushes here and there, but have never encountered anyone who gave that "first love" feeling as depicted in dramas. I guess I'll pick "reunite with my first love" since I have yet to meet him and want to.

Easy. My childhood best friend passed away way too soon. I still remember getting the phone call about his passing from his mother so vividly. It’s been well over a decade and I miss him dearly. I’d give anything to reconnect with him.