OMG, that reminds me. The boyfriend fresh off his divorce from his high school girlfriend that messed him up, one of the things he would ghost me for was his softball. He played as often as he could now that he was single. I mean, it was nice for him that he was now free to play that much but he was obsessed.
You guys sure had a bunch of high school girlfriends that really messed it up for some of us.
Once I graduated high school I never dated another high school girl, and there were no ties. To me going away to college meant getting rid of high school ways and learning new things. To say the vistas opened up is putting it mildly.
My college years up to my early 30's were the best days of my life. I was then and am now grateful for the vast bulk of those experiences, most of which were conducted through the lenses of unbounded optimism. I'd lop off an arm to get that optimism back, I really miss it.