Back Together Again!

Remember your first love? After years apart, these readers were magically reunited with theirs – and found the spark still burns bright.

- Alice Grebot

‘THIS HAS COMPLETELY RENEWED MY FAITH IN LOVE’

CATHY UNDERWOOD, 52, is married to Andrew, 55. Cathy is a yoga teacher and movement therapist (yoga4mums. com) who has two sons from a previous marriage, Tyler, 18, and Corben, 16.

From the moment Andrew and I first met, there was an instant spark. It was 1985 – I was 18 – and we were cast together in a show at the London stage school we both attended. He was extremely charismatic, very individual and a brilliant singer. I was utterly in awe.

It sounds like a cliché, but all the boys wanted to be like him and all the girls wanted to be with him.

We began dating and quickly fell in love. I’d been out with someone before, but this felt completely different. I’d get goosebumps just looking at him.

Within a few months, Andrew had finished stage school and we were living together.

During that time, he was signed to a band. His contract moved him to America and so we had to split up. I was absolutely heartbroken.

Every so often he’d return to the UK and we’d meet up briefly, but it became obvious it wasn’t going to work. I was so in love with him, it started to drive me crazy. I told him I couldn’t endure it any longer and we went our separate ways.

In my heart, I knew he was my ideal man, but our career circumstances were against us and we were still so young.

When we split up, hard as it was, I’d come to terms with having to let him go. So I put him out of my head and tried to get on with my life.