I still live quite local to the area where I grew up and went through my Teenage years, so from time to time I occasionally cross paths for one reason or another with one of my Ex's from back then! Some will say Hi, and have a chat, often with a family of their own in tow, others have turned up at my home as Tradespeople to do a job, and had no idea what they were walking into because they did not recognise my Married name!
Not recently, but before I retired, I sometimes was busy nursing someone and then recognise either an Ex or one of their family was a visitor on my ward, or worse still the Ex themselves when James were read out in Handover at the beginning of a shift! I always drew the line though as being their allocated nurse, the one that does all their ward based Treatments and Care, and would swop with a colleague to then care for someone who I had no personal connection with. I did get 'Set Jo's once though by someone's sister inviting me away on a Girls weekend to celebrate her 50th Birthday. On the evening of our arrival she made her excuses and said that a couple more people needed collecting from the Airport to join us. She was well aware that I was Married, but one of the people she bought back to stay was her Brother who I dated for a couple of years as a Teenager!
I was curious with her, he had changed so much that I would not have recognised him, a real 'Christian Grey' type Armarni man, whatever you told him, he had done ten times better, wherever you had been, he had flown to in a private Jet, that type of guy! If he was really that up himself, why had he had Three long term failed Relationships and had no Children? Thankfully he developed a bad headache which he blamed on jetlag, and took himself off to bed. I made my excuses the next morning a left early, he wrote to me and sent me a couple of Christmas cards, but I just ignored them and eventually he went away and stopped bothering me.
I was 100% honest and open with my husband about what had happened when I got back, he came up with a theory, he believed that this pair were looking for some free help to look after their elderly parents, and as I lived nearby them, they thought that I would do it as a favour, hence them trying to be so friendly after all these years!