Man Grieves Love of His Life He Lost Decades Prior, Bartender Stuns Him by Easily Finding Her on Facebook

A Canadian man fell for his high school sweetheart, but they kept their relationship a secret from her strict parents. She disappeared without a trace, leading the man to mourn their relationship years later, only to find out she was alive and might be the mother of his child!

In October 2023, a TikTok user took to the platform to share a crazy story about an incident at her bar. The woman was a bartender in 2012 when a man walked in looking disheveled and clearly upset about something and asked her to pour him a strong drink.

While making the drink for him, the original poster (OP) asked the man what was wrong. The man confessed that the day he came in was always tough for him because it was the same one when he lost the love of his life 30 years before.

Since it was a slow night with a few local people playing pool, OP couldn’t help but get intrigued. The other patrons had a pitcher of alcohol with them, and the bartender figured they were fine as she delved further into the stranger’s story.

She asked the man to tell her more and explain how he lost the woman he thought he had forever with. The man obliged and told her he and his girlfriend had a fantastic relationship that they kept a secret.

The secrecy was because the woman’s parents were very strict and religious. However, the stranger and his girlfriend were very much in love and planned on running off together to elope. One day, he dropped her off at her parent’s house after having a great date, and they said goodbye.

However, he didn’t hear anything from her the following day, which went on for a while. He eventually called her parents’ house, but nobody answered, causing him to continue calling for days until weeks passed. The man was left heartbroken and confused by his girlfriend’s disappearance.

He couldn’t understand why she’d ghost him like that without saying anything, especially since everything had seemed fine on their last date. Then, weeks later, as he’s about to give up on her, his girlfriend’s mother picks up the ringing phone.

Concerned, he asked where his girlfriend was and if she was okay since he hadn’t heard from her in a long time. His girlfriend’s mother shocked him by not answering his questions but demanding that he never call their house again.

She also told him not to show up at their house, promising to call the police if he did and then dropped the phone. The man was left terrified, and being young, he didn’t want to get arrested; since there was nothing he could do, he decided to move on with his life but never forgot her.

Curiously, OP asked where that story happened and where the man and his girlfriend grew up. The patron revealed it was in West Vancouver, causing the bartender to note that it wasn’t far from Surrey, where the man currently lives.

She asked him if he’d ever reached out to her ever since, and his answer was, “No, I have no idea what happened.” OP then asked why he didn’t look her up on Facebook, but the man in his 50s didn’t know about the social media platform.

The TikTok user pulled out her phone and asked for the man’s girlfriend’s name, offering to look her up on the platform. After scrolling through a couple of people with the same name, OP found someone who is based in West Vancouver and showed the man the picture, asking if it was the right person, and his reply was:

“Oh my God, that’s her.”

The man had a look of disbelief on his face as he looked at the love of his life. The woman’s profile was locked, and only a few things were visible from her profile, but the man at the bar was still shocked. One of the things visible from her profile was that she has a daughter.

The man said he considered reaching out to the pair before leaving the bar.

When OP opened the woman’s daughter’s profile, she noticed the younger woman had just celebrated her 29th birthday. That information gave OP pause, and she pulled up one of the girl’s pictures, leaving her surprised as she realized that the woman looked exactly like the man in the bar!

The TikToker showed the man what she saw, and he lost it and started crying! It dawned on them that the man was probably banned from seeing his girlfriend all those years ago because she got pregnant with his baby, and her parents disapproved of him.

So they kept it a secret and kept him out of his child’s life. In a follow-up video, OP revealed that the shocked man finished his drink before she showed him how to use Facebook’s search bar so he could go look his ex-girlfriend up on his own.

The man said he considered reaching out to the pair before leaving the bar. Shortly after that incident, OP stopped working at the bar and never saw the man again but never stopped wondering what happened next.

To try to find the man, OP shared everything she could remember about him and his story. She also shared what she could recall about the man’s possible daughter. TikTok users were enthralled by OP’s tale, and many left comments below the first clip.

“That’s so sad if it actually is his daughter,” someone wrote.

“So, did he get to meet her?? Did he get in contact with his old gf?? I need closure,” another viewer lamented.

Responding to the follow-up video, someone said, “That’s literally so sad, she was still the love of his life after that long and potentially missed out on having a happy family 🙁 .”

People in the comment sections were very invested in the story, with some people mentioning that OP could check her Facebook history to see what she searched for 11 years ago! One person was so dedicated to the story he wrote,

“Please TikTok, I have never asked you for anything before but please find this man for me.”

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