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Has reunion with first love become a trend?
by Jeanne Tai

 

Forget about puppy love.

2011 was the year for "recycled love", as women give long-forgotten romances a second shot.

We cheered when Hong Kong singers Sammi Cheng and Karen Mok reunited with boyfriends of yesteryear.

Sammi patched up with singer Andy Hui after a seven-year split, while Karen's beau was her first love, whom she'd dated when she was a 17-year-old university student.

And in August, R&B superstar Rihanna reconnected with her first boyfriend, Negus Sealy, whom she had dated before becoming famous - thank goodness, it wasn't Chris Brown.

Some baulk at the idea of reuniting with an ex, but there's something undeniably sweet about rekindled romances. They're touching and evoke wistful ruminations about how The One might've been there all along. And social networking sites have made it easier to reconnect with a long-lost flame.

"There's a sense of comfort when you get back together with an old flame, like wearing a pair of well-worn shoes," says Ho Shee Wai, a psychologist and director of The Counselling Place.

And "re-romances" are happening here, too.

Best known for her musings on love, relationships and (until recently) her abiding singlehood, The Straits Times columnist Sumiko Tan got married to her junior college (JC) crush, Quek Suan Shiau, last July.

We have also picked out three celebrity couples whom we think should get back together, and three celebrity couples whom we think are better off staying split.

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Karen Mok and Johannes: The couple got married on Oct 1 at a countryside vineyard in Florence, Italy, where they first met at the age of 17 while studying. (Photo: Universal Music)
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