Idealising a previous partner can seem a safer option than putting your heart on the line with someone new.
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In her classic novel Rebecca, author Daphne du Maurier wrote that "we can never go back again, that much is certain". But given the chance, it's safe to say many of us would probably go back and revisit an old relationship that never felt quite finished.
Every woman has her "one that got away" - the man she loved years ago and has never quite forgotten. Or there's the missed opportunity, that guy not taken but often on the mind.
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