Love, again. A second chance for happiness. Meetings someone after 50
Love, a second time around.
26 year marriage, he cheated, it ended. That’s a story for another day.
10 years ago I met my husband, married him before the first year. We just had our 9th anniversary.
Two people who both had long first marriages, with kids. Now we have 4 grandchildren between us.
Lots of stories in these 9 years
He is the person I can be my total self with. He loves me and tells me this multiple times per day. I reciprocate.
Unlike my first marriage I don’t need to be with him all day every day. But I do prefer it when he’s with me.
I highly recommend online dating. It should be a good quality type of online dating site where you actually pay something to be there to avoid a lot of fakes. Ours was the site for older people and it had less of the fake profiles, married people trying to see what is out there.
He and I had been circling each other for 30 years without knowing it. We lived near each other and probably walked past each other at the local convenience store.
As younger people we lived farther away but were in certain places at the same time. The universe threw online dating and we found each other.
I almost ghosted him. He must have know because he sent one last message that hit just right. It made me laugh. When I showed the message to a friend she didn’t get why I “had to meet this guy”
We had been chatting a bit and then I ignored him having come off a several month relationship that once again left me wanting more.
I had decided I’d just occupy my time alone for a while and reset.
Then the message came. Here’s the thing- with getting to know someone, we put on our best selves. He broke that rule.
It went something like this:
I guess you’re gone. It could have been wild, it could’ve been exciting … but that’s just my driving”
He wasn’t being prim and polite. He was showing me his sense of humor.