So what about Christine?
I’ll bet you thought that you heard the end of Christine after How Find-a-Sweetheart.com and Romance Coaching got started, Chapter 1.
Well, there is more to Christine’s story, and here it is:
Christine wasn’t completely scared off. Every couple of years or so, she would get in touch and take a gingerly step towards the romance pool. We’d work on a profile essay. Once, we took lots of pictures, some of which were really good. She’d look around online and maybe see one person that interested her. But for many reasons, that’s as far as things got, at least as far as I knew. Maybe there was a lot she didn’t tell me about, for fear that I would jump back in and terrify her again. I had learned to modify my approach considerably, but Christine wasn’t about to try it out.
Also, though Christine and I were old friends, personality-wise, we are very different. I tend to decide on a direction and move fast. A definite rabbit. Christine is much more cautious, but she gets where she is going, slow and steady. A tortoise.
So here’s a part of a newsy email Christine sent a couple of weeks ago:
My news is that I am dating someone. The bad news is that he is 15 years older but the good news is that we have fun together. The bad news is that he lives three hours away. Too far for dinner out but close enough to get together on weekends.
WHAT???
Email was not fast enough. I called Christine. NOTHING I had heard recently made me more excited. Christine has a boyfriend.
She did not meet him on Match.com. A recently widowed 84 year old, he is Christine’s younger sister’s father-in-law. Since Christine’s husband was 20 years older than she, this guy is a relative spring chicken. He clearly spotted Christine, liked what he saw, and made the first moves. She was willing, they both seem able.
As Christine says, “It is really nice to have someone who want to hold your hand.”
How about that? I am SO happy for Christine and her new beau. I don’t know how much (if anything) I have had to do with the results, but one thing I DO know, and so does Christine: I have been cheer leading her all the way!
