Mixed Marriages

Dawn & Matthew -
North Carolina, United State

Married September 2013

“Wow” Was All She Could Say

Dawn and Matthew were online dating “noobs.” But sometimes beginner’s luck is all you need…

One day Dawn found herself at the computer with a little time to kill. “I was just playing around online,” she remembers. On a lark, she signed up for our site and browsed profiles until one really spoke to her. “He was so cute!” she gushes. There was no doubt about it, this fella was worth putting herself out there for.

So Dawn sent him a Flirt. And waited… Would there be a response?

You bet! The man she reached out to was Matthew. He was looking for a dating site himself and found his way to ours. When he looked over Dawn’s profile, it checked all the boxes for him. “She was attractive,” he says. “I felt life was short.” Why not respond and see what came of it?

That went well… Soon these singles found themselves having long phone conversations. “We talked for hours,” Dawn tells us. After a few deep conversations, both parties felt ready to see what a real date told them about this pairing.

Together in the same room for the first time, no one was disappointed. “‘Wow’ was all I could say,” Dawn giggles. She was impressed with Matthew. He liked what he saw, too. “I thought she was very cute,” he says, blushing a little bit.

Dawn says that based on his profile and their earlier interactions, she wasn’t prepared for what a truly nice guy Matthew was. “He was so sweet,” she says. Matthew was pleased that the person in front of him matched the profile he’d seen online. “She actually looked like her pictures!” he laughs.

However, as good as their first date was, there were no guarantees of a second. Geography was not on their side. So would they meet again? “I wasn’t really sure, since we lived in different states,” says Dawn. Matthew wasn’t any more confident about it. “I didn’t think we would see each other again,” he admits.

But they stayed in touch and before long it was clear that they felt too strongly about each other to be sensible and bail out on this. “He is even more loving than I thought,” Dawn marvels. Matthew couldn’t let Dawn get away, either. “She has a heart of gold,” he says.

The funny thing is that they weren’t each other’s “type” as they understood it, before meeting. “He is very different from what I pictured myself with,” Dawn notes. But now that she has Matthew in her life, she can’t imagine being with anyone else. That’s why for Dawn, what transpired next just felt right.

“We were living in North Carolina,” she begins. “One night I turned to him and said, ‘we should get married!’ He said, ‘You took the words right out of my mouth.’”

Being together is everything they hoped it would be. “I am so happy now,” says Dawn. “He gives me a reason to smile every day!”

Matthew’s vision of the future is suddenly clear. “Finding her gives my life purpose,” he says.

For those hoping to duplicate this couple’s happiness, they have a few simple words of encouragement. “Just be honest!” Dawn exclaims. Matthew adds, “If it feels good, go for it.”

If Dawn and Matthew found their feel-good connection, so can you.

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