Dave and Natalee were both open to online dating, but the results they were getting were discouraging. “We had been pretty disheartened by the big-name sites,” 56-year-old Natalee told CatholicMatch. “I saw the CatholicMatch advertisement in my Church bulletin and signed up that day.” As luck—or Divine Providence—would have it, 57-year-old Dave was having that same inspiration around the same time.
The couple lives about an hour apart in the general Boston area, and after finding each other online, they spent six weeks keeping communication to messages and chatting. What they were finding out is that they had a spiritual connection, right down to often having the same thing on their minds on a given day.
It was that kind of faith connection that they weren’t finding on “the big-name sites.” Dave had spent 20 years apart from the Church before returning in the mid-1990s. His previous marriage annulled, he wondered openly what he had been thinking. “The fullness of God’s truth was always right in front of me”, his profile told the CatholicMatch audience, and he brought those values to his interactions with Natalee.
She immediately noticed the world of difference between dating someone, and dating someone with God in mind.
Dave's deep faith and spiritual life made him immensely attractive to Natalee.
