Jon was trying to break a negative cycle when it came to dating relationships. He’d had a string of bad ones, and decided to go back to basics. “(I) thought maybe I needed to look for a woman that shared my moral views,” said the 26-year-old practicing Catholic from Toronto.
Jackie was the first person Jon contacted on CatholicMatch back in 2009, but we should not presume this means it was love at first sight—or love at first profile encounter, as the case may be. The first year after they connected online was made up of casual emails and a short date at a museum. They weren’t a “couple,” but they were good friends.
The distance was a key factor in giving both of them pause. Though 27-year-old Jackie also lives in Ontario, she is in Windsor, which is nearly 400 kilometers (about 250 miles) from Toronto. But in August 2010, they decided to give it a go.
“We overcame the distance by talking every single night for ten months,” Jon told CatholicMatch. In this time frame, Jon came to learn that Jackie was, in his words, “exactly to every detail” the kind of woman he had been looking for.
Jon & Jackie share a fun-loving sense of adventure in addition to their shared faith.
