Rose joined CatholicMatch and was immediately shocked at what she saw. “Normal, genuinely nice men holding decent conversations,” she said. “I was most taken away with the respectful nature of most of the men…many of them were out of the country or out of my area, but it was good to talk and get used to normalcy again.”
The 32-year-old from the Houston area had been trying to get back into the swing of dating. When she joined CatholicMatch in 2010, Rose had just spent six years focused on career development, rather than dating.
When she returned home she began to think about what she wanted. “All of my high school and college single girlfriends were beginning to get married and start their families,” she said. “I evaluated my life…and many of the good, Catholic men from church were either married or engaged.”
So Rose tried her hand at online dating, both here and elsewhere. One thing she wasn’t looking for was dating someone younger than her, even by a little bit. “I tried in the past,” she told CatholicMatch, “with failed attempts of connection.”
Consequently, 29-year-old Nathan did not show up in her searches, but she showed up in his. And when he contacted her, Rose was intrigued.
Nathan invited Rose to drop by on Thanksgiving night and despite misgivings, she took the plunge.
