Liz was ready to give up on finding love. It wasn’t necessarily a discouragement with online dating in general or CatholicMatch in particular. The 46-year-old from southern California hadn’t been a part of the site for that long. But sometimes, the prospect of finding lasting love can seem an illusion.
So she did what came naturally for her, and that’s reach out to others. For someone who works in hospice care part-time, compassion is a way of life, and comparatively speaking, it was certainly easier to reach out to new members and welcome them to CatholicMatch. Before she knew it, Sergio had been put in her path.
Liz (at right) has been devoted to her daughter, prayer and her work in hospice care.
Sergio is 56-years-old and had devoted himself to raising his daughters after his first wife passed away ten years ago. But the girls were into their twenties and leaving home.
A void that had always existed in his life was about to open a little wider, and he wanted a special someone to take dancing and to the movies on the weekends.
Sergio and Liz connected online and began a chat that ended up lasting the entire day. “I felt a connection instantly,” Liz recalled. She and Sergio live about a two-hour drive from each other, and they quickly decided to meet halfway that very weekend.
Liz’s first impression of Sergio face-to-face isn’t one she will soon forget. At the meeting place, they had to play phone tag to locate each other. “Then he told me he was looking at me from behind a wall,” Liz recalled. “When I saw him it took my breath away!”
After his daughters moved out, Sergio had a void in his life that Liz filled.
