Sharons Victory's Journal, 11 February 2019

It's inspiring to hear about your tenacity - go get it! 

Maybe the cheesecake was missing from the date....Love at first “bite.” Haha 😂 

Keep the cheesecake...let the dude go. 

Dating is harder than dieting.  

Guuurrl I’m on Eharmony and that shit is wild. Crazy. Scary. Creepy. Imma just recycle a few old ones for now 😂 At least I know what I’m getting! One day though Sharon, one day. You, me, both will find him.  

Swedish...the funny part is i know what you mean 100%...right there with you!! 😂😂😂 hopefully we do! Patience i guess and no settling! <3 lol 

Recipe please !!!! 

My friends, I found the love of my life online at age 54, in 2008, and married him five years later, so it *is* possible. He's two years older. We'd both kissed our share of frogs/froggettes (and had married a couple of them). I think the keys, for my part, were (1) laying out in my "profile" *exactly* who I am and my non-negotiables for a relationship-leading-to-marriage, and (2) limiting the "range of my net" to a reasonable driving distance from my home. It was a small dating site (since absorbed by Match.com) that had its share of ... "rejectables" (for lack of a better word). And I know I wasn't every guy's cup-of-tea.  

My husband told me, a few years after our wedding, that he really wasn't expecting to find someone, let alone someone to marry. I asked, "So, what changed your mind?" He answered, "Well, I met you, and you were great!" At a marriage retreat at our church last year, each person was asked to describe their marriage in one word. My husband said, "Waltz. Smooth and easy." That has meant more to me than all the "I love you's" I'd heard, before or since. Every time I recall his words, I fall in love with him all over again.  

@Mira I met my ex hubby on eharmony. Great 11 years. My profile is very honest and reflects who I am. Perhaps that why I attract crazy. Cuz I’m a bit cray, cray myself 😂 

@Swedishblondie, a little cray-cray is good! My husband is never bored! LOL! 

You’re not cursed. You just live in Stockton. Believe me I know. I grew up in Stockton, lived there until I was 34 years old. I never could find a good relationship. Then I moved away and met my wife almost instantly. It’s not who you are, but where you are. 

Your weightloss bar is about to turn green. Hit it sweetheart! 

Stockton! I corresponded and talked on the phone for *months* with a "widower" I "met" online from Stockton (family in Hayward, CA) whose only son had died. He said he was a USCG pilot who'd helped rescue people from Hurricane Katrina and was on his way to Kuwait when his father died. I found the obituary naming the guy's three brothers and HIS WIFE AND TWO DAUGHTERS! Oooooh, was I PO'd! He cured me of the "romantic LDR." 

We have to get a part in a Hallmark movie. They always get the perfect guy. 😘 

Tried to date? At your age it was never anything I turned off or on like a switch. I decided I was either available or not so much... but if fate happened to send “an opportunity” my way well I’ll see where it goes right? If it’s doesn’t happen well it doesn’t. Don’t be so hard on yourself! Let it happen but guard your heart.... listen to me lol. I could be your Grandpa. Ha!