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Fodder for fence-sitters, part three. Are you too old for online dating?


You're never too old for true love!

If you've thought about online dating and thought, "Oh no, I'm too old to do that!" then I have a story for you.

Meet Ruth and Leonard, octogenarians who found love on match.com.  Their story was recently featured on Good Morning America:

http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=6989018

Their story was also featured as part of a Washington Post article on older women in the online dating scene:

Newlyweds Ruth Johnson-Mullis, 85, and Leonard M. Mullis, nearly 87, of Littleton, Colo., met on Match.com. Both had been widowed. Each said they weren't interested in marriage but wanted "someone to have dinner with," Johnson-Mullis says. She had a hard time at first with online dating: She e-mailed eight or 10 men and never got a reply. They were all looking for women in their 60s and 70s, she says. "Who wants an 84-year-old woman?"

"I did," Mullis says. He had to drive up into the mountains to meet her. There were no restaurants, so she made him lunch. "From that point on, I was a dead duck," he says. After a three-month courtship, they married. "At my age, I don't believe in long engagements. No use fooling around."

So get out there, folks!  It's never too late to have a relationship to brighten your life.

 

About E:  E is so happy that she found this story via MatchDotCom's Twitter today since it fits perfectly in the fence-sitter series!  Want to follow E on Twitter?
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An online dating veteran since 1999, E. Foley has seen it all! Her company, Online Dating Profiler, provides online dating writing and coaching...

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