In the 'swipe right' world of dating today I don't think my husband Sean and I would have ever fallen in love, gotten married and had 9 kids together
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I recently saw a tweet by a young woman that read, "Do married people watch Gen Z dating and feel like they caught the last chopper out of Nam?" The short answer is yes, that’s exactly how we feel, and I’m going to explain why.
My husband Sean and I recently came to the realization that had we encountered each other on a dating app, today’s preferred method for finding love, I probably would not have "swiped right" and we never would have fallen in love, got married, and had nine beautiful kids toge
Sean and I met in the most 90s way possible — through an MTV reality show called "The Real World," where we had our lives taped for six months and packaged into 23 heavily edited episodes set to the soundtrack of "The Smashing Pumpkins" and "The Counting Crows." I was on the third season filmed in San Francisco and Sean was on the sixth season shot in a Boston firehouse. Following Sean’s season, MTV decided to send one cast member from each of the first five seasons on a spin-off travel adventure show called "Road Rules All-Stars."
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Both Sean and I were cast and the very first moment we laid eyes on each other was captured on tape. Sounds romantic enough, except it wasn’t love at first sight.
For the next month, while Sean and I traveled together with other castmates throughout the U.S. and New Zealand, Sean invested a lot of his time flirting with me. Even after the show, when we parted ways, he continued to pursue me, racking up his long-distance phone bills and finding excuses to come to L.A. where he knew he would see me.
Had Sean and I met in 2023, I’m convinced we’d never be married. The disconnected and superficial nature of modern dating culture is killing romance and marriage.
After five months, when he thought he was still stuck in the friend zone, we went out to breakfast. We spent three hours laughing and thoroughly enjoying each other’s company and at some point during that breakfast I realized that this conversation and Sean’s company was exactly what I wanted for the rest of my life.
When the waitress poured our last cup of coffee, I suddenly, and to Sean’s total shock, declared to Sean that I was going to marry him. The way he tells it, that was definitely way more than he was looking for, but we’ve been together ever since.
I found true love and a happy marriage using this 90s-style blueprint. It will work for you, too
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April 01, 2023
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