Interracial Dating
Delisa & Eduardo -
Illinois, United States
Engaged February 2014
A Reason to Smile
Online dating is often a last resort for singles who just aren’t meeting the right people in the course of their everyday lives, or have made the conscious decision to skip the bar scene. Once they try it, they wonder what they were waiting for. Delisa says she was “skeptical” but ready to try something new. The man who would become her fiancé, Eduardo, was nervous about Internet personals and just hoping to meet someone “normal.”
Three months into her membership on our site, Delisa got a message from a user whose profile handle was “Comizzo.” This was Eduardo, of course. He’d been with us for a year by then. Something about the member with the enticing username (“Delicious”) really stood out to him. “I thought I would be a lucky man if she was as beautiful as her pictures,” says Eduardo.
In their initial correspondence, Delisa felt that Eduardo definitely met her basic criteria. “He was normal and not asking for naked pictures,” she laughs. “I liked the way he wanted to get to know me and how he had the same interests as me.”
Their conversations spoke to her character as well. Eduardo was impressed. “I loved the way she talked about her family,” he tells us. “Her interest in sports was awesome.”
On their first date, Delisa remembers thinking “He’s handsome!” right away. Eduardo had a similar reaction. “I thought she was very beautiful,” he says. What surprised him most about their initial meeting was “how trusting she was of me.” Delisa says that it was Eduardo’s sincerity that earned her trust. “I knew I wanted to be with him,” she says.
This date was a success by any measure. Eduardo was contemplating Date No. 2 before their first was even over! “I wanted to see her the next day,” he chuckles.
As things progressed, Eduardo learned that Delisa possessed qualities her profile barely hinted at. “Her great sense of humor” is one of them. She says his honesty was something she was relieved to discover along the way. “He was what I was looking for,” Delisa confirms.
Eduardo began concocting a plan to propose. But of course the circumstances had to be special, and he wanted to surprise her. As Delisa remembers it, “He took me to dinner with my five-year-old son and as he opened the door of the car, he got on one knee and asked for my hand in marriage!”
For Eduardo, the decision to get engaged was a no-brainer. “She is everything that I want and love,” he says. “She is the reason I live.” Delisa echoes this sentiment. “He has given me a reason to smile every day.”
While their initial date was a dream, Eduardo doesn’t want singles to think it’s always like that. “Just trust your feelings and don’t despair if the first date doesn’t work,” he says. Sometimes things take a little while to catch fire. And sometimes it’s the next person you meet whom you really belong with!
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