Dear Catholic Singles,
In July of 2002, I enrolled in Catholic Singles, based on the advice of my cousin, who had enjoyed being a site member. I was pretty disinterested and noncommital about the idea of online dating, having never done it before this enrollment. I had been on the site about two weeks when I received a funny and interesting email. Seamus had been on CatholicSingles.com for a short while and had decided I would be his last attempt at online dating, which he had started to find tiresome due to other secular singles websites. I wrote him back, somewhat interested but not too hopeful.
However, Seamus was the first person who contacted me and the last. Seamus and I had many things in common; we knew this just from our emails: the same sense of humor, value of faith and family, and a common Irish heritage. We went on our first date on July 28, 2002. Neither one of us wanted the date – dinner and a walk – to end. We were both instantly comfortable with each other. We spent the next two years in a long distance relationship – about three hours apart within upstate New York. This was challenging but drew us even closer together in many ways. We spent precious time together enjoying nature in the Adirondacks, museums in the city and just getting to know one another.
On December 4, 2004, Seamus proposed at our favorite nature preserve. We were married on July 30, 2005 in our beautiful historic church in Albany. Bagpipers led us out of the Mass and into our life together.
CatholicSingles.com offered an array of opportunities for Seamus and I, but ultimately, it led to the best opportunity of both our lives: to marry someone who held Catholic moral beliefs and values in the same esteem AND who was a fun, loving, humourous and gentle person. We are extremely grateful for that. I don’t think either one of us ever really thought we would marry someone from “the Internet” but God obviously had other plans for us!! Thank you, Catholic Singles. Someday, we will tell our grandchildren about our time – however limited! – on Catholic Singles! God is good.
Kira and Seamus
