Brian and I met on Match. (For those that may not know, it is a dating site.) At the time, just before Brian messaged me, we were both at the point of giving up out of shear disgust over the awful people we were meeting! He messaged me, I took a look at his profile, and thought, wow, a guy that actually put effort into it, and it made me laugh! So, I gave him my phone number, and on the first phone conversation, we talked for 3 hours! Second phone call we talked for 4 hours! It went on from there, we did not want to get off the phone because we were having so much fun talking and laughing! Right out of the gate, we clicked mentally and intellectually. It mean't a lot to me that he is a veteran (36 year career in the army), because many of the men in my family are/were veterans including my Dad, my brother and my uncles. In addition to that, we have sooo much in common, and it is things that are highly unlikely, such as we both are horse people, have owned and rode horses for many years. We both live in the country and have a lot of acreage. We are both total Sci Fi geeks, all things sci fi such as Star Wars, Star Trek, Battestar Galactica, etc. We both enjoy dressing up in costumes. We both own guns and believe in the right to own them! Our political views are very similar. We both had very successful careers and are now happily retired! We both love to dance! We get along so well that the relationship is effortless, we "get" each other. The physical connection...just WOW!! In fact, aside from the physical, we have this connection that just cannot be explained but we both realized that it is special. I can go on, but it all came down to, clearly we were made for each other! It is really a crazy thing to happen at our age, but I guess better late than never, lol!