By Miguel Velázquez, MWN
Amid the lockdowns imposed around the world due to the COVID-19 pandemic, dating apps have been on the rise. As Tinder has explained in its 2020 annual summary, novel coronavirus ‘got us to open up’:
“The combination of being stuck at home and the fact that we were all going through the same thing at the same time led folks on Tinder to get chattier than ever. Globally, April 5 was the peak of this chattiness: on that day Tinder members sent an average of 52% more messages vs. the start of lockdowns in early March.”
Gleyce Hanna, who met her soulmate thanks to the popular app, told Metro that she decided to take advantage of Tinder during quarantine, as she was not able to leave the house to spend time talking to new people.
“I went through the profiles and I saw a picture of a Chinese boy with the description saying that he was looking for someone just to teach him Portuguese and in return he would teach English or Chinese. As I don’t know how to speak English, I became interested in learning a new language in those days that I would have nothing to do.”
Both started talking, he used the translator and the conversations were very difficult to understand.
“He asked if I was interested in working at the same company as him, and I was interested. I went for an interview, he saw me and just said “hi.” Then he handed me water and didn’t speak to me anymore.”
The crush happened shortly after.
“Next month he called me asking me to help him at the supermarket, because he didn’t understand Portuguese. We chatted in the car for a long time and he came to kiss me. At first I didn’t want it to happen, but he tried for a second time and I kissed him back. I didn’t know that in Chinese culture talking every day means dating, there is no “only one date” thing.”
Their love story was about to take an unexpected turn.
“One month later he was at my home to meet my mother. I still didn’t want to date anyone… He had lunch at home and at night his parents called from China to meet me and accept me into the family to get married… I was in panic, but I kept thinking that that madness would end and everything would return to normal. That was in April. On Aug. 7 he asked me to marry him and I accepted, still not believing that it was happening,” said Hanna.
Suddenly, Hanna and her partner’s family was growing:
“I got a bunny from him as a gift, we called it Isabela. But then we found out it was male, so we changed it to Alvim. I got married in São Paulo, my honeymoon was in Rio de Janeiro. Then I lived at my mother’s house for a month, while he was in another apartment. On Dec. 23, our furniture arrived and we moved to our place. Him, me and Alvim the rabbit.”
Hanna concluded: “I haven’t gotten used to the culture yet, in June or July I’m going to China to have the Chinese wedding. According to him, we started dating the same day we met.
“This is the story of how I met my husband on Tinder.”
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