It was August 2006 when Robert and Priscilla first crossed paths on Catholic Match. It was nearly two years later that they really began dating. The path of letting their relationship grow gradually bore good fruit when they were wed in June 2010.
Priscilla, 35 years old, living in the Queens borough of New York and working as a contract manager for a real estate developer in Manhattan, saw the ad for Catholic Match in her parish bulletin. The devout Catholic, whose parents were from Ecuador, wanted a spouse who was equally devoted to the Church.
Robert was from nearby Long Island, and the 44-year-old was a legal assistant in the Nassau County Attorney’s Office. Born of a Belgian-born father and Belgian- American mother, he came across Priscilla’s profile on Catholic Match and was favorably impressed.
After a couple of weeks messages, phone calls and trading photos, they got together for lunch. “It was a pleasant encounter and we both kept in touch”, Priscilla recalled. It might not have been love at first sight, but there was enough there that neither was willing to trade it away for anyone else.
By April of 2008, each was starting to feel differently and they began a courtship. Robert’s virtues began to shine even more brightly for Priscilla. “I was impressed by his manners”, she told Catholic Match. “He was always a gentleman and very thoughtful and protective”.
A casual lunch date in 2006 eventually led to a marriage in the summer of 2010.
