out of £113,000
When I signed up to online dating, I wasn’t looking for love. I’d been married twice, and after divorcing in 2018, I was happy being single. I had a good job in business development, a three-bed house in Brownhills, West Midlands, a nice car and £20,000 in savings. I’d never had kids, but I was close to my mum Karen, 69, and my sister Sonia, 48 – and my dog Sam was my best friend.
But after the pandemic hit in March 2020, I found lockdown to be lonely, so I joined a dating site so that I could meet and talk to new people.
On 1 January 2021, I got chatting to a man called Stephen. Originally from Spain,
