‘I MARRIED SOMEONE TRULY SPECIAL’
Jane Albert, 65, married Hugh, 61, in Cornwall in May 2022. They live together in London.
When my first marriage ended after 38 years, in 2013, it felt as if a huge weight had been lifted from my shoulders. We’d grown apart and things hadn’t been great for a long time. I’d married so young, and I needed to discover who I was again. It was very exciting to have that freedom – but there were lonely moments too.
Around a year after my divorce, in April 2016, I felt ready to meet someone, so I decided to give online dating a go. I hadn’t dated since I was a teenager and, of course, the landscape had changed dramatically since then. I started to keep a diary as I went along, because it was such a fascinating experience; one photo I came across on a dating site was a man with no teeth and a
