I bet more that one have you have read a few Tinder horror stories online, and I bet a few of you have even lived one. Don't get me wrong it took me a while to find success, I gave up on the app more than once but it managed to keep sucking me back in, and in the end I am glad it did. I ended up meeting someone who has become a huge part of my life and someone who I now can't imagine living without. So come with me as I take you on my Tinder journey which lead to my success story, I will try to keep the soppy stuff to a minimal, I promise.



Lets start at the beginning, which happens to be at the point where I had kind of given up on relationships, lets face it my track record has not been great in the past. My basket seemed to be overflowing with bad eggs. For a while I was pretty happy on my own, doing my own thing but it gets to a point, well at least it does for me, that my own company is no longer enough. I realised as at that point I was officially in my late twenties that it was getting harder and harder to meet anyone in the 'traditional' way.

Sidenote: So here's the thing, what is the  traditional way these days. It is still going out to a bar and meeting someone once you have had a few drinks and your judgement isn't the best? How is that better than talking to someone online for a while and knowing a bit more about them before meeting them. Yes I know that there is always the chance of a catfish situation (and maybe I will tell you my catfish story someday) but its know different to meeting someone in a bar and realising they are a completely different person when they are sober. What I am really trying to say is that maybe the traditional way of meeting someone has changed.

In light of this I decided to sign up to a few dating sites, OkCupid and Plenty of Fish, you know the usual suspects, as well as the most popular Tinder. In my opinion Tinder was the best one to use, not only was it quite fun swiping through potential dates, it also eliminated the chance of receiving unwanted messages from people you would never be interested in. I remember getting some ver angry messages on the other sites from people when I decided not to respond. I really did not need that in my life. So in the end I deleted the other accounts and solely used the Tinder app. I went through phases of going on either bad or mediocre dates and deleting the app for while and then starting the process again. I never had a Tinder horror story however, they were just dates that never went anywhere.

Then came the day that I swiped right on someone and we got chatting. One of my photos on my profile was a picture of me meeting WWE wrestler Finn Balor, in fact it was this picture right here...


So that is me doing what I love, hanging out at San Diego Comic Con and being a fan girl over wrestling. So where does this fit in to my Tinder story I hear you ask? Well the first message I received from this certain someone was him getting very excited that I had met Finn Balor, which lead to a conversation about our mutual love for wrestling and the rest is is history. We talked for a long time online before we met face to face, I went on holiday for just over two weeks just after we started talking so we had to wait to meet each other. Our first meeting was the day I got back from holiday and since then I don't think we have spent more than a week apart.


That's us there, me and Gordy. We have been together about a year and a half now and this Valentines Day will be the second we have spent together. Since meeting him in September 2016 we have done so much together. We have been to Disneyland Paris...


We have share our love of wrestling almost everyday, he even let me put him in the Walls of Jericho...


And oh yeah we now live together in the perfect house for us. It seems that on paper that we are two very different people that you would never expect to end up together but for us that works. Now here comes the soppy bit... I now can't imagine my life without him, he is completely my other half and I love him more than anything. Not what you expect from swiping right on Tinder right?

Many criticise the app and highlight all its bad points forgetting that it can also make people very happy, at least it has worked out way for me. So I would advise that if you want to give it a go don't focus to much on the negative stories you hear because that is only one side of the story.

Let me know if you have ever used Tinder? Has your experience been a good or a bad one?