Love Story of a Woman Near 60 (6) - We Are Teenagers

I am a woman near 60, divorced, and a cancer survivor. After trying two matchmaking apps, I finally met someone—that is K-kun.

K-kun, who is two years younger than me and also divorced, is shy, serious, pure, kind, and clumsy.

Because of that clumsiness, I would get anxious, irritated, and uneasy all on my own...

We couldn't meet up, and my mental state hit rock bottom, but I was still so afraid of being disliked that I kept everything I wanted to say bottled up.

The uneasiness grew even more, and I reached a point where I thought I might actually fall ill.

At that point, half prepared to be disliked, but the other half still hoping not to be, I tried to convey my pain to K-kun while wrapping it in soft language...

But we couldn't possibly understand each other just by exchanging text, so I decided we should see each other face-to-face.

It was only for a short time, but I was able to meet him in person and share my feelings, and now we are spending such peaceful time together♪

Looking back, our interactions were just like teenagers, and it's quite embarrassing, but here is the article I posted last time. ⤵︎⤵︎⤵︎

On that day, we met and talked in the car first.

In the end, I realized that I had been anxious and depressed all on my own because of his natural airheadedness and clumsiness (though I think I knew that already), and he told me he would be more careful from now on.

After making up (though we didn't really fight), we ate hamburgers at McDonald's (don't ask me why that happened, lol), and then went on our usual drive date.

Outside the window was a magical sunset with a gradation of red and blue.

After that, we were able to watch the hazy, ephemeral full moon together.

I felt like I was going to cry.

“You two should get along well.”

I felt like someone said that to me...

Then, without saying much, he took me to a certain place.

It was early in the season, and we couldn't see many fireflies last time.

It seems he had been researching various things since then, and I learned that he had even gone out in the rain to scout a place where we could see them, different from before.

Unfortunately, it was in a residential area with no place to park the car, so we couldn't see the fireflies in the end, but I was just so happy that he had that intention.

There are still many things we don't know about each other, and K-kun asked me to tell him more about my work.

From that conversation, I came out to him about how, after a two-year recovery period, I finally got a job, but then developed symptoms like depression again and had to quit after just one month.

K-kun nodded gently and listened to it all seriously.

Then, he told me about how he had collapsed when he was in his 30s.

The diagnosis was “meningitis”.

He lost consciousness and was hospitalized for quite a long time, and hearing that made me want to cry again...

I truly thought, “Thank you for being alive.”

At that moment, I was convinced that I really do love K-kun.

At our age, both having experienced divorce and meeting by chance, I believe this is truly fate.

One month since we started dating.

I learned that rather than holding back what you can't say and feeling uneasy, a relationship where you can say anything to each other is the best.

If that makes one of us dislike the other, then it just wasn't meant to be.

That's all there is to it.

A drive date of just over two hours.

It was just a date where we ate McDonald's and went for a drive, but I was happier than I had ever been on any date before.

I poured out everything in my heart, and he accepted it all.

Far from being disliked, I realized he likes me even more than I thought.

I hope my feelings are getting across to him too...

Since that happened, K-kun has started sending me heart emojis and stickers on LINE often. Lol

Seeing them makes me smile, and I think to myself, how simple am I?

Our current LINE exchanges are like middle schoolers who just started dating. Lol

Even though I was so anxious, I'm fine even if we can't meet now.

I think it's because we were able to confirm each other's feelings.

A love that started at 57 and 55.

A super late-blooming love.

From the world's perspective, it might be a little (or quite?) gross. Lol

But our feelings are both teenagers♡

We will probably fight again, but if we can learn to enjoy even that, maybe that is what true love is.



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Thank you for reading until the end♪

See you again. Tomoka (❛ ∇ ❛✿)