An elderly couple has tied the knot after falling madly in love with one another when they met online during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Per Oprah Daily, Jim Adams, 78, and Audrey Coutts, 79, matched on the dating site Silver Singles late last year, months after coronavirus began spreading throughout the world.
"I came across Audrey on my first go-through on the site," Adams recalled to the outlet. "It only took a day to find her. After that, I didn't need it anymore. I said, 'Well, I have to meet this person who's as crazy as I am.' "
Silver Singles has a compatibility meter that calculates how well matched a particular couple is based on their shared interests. From their individual answers, the love calculator deemed their compatibility to be at 94 percent.
Coutts, whose previous marriage ended 33 years ago, told Oprah Daily that she had been using this particular dating site for years but had never been lucky enough to match with someone she saw any potential with - until she stumbled across Adams' profile.
"We just fit. We clicked," Coutts said. "We still don't know why it wasn't 100."
It was just three months after they first met that Adams, whose wife passed away in 2017, asked Coutts to move in with him. He then asked her to become his wife earlier this year in May.
"It seemed like I'd been living with her for years," Adams said. "I'd be sitting here thinking about something, then she would say it. I would start to say something, and she'd say the same thing almost at the same time."
"We were connected," he added. "So what were we waiting for? The only reason it took me so long to propose was I had to find the ring, and that took two months."
"We live on a quiet street, and we have a quiet life," the doting husband added of their life together. "We can spend days on end doing very little and when it's raining, we don't even need to go out. I paint, I'll rub Audrey's feet, and go back and paint some more."
