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"TODAY" Show's Bobbie Thomas Mourns Death of Husband
Bobbie Thomas is backmost connected the dating country aft the tragic passing of her hubby Michael Marion.
The Today amusement benignant contributor precocious got candid astir her determination to try looking for emotion again more than 2 years aft Marion died successful December 2020 at the property of 42 pursuing a agelong wellness battle.
"I similar sharing my beingness with radical due to the fact that it makes each the moments much special," Thomas wrote successful an April 7 introduction of her Today.com bid "Bobby's Dating Diary." "So yes, I anticipation determination is idiosyncratic retired determination who is like-minded and who I tin stock my beingness with. It's scary to deliberation astir each the challenges and checklists, but I'm learning to spot myself, and I'm consenting to measurement retired of my comfortableness zone."
After years of grieving her precocious spouse, Thomas revealed she yet joined dating apps for the archetypal clip connected March 6 with the assistance of her pal, Tinder CMO Melissa Hobley.
Calling the acquisition "overwhelming," the 48-year-old successfully acceptable up profiles connected Tinder, Hinge and The League earlier landing her archetypal day extracurricular of the online dating world.
"After each my efforts figuring retired the dating apps, my archetypal day was…not from the apps," she explained. "My person acceptable maine up."
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Despite feeling "anxious" astir the rendezvous, Thomas, who is ma to her 7-year-old lad Miles with Marion, met her unsighted day astatine an NYC eatery connected March 28.
"He was benignant and precisely what I had asked for," she wrote. "Polite to the staff, lukewarm and casual to speech to. It was beauteous to person an big speech and a interruption from routine, but I couldn't assistance feeling disconnected. As I sat crossed from him and helium shared things astir his life, I heard what helium was saying but the vigor was louder. He seemed truthful acceptable to program a wedding, commencement a family—that archetypal section of big life, 1 that feels agelong agone for me."
And the adjacent day, Thomas admitted she didn't consciousness large astir the meet-up.
"Despite thing being wrong, contiguous I woke up feeling overwhelmingly sad," she explained. "I'm missing Michael much than ever, and I'm feeling aggravated that helium doesn't get to beryllium portion of my 2nd chapter. I'm besides reasoning astir someone—not the day from past night."
The antheral successful question? A widower and chap genitor she and Miles were introduced to by a communal friend.
"Although the absorption was connected introducing the kids, determination was an instant comfortableness with idiosyncratic I had conscionable met minutes before," Thomas revealed. "It was thing I hadn't been capable to do: absorption connected the now, and not what had happened. But it wasn't a date…was it? I can't halt reasoning astir the connection, and present I'm secretly hoping for a one-on-one java with him—but I'm not definite however oregon if that would ever happen."
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