Years ago in my bachelor period after my first relationship I decided to try internet-dating. Smart phones did not exist yet so there were no apps like Tinder or whatever people use these days. I applied to the two largest dating websites at that time in The Netherlands, Lexa and Relatieplanet. Not so much to look for a steady relationship but to hang out, do some things together etc. I made a nice, bit quirky profile, uploaded some of my better pictures and to my amazement (I am certainly no Brad Pitt) I now and then got a reply from some women. Mostly we would mail for a time and if that went well we would go on a date.
One day I got a message from a cute red-headed woman, let’s call her Anne, but strangely she only had pictures of her upper half. In my profile I said that I had been to Egypt and apparently she also had visited that country. The first week I think we mailed each day, Anne was fun to write with and we really opened up to each other. Until I got a serious sounding mail from her. “Uhmm, I have to say I really like you, but I must admit I have a secret.. Perhaps I should have said it at the beginning but it already scared away some men. You know, I am handicapped.. I am in a wheelchair because I have a deformity of my legs.” I was taken aback for a short moment, that is why Anne only had photos of her upper half, but almost immediately thought like, what does it matter?