After spending many months alone with pretty much no one to talk to outside of the loveless marriage, her family and a few shallow friends. Joseph Always had surface conversations but nothing ever serious. Losing his college friends due to becoming, an adult, having a career, getting married with a kid, didn't leave time to make new friends.
Joseph downloaded Kik to join in group chat with new people. Maybe find some friends to chat with. Venturing in nerd and geek chats, he was able to find like-minded people. Discovered some new nerdy books or shows he will watch eventually.
Moving from chat room to chat room, finding someone to chat with but nothing serious. He was getting in the same rut, never finding someone with similar tastes or views.
Joseph was feeling more and more a loner just like in the real world. Invited to a group chat he was leading a group chat and this woman caught his attention. Nothing special at first, he had talked to women before and usually they were nice but never kept his attention or they flocked to another person when he bored them with his nerdom. However, Ginny caught his eye, something in her attitude, the attention she was giving him. He would make a joke, she laughed. She would quote a movie and he would finish or reference the movie. He would make a meta joke and she would get it. They exchanged info and they continued to talk in private.
Learning more and more about each other. Both in loveless marriages. Both with kids. Both finding they were attracted to each other mentally and physically. Talking day and night, both feeling that their work lives were suffering but they felt like a couple of teens in love for the first time. They knew they were. They fought it at first because of the physical distance between them. Joseph from California and Ginny in Indiana.
Joseph had only ever loved one woman and then another with the birth of his daughter. However, this sassy red head had stolen his heart and for the first time in years, he was happy. Ginny had told him the same. Her first marriage didn't end well and there was no love, she was young and confused. He second marriage to a man that treated her right and she loved him for that. Now Joseph was all she thought about.