“Unfortunately, it was an experience that she had already gone through. Tasha showed up for me in a way that I didn’t expect for her to and she really didn’t have to. The way she looked after me and the way she interacted with my family it was clear that this is someone I’d want to spend the rest of my life with.” “While we had only known each other for a short amount of time, it tied us closer together,” he says. He felt the same, noting that Natasha’s support of him in one of the most difficult times in his life, the loss of his father during the pandemic, proved to him that she was the one. Michael’s patience, understanding and ability to love my authentic self, flaws and all, made me realize that I found my forever person.” “We spent months quarantined in my small one-bedroom apartment, and instead of getting sick of each other, we grew closer together. “During the pandemic, amidst all of the turmoil and uncertainty in the world, Michael proved to be my safe haven,” she says, as the two crashed together in Brooklyn. A year later, amid the pandemic, their bond was solidified by adversity. Soon after, Michael, a senior business development manager at fintech company Marqeta, ended up making quite the impression on Natasha. “At a friend’s birthday party, my friend’s wife decided to give me a tutorial and show me how to use the app and she swiped right on Michael.” “I had no idea how to even navigate the app,” she tells ESSENCE.īut with some help, she would finally understand the dating app, and make a life-changing connection through it. When Natasha, a VP of marketing at BET Networks, first decided to partake in the online dating scene, joining Bumble in May 2019, she was skeptical about how it worked - and admittedly a bit confused.

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