The e-baby REVOLUTI
As more couples start to have kids meeting online, two lots of parents reveal all about their ‘e-families’
B
y 2035, more people will meet their partners via the internet than in the real world, according to a prediction. Experts say that 2037 will be the year ‘e-babies’ – kids bo to people who met online – will outnumber those born to parents who met the old-fashioned way. Here, two couple explain how they met and how they made their relationship last.
‘HE’D BEEN PLAYING TINDER ROULETT Talisa Barber, 30, had given up on dating apps as they never led to anything. Then she met Raymond, 34, a salesman, on Tinder. They now live in Crawley, West Sussex, with their son Thomas, two.
Both Raymond and I never expected to find love on Tinder, let alone marriage and kids. At the start of 2015, I had installed the app to give it a try, but ended up with lots of unsolicited pictures and dates that ended badly. I deleted the app and focused on my job as an air hostess. Then a friend convinced me to give it one last shot, so I reinstalled Tinder and started looking again. I saw Raymond’s profile, liked it, and realised we’d matched, so we started messaging. Before we met, we both created a Spotify playlist and swapped them – we figured if we liked each other’s music, then we should meet. I remember swapping music tapes in school with boyfriends and this was our online version. The day we met, I was sick and had posted a picture of myself getting ready where I was wearing pink. Raymond showed up with a huge bunch of pink flowers to prove he was attentive and had seen my picture. He also told me he’d lost a bet with his mates. He’d been
playing what he called Tinder Roulette, messagin every girl and no o was messaging bac He was trying to prove to his mates that no one was interested in him, and th I cam along On Year’s 2016, officia becam couple, and nine m later, I discovered pregnant. We got m August 2019 and T the star attraction love on Tinder sho but I could not be h
‘WE SWAPPED PLAYLISTS’
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‘I KNEW SHE WAS THE ONE’
Raymond, 34, says: I lost my Tinder bet when I met Talisa but I won a beautiful wife and son. The day I met her I knew she was The One.
Raymond and Talisa now have a son after they met on Tinder
