An impressive number of our members have found their life partners through Concerned Singles. Over the years, we've received many engagement and wedding announcements and notes and letters from delighted members who want to share with us their joy at having found the person they had long been seeking. We've even gone to A Concerned Singles Wedding! Here are a few samples.

"Rodelinde and Jack,
First, let me congratulate you two on meeting and being happy because of Concerned Singles! I have thought many times of sending you mail to say thank you, but kept putting it off. Now, today I came across your web site and wow, it brought back memories! In 1989 I posted in your newsletter with reservations. Mark was on your male list but I didn't write to him because he was younger than I was. But, he wrote to me, and we wrote back and forth and talked by phone between West Virginia and Pennsylvania. Then we met and it was all over. That was eleven years ago and we are still together, still in love, and got married in 1994. It has been cute over the years when people ask how we met, to tell them through an introduction agency called *Concerned Singles* ... they sort of look at us odd. But we are pleased, neither of us needed a second membership and we don't plan on needing your services again ... only because we don't foresee us not being together. Mark moved here to Pennsylvania and we are living here for now, but in the future we see us moving farther west.
I never was able to thank you for helping me find the love of my life. So, now I want to do that. Thank you so very much. Mark feels the same way but he just sort of grins at me. I have many friends who are finally saying, yes, I think they will stay together. I had two very traumatic marriages before I met Mark, and so my friends were skeptical that I would be able to pick one that would work. Well, we picked each other from the list and it was a winner!
That is all; I will stop gushing now, just wanted to say thank you, and encourage anyone who is not sure they want to try this, to jump in and get wet ... life is only so long and don't waste it worrying about issues that might not happen. Good luck in your future and Mark and I are very grateful for your organization!
Still in love, "
Mark and Kathy (in Pennsylvania)

"Dear Rodelinde, After being a Concerned Single for over a year and a half, I finally have a success story that I would like to share with you.
In February I wrote to you: 'Just thought you might be interested to know that I have decided to renew, [although] after corresponding with a man from Indiana for over seven months, I am starting to give up hope that he will ever take the next step of visiting. He's a great guy, but seems to have a fear of meeting personally. Oh, well, the seven months of e-mails were worth my membership fee so I'll just try again and hope for someone a little braver!'
You wrote back: 'Thanks for letting us know your story. That gent in Indiana is clearly not worthy of you. You sound like a very positive person. Your Braveheart is out there somewhere!'
Well, I am happy to report that you were right, and that I finally found him. In early August, Bill P., from New York, joined Concerned Singles and wrote to me and a number of other CS women. In mid-August he e-mailed you and told you that he had connected with a person from CS. That person was me and I couldn't be happier. We're 500 miles apart, but we met halfway over Labor Day weekend and had a wonderful time. I am now planning to visit him for a couple weeks in October. If things keep going in the same direction, we are already talking about me moving out with him next summer. We are both amazed that we found each other and that we immediately clicked. I really feel like he is the kind of man I have always been looking for and knew had to be out there somewhere, but I was giving up hope of ever finding him.
Feel free to share my story with other members because I would like people to know that sometimes it takes a lot of patience and a long time to find the right person. I used to get discouraged reading other people's success stories because other people seemed to be finding the right person immediately and I kept finding a lot of men who were not at all what I was looking for. But Bill was certainly more than worth the long wait." J.Z., near Pittsburgh, PA

"Dear Rodelinde, there will be no need to renew this time because I've found a good Concerned Singles match, someone who is able and willing to move as well as someone who has been as persistent as I am. K.D. and I have been thinking that when she arrives here in Albany, we might drive over to express our thanks. K.D. is a retiring physician from California. She's already in the process of selling her practice and expects to be here in Albany probably in early November. I've been flying to California for over a year now, and she here when she can get away from the office. Fortunately, my consulting allows me a bit more flexibility in scheduling. So, thank you so much! Persistence pays off! And K.D. is as wonderful a match as I could ask for. I'll be in touch when she arrives." B.B., Albany, NY

"Happy to report that I've met a great guy and we've been "going out" since January. As it happens, I met him through CS and he was just here in Montana visiting for a couple of weeks - it's been eight months already! I'll be back in NY in September and we'll go from there. If at first you don't succeed....try try again...!! Hooray for CS!!" C.W., Brooklyn, NY

"Dear Rodelinde, Wow, thank you, thank you!!!! I have met the man of my dreams through you. Will send info on wedding celebration; hope you can come. So please take my name off the list. Forever grateful and spreading the word about your wonderful organization like crazy." L.B., Tokyo, Japan

"Dear Rodelinde, L. has told me she has invited you to our wedding celebration July 16. I hope you can attend. Yes, she is the lady in Japan and I am the guy in New Hampshire. Now that is a long-distance connection." B.F., Salem, NH

"I have met a wonderful woman and am no longer seeking new contacts. If this ever changes (God, I hope not!), I will let you know. Thanks for providing an excellent service." M.K., LaFarge, WI

"I have gained much by my membership. Almost every contact has put me in touch with a vivid, intelligent, kind, and socially aware woman. One of these has brought me a wonderful, enduring relationship." D.K., Old Saybrook, CT

"Thank you for the notice. I'm happy to say that I met someone and we are living together, so I don't need your service. But I do appreciate the excellent customer service I received and I want to commend you on the site." T.C., Brooklyn, NY

"It worked! Thank you for your service. I met a great guy through it. I'm a lawyer, and he's an engineer, and we're both very concerned about social justice. We got married on Valentine's Day!!!!! I can't tell you how happy we are. He was in far northern California, and I was in Silicon Valley, and without your service there is no way in the world we could ever have met. Keep up the good work." R.Y., Sacramento, CA

"A friend has recommended your organization and has met a wonderful partner through your newsletter." E.J., Bristol, TN

"Please cancel my membership. I am no longer single. OK, yes, I am seeing someone I met through CS. So, with appreciation and thanks...." M.D., Staten Island, NY

"I was F-2674 and my husband was M-2604. We met through your organization in January 1991, moved in together in November of '91, were married in August of '93, and gave birth to boy/girl twins last February, 1998. Wow! Look what you've contributed to! We've saved your newsletters with our self-descriptive statements, and his reply letter to my statement, in our wedding album, and people are always amazed and charmed by our story of how we met! Now that the twins are napping and I found your web site in the Nation, where I first saw your ad, I thought I could take the time to send you a note and say thank you for running such a great organization and enriching my life so much. Keep up the good work!" L.K. (and D.G. and the twins), New Haven, CT

"Dear CS, Could you please remove my ad from the web site? Your organization worked for me. I met a very nice person right away." M.F., Shutesbury, MA

"I am not renewing since meeting the perfect lady through Concerned Singles. I had joined several other groups, but yours gave me the lady I've been looking for." D.W., Longview, WA

"I just wanted to let you folks know that I found a really wonderful relationship through Concerned Singles. This is beyond both our wildest dreams and I'd like to thank you for being the conduit for this terrific man coming into my life." J.R., Denver, CO

"I am thrilled and amazed to have met a wonderful man through Concerned Singles already." S. F., Laconia, NH

"Your group is great. My request to remove my self-description in no way reflects dissatisfaction: I fell in love with the first man from whom I received a letter." I.O., Albuquerque, NM

"We (K.B. and M.G.) are long overdue in writing to you, but on this second anniversary of our meeting we thought we should share our success story with you. Eight months ago we happily wed. K. joined Concerned Singles in October 1995, but she promised herself not to date anyone outside of the New York area. In March 1996, M.'s ad appeared. K. was excited about this "playful potter and contemplative Christian," but he was IN OHIO! ... After two months of letters and extended conversations on the phone, M. visited K. in New York City for the Fourth of July weekend. It soon became apparent that we were very compatible. (We now celebrate our Interdependence Day.) The challenge soon arose: How to get our lives together? We visited once a month for the next year, and on Easter 1997, M. proposed marriage. M. [found work] ... here on Long Island, so we could live together and K. could commute to her job in New York City. On October 25, 1997, we were married in New York. After eight months of marriage we are even more deeply in love with each other. We are both thankful that we opened ourselves to new possibilities and took a risk by joining Concerned Singles. Our advice to others is "be willing to go beyond your limits (or open yourself to something completely new). You never know what you might be missing." We continue to marvel how either one of us would have ever found each other if it hadn't been for Concerned Singles ... With deepest gratitude," K.B. & M.G., Long Island City, NY

"I learned about Concerned Singles from a former member who has married a man she met through Concerned Singles." R.M., Brooklyn, NY

"Would you please remove my description from your listing. With your help I've made contact with a Concerned Singles woman and we have become involved in a romantic relationship." H.D., Jackson, WY

"This is really a late report but one we want to share. We both are of a 'certain age' and both had lost our spouses of 40+ years. We happened to live within 30 minutes drive of one another but had never met although we discovered that we had a number of friends in common. We corresponded in 1993, became involved a few months later and married in 1996. As far as we are concerned it is a perfect marriage where we find that we are as perfectly matched as we could imagine. The thing which we find so incredible is that we both have strong personalities and preferences and believed that it would be very difficult to find someone who would 'put up with us.' We also insisted that our intended mate get along with our children and families. In spite of age and seemingly insurmountable odds we found one another, fell in love and are more happy and content than we could have ever imagined. Our advice to all is to take a few risks because the rewards can be remarkable. Thank you Concerned Singles!" R.L. & D.S., St. Louis, MO

"I am in a happy relationship with someone I met through Concerned Singles. Thank You! I won't be renewing my membership." C.R., Wells, ME

"Please send me a sample newsletter and info package ASAP! My neighbor actually met her husband a few years ago through your organization and we are really excited to sign up a few of our choice singles. We are in the Redwoods, 200 miles north of San Francisco -- a bunch of old political, eco, homesteader, yoga, intellectual, etc." M.C., Redway, CA

"My husband and I met through your service. Without Concerned Singles there is virtually no chance we would have been introduced to each other." S.W., Milwaukee, WI

"I joined Concerned Singles in search of a very special person, a twin flame and best friend. That search ended with a letter written to me by a woman in Maine, which began simply 'Dear Virginia Man...' In her letter she stated that she was wary of long-distance relationships -- fantasies do tend to build up. 'However,' she continued, 'if there's one thing I have learned in life it's that is not wise to make assumptions.' We met soon afterwards and the connection was more than I could have ever imagined." M.L., Fredericksburg, VA

"I am writing to express my appreciation for your contribution to a very happy development in my life. I have fallen in love with a person I met through your service. I certainly recommend Concerned Singles to those who are single and looking." B.R., New York, NY

"James and I both had memberships in Concerned Singles. I sensed something special. Six-and-a-half round trips (and four years) later we are finally settled in together. We are making payments on our wedding rings and planning to be married before the end of the year. We are working hard to get our environmental business going." S.L., Davenport, IA

"Through Concerned Singles I have met someone who shares my perspective and values. We have told dozens of people about Concerned Singles." A.M., Bloomfield, NJ

"Thank you for helping two lonely liberals find each other. I have maintained memberships in a number of services similar to yours. Through them I've met several men and corresponded with dozens more. The men I've connected with through Concerned Singles have been more intelligent, more interesting, and, I would say, more attractive. I'm very grateful for your service, and hope my story will be of encouragement to others seeking the man of their dreams." N.A., Tallahassee, FL

"We want you to know that you can add another marriage to your list. Norman (from Milwaukee) and I were married in July. We feel like our meeting was a one-in-a-million chance as it is, and would never have happened at all without Concerned Singles." C.E., Phoenix, AZ

"Linda and I lived on opposite coasts when Concerned Singles introduced us. We don't any longer. Thank you for showing us that caring, sharing relationships have not gone out of style, and that even geography doesn't have to matter if you don't want it to." J.H., Los Angeles, CA

"I am making longterm plans with someone I met with your help. So thank whoever had the bright idea of starting the organization." J.W., PEI, Canada

"I'm writing to thank you for a real matchmaking coup on your part. We couldn't be happier. We probably never would have met without your service." L.G., Tuscaloosa, AL

"I never dreamed I would find the love of my life this way; I joined the Newsletter with a great deal of skepticism and humor. I am delighted with the relationship that developed and will profoundly affect the rest of my life." R.B., Carbondale, IL

"You can add another happy result to your already impressive score."M.C., Anderson, SC

"I sent out several letters on receiving the female listing; the first person to whom I wrote called me immediately upon receiving my letter, and we talked for over an hour. We have been in daily phone contact since. We will be meeting in person for several days next month and are both convinced that we are just right for each other. Thank you for the service you provide. This one friendship, whether or not it works out romantically, is worth much more than the price of my membership." C.M., Austin, TX

"I am no longer interested in receiving letters from members. I have met someone through your Newsletter. Thank you!" M.P., Jacksonville, FL

"Please cancel -- you've worked!! Thanks, thanks, thanks!" R.A., Atlanta, GA

"You may remove me from your listings. I have met a wonderful man through your organization. We have established the partnership that we were both seeking. Thank you for your help." S.C., Greensboro, NC

"I recently met someone through Concerned Singles with whom I am now pursuing a serious and promising relationship. I enjoyed being in the group, if only for a short while. I was very impressed by the quality of letters I received." W.W., Pittsburgh, PA