Sweet Jesus... how do people just sit & swipe left or right?
“a bit shocked” when Declan admitted he often dated more than one girl at once and conceded she was “more stuck in my ways than I would have thought”.
She said: “It’s like eating Gummy Bears. You think you want to put a whole bunch in your mouth, but they’re much better if they’re chewed one by one.
“Sweet Jesus help me. How do people just sit in a chair and swipe right and swipe left?”
MJ opens her heart on the show and reveals how she felt she had no choice but to move to the US after having two sons with a handsome
MJ & Declan on show
American GI while she was a student nurse in London.
Tragedy struck a few years ago when her son Hugh took his own life, but MJ says the hardest part for her is when people don’t want to talk about him as she wants to keep his memory alive.
The outgoing gran says she hasn’t given up on love and is determined to keep searching for that someone special.
She added: “Love is totally necessary for life, nothing happens in this world without love.
“It’s very difficult when you’re older. I can tell you first-hand because older men forget they have gotten old and all they see is the older woman and she’s not quite what they had in mind.
“Older men are still interested in a bit of eye candy, and I don’t fit that bill. I’m blown away by some of the things they say and I’m tempted to ask, ‘When did you last look in the mirror?’
“What I’d love is to have somebody to share my days with and to tell my stories to and go travelling with.”
Generation Dating airs on Virgin Media One on Tuesday at 10pm.
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