An Iowa girl couldn’t to find love on courting apps, so she positioned a Valentine’s weekend advert in The Salt Lake Tribune

Rebecca Lopez is a mom of 2 and a journey fanatic — and she or he is aware of what she desires in a romantic spouse.

Rebecca Lopez is aware of what she desires with regards to discovering a spouse: Any individual who’s “stress-resistant, aggressive, pressure, self-reliant” and needs to strengthen themselves.

“I think like I’ve an excessively company thought of what I would like in my thoughts, however those internet sites haven’t been turning in that,” Lopez stated.

After more than one failed makes an attempt with such courting apps as Tinder and others that cater in particular to these searching for companions to journey with, Lopez sought after to take issues into her owns fingers.

That’s why she made up our minds to put an advert, searching for a spouse, in The Salt Lake Tribune. (It ran at the entrance web page of Sunday’s sports activities phase.)

“You probably have a passport and also you’re prepared to get on a surfboard, you most likely have compatibility a majority of these like standards,” Lopez stated over the telephone from Iowa. “That is all in reality vital to me, and I’ve more or less put my final analysis up entrance on Tinder and it hasn’t labored out nice. I’d like to fulfill any individual who’s prepared to move somewhere with me.”

Within the advert, Lopez is looking for “a polyglot that speaks Tongan, Swahili and Lingala,” a Bantu language spoken in northern portions of the Congo. The advert additionally asks if the individual owns “an important collection of AR 670-1 compliant coyote brown army t-shirts,” a kind of blouse that meets U.S. Military rules.

Lopez is 42, going via a divorce, a mom to 2 youngsters with disabilities, and learning regulation on the College of Iowa. She doesn’t have a large number of time to swipe left or proper.

She is multilingual, grew up in a multicultural army circle of relatives, and has all the time liked to journey. Her oldsters even despatched her in a foreign country for school, and Lopez herself was once in lively responsibility within the army prior to she made up our minds to depart for regulation faculty. She estimates she has lived in 16 states and 11 other nations.

She met her husband — they’ve been separated for approximately 4 years now — in the course of the army, and the connection was once closely long-distance. On their first Valentine’s Day in combination, she purchased him journey guides to Costa Rica and Europe. They by no means took the journeys.

They’d a travel-themed marriage ceremony, however didn’t take a honeymoon as a result of their deployment schedules. Ultimately Lopez purchased tickets for the 2 of them, however they had been by no means used. She lately got here around the information books when cleansing out a room — and made up our minds to make use of the tickets for herself. She is heading to Costa Rica on spring ruin, and can move to Europe after finals.

“It’s in reality been an excessively unhappy second for me, taking those journeys on my own with those two tickets that I had purchased for us,” she stated. “Now that I’m getting divorced, I’ve a possibility to do higher to search out any individual this is possibly a greater have compatibility for me.”

She took out the advert as a result of, she stated, “to be truthful, I attempt to do one thing great for myself each and every Valentine’s Day — and I used to be having a second of frustration as a result of Tinder and those courting websites weren’t figuring out.”

She made up our minds, she stated, that “I’m mainly going to regard myself to this and simply see what occurs.”

Lopez isn’t from Utah, nor has she ever visited, however she did practice to the College of Utah’s regulation faculty — the place she was once wait-listed. Utah is one in every of her “best 3 alternatives” to are living after graduating from the College of Iowa however “she’s now not married to the speculation but.”

Salt Lake Town, she stated, is “a extremely skilled town. It’s rising, [but] now not rising in reality speedy. The town turns out modern, however in a balanced approach. It’s somewhere I will see myself transferring, doubtlessly long-term, then making it a ceaselessly house.”

It’s as a result of her pastime in Utah that she positioned the advert in The Tribune, she stated — however she added that she is open to assembly any individual anyplace.

Lopez recognizes that some folks — together with her mom — would possibly to find the enterprise bizarre, however she doesn’t thoughts.

“I think find it irresistible’s vital for folks so to snigger at themselves and now not take existence too critically,” she stated. “That is simply more or less me rebuilding my existence.”