Three years after losing her husband to cancer in 2018, Louise moved to Cupar in Fife for a fresh start. “I’d been living in Glasgow but had so many memories of my husband there. I wanted to be by the sea on the east coast, where the weather is better.” She found work as a religious guidance counsellor in Perth and quickly fell in love with the peaceful, rural community. “The only thing missing in my life was music,” she says. “I’ve always loved singing, so I joined a community choir in the spring of 2022.”
She soon met Paul, who was also in the choir. “I’m an alto and he’s a bass but we were sitting very close to each other in practice.” Paul admits he had “the hots” for Louise from day one, but was too shy to approach her. He had lived in the area for 28 years and been divorced for 15 years, with no expectations of meeting a new partner. “I was setting myself up for a single retirement,” he says. “I was working at a local college teaching green-keeping – how to look after golf courses. I’d given up on the idea of love.”
