Love is Blind and Can’t Count

When are we too old to fall in love? Dr. Joan Chadbourne learned “NEVER!”

Never marry the one you can live with, marry the one you cannot live without.~unknown

Dr. Joan Chadbourne’s story proves that we are never too old to fall in love. Cupid shot her and her future husband Chad through the heart in a coffee shop when Joan was 72, and Chad was 69 years young. Love is not only blind; it cannot count.

However, age cannot save us from ourselves. Sometimes the most significant deterrent we must face is one that is impossible to avoid-ourselves. Joan’s story is about how she got out of her own way in order to embrace love.

I read Joan’s fantastic love story in the book Chaos to Clarity: Sacred Stories of Transformational Change and immediately invited her to be a guest on my Video Podcast The Kat Kanavos Show.

The lesson I took away from her story was how Joan learned how important it is to not self-sabotage when it comes to positive change in her life. Change at any age can be frightening. However, as we become older and set in our ways, an excuse not to embrace change can become a phobia.

Transformational change can make room for love to grow in our hearts.

When years of life and experience have made us self-sufficient and independent, we…