Long Lost Brother and Sister Reunited After Matching On Tinder
Standard – An estranged brother and sister were reunited – after reportedly matching with each other on Tinder. Erik de Vries and Josephine Egberts had not seen each other since their parents split up in 1999, when Erik and his twin brother moved to Belgium with their father and Josephine remained in Holland where she had grown up with their mother. Erik had tried to track his sister down in the intervening years without success. But their paths would cross again when Erik, who had returned to Holland to study, joined dating app Tinder and swiped through looking for matches. The 24-year-old matched with a 22-year-old woman on the app in early April and the pair began tentatively chatting and flirting in direct messages. “The first time I swiped her profile I had absolutely no idea,” de Vries told Mic.com. “In our first conversation I was actually flirting with her so the conversation was very superficial.” Josephine told the Datingsite Kiezen blog: “We had no idea. It’s not surprising you provoke each other a little bit [after] a match on a dating app.” As the conversation progressed, Erik said the pair began to notice similarities in their childhoods. “In our next conversation, I started to get some clues and figured she might actually be my sister. This kind of shocked me, so I decided not to contact her for a few days,” Erik said. But his curiosity became overwhelming and within days he asked her more about her background. They realised both of their parents had been through rocky divorces, as well as having been separated from their siblings during their childhoods, and soon confirmed their suspicions about their true relationship. Within a week, the pair had arranged to meet in Tilburg, Holland for an emotional reunion. “When I saw him, it was suddenly very clear,” Josephine told Datingsite Kiezen. “It was so special to see my own blood brother again after 16 years.” Erik’s brother Maarten added: “It’s too crazy for words that you like this again comes into contact with each other, but that also makes it very special. I am very happy that I can still get to know my sister.”
Let me tell you this right now – if you are having Tinder conversations that allow you to deduce you are someone’s long lost sibling, you are using Tinder WRONG. Like how do these puzzle pieces even come about on Tinder? Talking about rocky divorces and separated siblings and shit? Get out of my face with that. That is not the shit you should be talking about. Tinder should be all “Real Talk, are you horny’s?” It should strictly reserved for “Sit on my face” and “Tits or GTFO.” Those are the conversations Tinder was invented for. Not
“Hey, whats up?”
“Nothing just trying to live my life as an adopted foster child with the ever-present inkling that my true biological siblings are somewhere out there.”
“OMG me 2!”
If Tinder results in anything but nude pics or sex, you’re a weird fucking Tinder user. Guess it makes sense that these two creeps ended up matching. I mean theres no way around it, these two wanted to fuck each other for a little bit. They looked at each other and were both attracted and thought about fucking. Thats why they matched in the first place. I bet the end up hooking up anyway. Weirdos.