Dr. Trimm Featured On Oprah Magazine Website
Bermudian Dr. Cindy Trimm has been featured on the Oprah magazine website, as part of their ‘Unstoppable Love’ series.
The Oprah Magazine website said, “Cindy’s first entrepreneurial venture was a business at 8-years-old running errands for neighbors. From there, she put herself through college and went on to claim a seat in the Bermuda Senate by the time she was 30-years-old.
“As the years passed, Cindy’s friends told her that her ambitions and success might be intimidating to potential romantic partners, but Cindy knew that anyone she was going to marry would need to be confident enough in who he was that he wouldn’t be threatened by her accomplishments.
“Even though she was sure she would be married by thirty, Cindy entered into her forties not having found a life partner. “I was satisfied when I was single,” she explains, adding, “I was not prepared to compromise just to meet this requirement that you grow up, you get educated, you settle down, get married, and have 2.5 children.” Instead of worrying about finding the perfect man, Cindy began to set her own expectations of a happy and fulfilling life.
“Fast forward to 2016, and Cindy, then age 58, got a call from a former colleague of hers, Russell Tomlinson. “I had a feeling that he was going to ask me on a date and the answer was absolutely no,” says Cindy, who made it a policy to never mix romantic and professional relationships. Despite her best intentions, Cindy found herself having deep and meaningful conversations with Russell. She finally agreed to a date. Then another, and then another.
“One of Cindy’s biggest concerns about getting married was that it would interfere with her work goals and busy professional life. “I wanted to marry a person, not a project,” Cindy says. So when Russell proposed to Cindy, he chose a moment where she was completely in her element: on stage in front of hundreds of people at a conference in Bermuda. It was an easy yes. “People marry for different reasons,” says Cindy, but, “I wanted to grow old with this person.”
You can read the full story here on Oprah Magazine.
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