Given Up on Love? This Story Will Change Your Mind–With Tina Eliana

In this episode of Shot At Love, Kerry Brett sits down with Tina Eliana, whose love story defies every metric — starting with the fact that it should never have happened at all. On January 21, 2012, JD logged onto Plenty of Fish to delete his profile. He ran one last search, expanding his radius to 50 miles. Tina lived 200 miles away. She was one of the first profiles that appeared. What followed was a marriage tested almost immediately by the unthinkable. Tina opens up about the trauma behind the scenes when they met: a second divorce, threats to her life, and the devastating decision to dissolve the adoption of her two sons after nine years — a choice made to keep everyone safe, and one that grieved like a death. She shares the nervous breakdown that mimicked MS symptoms, the depression so heavy that showering felt impossible, and the 40th birthday she spent sleeping in a vehicle at a truck stop, wondering if her life still had meaning. Then she shares what JD did next — and ho...