Secondary school teacher Sharon Hawkins is often mistaken for Perry Hopstein's mum but the loved-up couple plan to marry this year after they met through the dating app last January<br /><br />Sharon Hawkins, 50, matched with 22-year-old Perry Hopstein after she lowered her age range on the dating app to 19.<br /><br />The secondary school teacher is often mistaken for Perry's mum but the loved-up couple, from North Carolina, US, plan to marry this year.<br /><br />Divorcee Sharon said: "I may be old enough to be Perry's mother, but I won't let that stop me from chasing happiness.<br /><br />"Perry and I know we're meant to be together and we don't care what other people think."<br />Sharon said her 16-year marriage to her ex-husband, who was a similar age to her, ended in 2015 after they 'grew apart'.<br /><br />"In the last year of our relationship, I found myself stealing glances at men in their 20s whenever we went out," she said.<br /><br />"I vowed to find someone more suited to my spontaneous personality."<br /><br />Sharon matched with Royal Marine Perry in January 2020 after she changed her settings on Tinder.
