Dying US author pens heartfelt dating profile for husband

Amy Krouse wanted to spend another 26 years of married life with her husband until she was diagnosed with cancer

As a reminder of how our lives take drastic turns, an ailing US author has written a captivating dating profile for her husband.

In the letter titled ‘You May Want to Marry My Husband’ published by The New York Times, Amy Krouse Rosenthal pens the attributes of her husband so that he finds a new life partner because she sees herself losing her battle with cancer.As much as the letter sounds sad and tragic, it also emanates a great feeling of love that Amy cherishes in heart for her husband, Jason Brian Rosenthal.

As much as the letter sounds sad and tragic, it also emanates a great feeling of love that Amy cherishes in heart for her husband, Jason Brian Rosenthal.



Amy is the author of over 20 children’s books and has been married to Jason for 26 years. She planned to spend another 26 years with her but she saw, sadly, diagnosed with cancer last September.

“So many plans instantly went poof,” she wrote.

“No trip with my husband and parents to South Africa. No reason, now, to apply for the Harvard Loeb Fellowship. No dream tour of Asia with my mother. No writers’ residencies at those wonderful schools in India, Vancouver, Jakarta.

No wonder the word cancer and cancel look so similar,” she added.

Amy recalls how she met Jason and decided he was the man she is going to live with all her life.



“It was 1989. We were only 24. I had precisely zero expectations about this going anywhere. But when he knocked on the door of my little frame house, I thought, “Uh-oh, there is something highly likeable about this person,” she writes.

“By the end of dinner, I knew I wanted to marry him.”

And then Amy, perhaps painstakingly, writes every single detail about his beloved in order to get her a life partner.

“He is a sharp dresser. Our young adult sons, Justin and Miles, often borrow his clothes. Those who know him — or just happen to glance down at the gap between his dress slacks and dress shoes — know that he has a flair for fabulous socks. He is fit and enjoys keeping in shape,” she writes.

She also gives the reason that why she penned the letter even though she loved her husband yearned to spend more time with him.

“I want more time with Jason. I want more time with my children. I want more time sipping martinis at the Green Mill Jazz Club on Thursday nights. But that is not going to happen. I probably have only a few days left being a person on this planet. So why I am doing this?” she writes while nearing the end of the letter.

“I am wrapping this up on Valentine’s Day, and the most genuine, non-vase-oriented gift I can hope for is that the right person reads this, finds Jason, and another love story begins.”