Match Me Abroad’sHaroldis learning that love can be found in unexpected places.
In PEOPLE’s exclusive sneak peek at Sunday’s episode, Harold, a 41-year-old artist from New Mexico, and his date Michaela go to the old wastewater treatment plant for a tour in Prague.
“Do you find this interesting?” Harold asks Michaela. She replied, “Yes, of course.”
Harold then explains why the tour was meaningful to me sharing, “All of this technology reminds me of my line of work. I’m in radiation protection.”
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After Michaela tells him that his knowledge was “interesting,” the pair move on to look at some historic steam engines. “It must make a huge sound, no?” she asks, and Harold responds, “I believe so. Yes. It goeschug chug chug.”
Michaela tells cameras what she likes most about Harold: “He’s so kind and he has [a] nice smile and he’s so clever. I think intelligent men are sexy. I think Harold is not like normal sexy, but he has something really nice inside.”
Harold, who has autism, seems equally smitten with Michaela. “Being on the spectrum has affected my dating life. I can miss cues sometimes but I feel at ease with Michaela,” he says. “It is an enormous breath of fresh air to be recognized as normal and just try to be myself.”
He adds: “Love comes unexpectedly sometimes — even in a sewer given the right conditions.”
However, he struck out at finding love with another match, Teresa. The pairstruggled to find common groundduring a paddleboat ride together.
“I felt I listened to her and asked a lot of questions and tried to get a lot of dialogue going,” Harold said. “But I wait for her to ask me questions but she doesn’t, and I want her to get to know me.”
Later during the excursion, Harold asked Teresa directly if she found him attractive.
“I don’t know you so much, but if I should be like, really like, honest, I don’t like flowers on men, for example,” she answers, referring to his floral shirt.
Reflecting on the date later, Harold tries to put a positive spin on the experience — despite Teresa’s apparent lack of interest. He said, “Being socially awkward as I am, I think Teresa and I are a good match. We connect on several levels. She’s beautiful. I’m kind of getting tunnel vision, I think.”
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Match Me Abroadfollows six American men and womenon their quest to find love from Colombia to Morocco.
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Match Me Abroadairs Sundays at 10 p.m. ET on TLC.
source: people.com
