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An article from « VOICI » by Chloe SELEDENE Traduction by Selima AYOUB If she was to be a Moliere's character, Douce Albertini would have been Dorine, the incorrigible go-between. Same mischievousness, same tendency to heapher audience with a continuous flood of words, same fascination for the couple and love. In her flashing fifties, Douce has kept, after two divorces and an intense love life, a little girl's romantic side. Her living room is overflowed with teddy bears and friends' pictures. "Pretty Woman" and "Gone with the Wind" gives her vibrations, just like "Bonny and Clyde's duet. Douce is madly in love ...with love. She has made it a profession. For more than 10 years now, Douce has been a Love Coach. "I help people to feel better and to find their half-orange" says this eruptive Corsican nature. She found her passion near a little stream in Corte (Corsica). " I was 15 years old, I remember. One afternoon, I noticed a couple which I found non well-matched. I told myself that the young man would go along more with one of my friend. I did everything to make them meet. It worked!" Classical history of a romantic teenager? Certainly not! Few years later, she is a designer for kids' clothing in Paris, happy married and mother! And Douce plays Cupid again: classified advertisements, meeting and testing psychologically suitors before an eventual presentation to her unmarried friends. "That is how I invented and tested my own method, the one I use today, on a professional base. It gave me the opportunity of making many couples meet, including a few peoples"... but without naming them! She is proud to be at the origin of a mixt couple, a Jewish young man and a Muslim young woman. They got over their differences and religions to live their love. Douce has a price: 9200 € (to be discussed...) for 9 months' coaching. She manages from A to Z the love affair of her "accomplices". After the writing of a memoir (about a hundred pages) about their loving and emotional relation, we establish a qualification statement (like in a firm). Follows multiple e-mails correspondence where they tell me their state of mind. I give them some marks and in which direction they should go. Douce is more often very closed with her customers, mainly women between 30 and 50 years old. She goes on week-ends or on holidays with them to surround their likings, their characters. She looks over the appearance for others. More, she precises a photo fit of the man who will correspond to each one of her protected "accomplice". Then starts the meticulous track: because Douce never jokes with love. "When I do not think about anyone in my address book, I select from Internet meeting pages the profiles that are suitable Douce also accosts people in the street or in stores,when she is convinced that they are suitable. Once the encounter is organised as a go-in- between, she pulls the strings for the couples in their infancy to overcome the difficulties of the early beginnings .”I’ve helped several men to conquer my “accomplices” she admits .One of them didn’t dare to impose himself .Taking my advice he finally kidnapped her for a weekend in Normandy which made their relationship take another turn. They have just settled together. I’ve already helped some people to pack before their first love escapade.” She does not interfere at all Douce swears:”I know how to leave the game when I feel that one of the two people is relying too much on me “.Like the faithful Dorine, when love triumphs, Douce bows out. MARIE, fifty years old, the mother of a family. She has been living a new life with Sébastien, fifty years old, the head of a flirt “I often came across Douce in parties because we had friends in common. She soon became a close relation. She has an acute sense of observation. She studied my nature and my habits a lot before introducing me to Sébastien. She organised our meeting over a drink. It was proved that we had a lot of things in common and that we were completely complementary. Douce had warned me he was a man of very strong character and that some of his reactions might surprise me. Her advice was of great help to avoid some snags at the beginning of our relationship.   Five years ago, SABINE, forty years old, an executive in the Telecoms , coached by Douce married Pierre, a producer in the audiovisual.. “After a difficult divorce, I wanted to have a new life and soon have children. After several months she had found someone for me but he wasn’t free. She invited both of us to her birthday party without telling us that the other one will be present. It was love at first sight. The following day Douce admitted that he was the man she was seeing for me .For his part Pierre called her to tell her he had broken off with his girlfriend. Luck did the right thing , we got married one year later on Douce’s birthday, I owe her my happiness with Peter and our two wonderful children. CHLOE, twenty-seven years old, coached by Douce. She works in show business. Last summer she married Bertrand, thirty-two years old, who works in the cinema sphere. “I had heard of Douce in my circle .At my age I wasn’t particularly looking for Mr Right. Then I went through a difficult period. I was alone, I had the blues. After inquiring a little on Douce,  I decided to take her as my coach. She has good knowledge of mankind .She immediately finds out who you really are. After decorticating my personality she put me in touch with Bertrand. At first we exchanged e-mails.Then Douce allowed us to talk to each other on the phone. Then finally she organised a meeting at her flat. We left together. Four months later we said “yes” to each other. For my research, I get in contact with them and I test them for many weeks. When I am sure, then I plan to organise a meeting, but before, I ask them for an income tax declaration, a pay check and even a divorce statement to see if they are serious.

 

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