Sheryl Sandberg Engaged To Tom Bernthal Five Years After Husband Passes Away

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg is engaged to boyfriend Tom Bernthal.

The 50-year-old shared the happy news on Instagram with a black-and-white photo of the couple writing, “Engaged!!! Tom Bernthal, you are my everything. I could not love you more.”

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The happy news comes after a long road for Sheryl. Sheryl’s late husband Dave Goldberg passed away in 2015 from to a heart-related cause while the couple was on vacation with friends in Mexico. Sheryl and her husband, Dave, had been married for nine years at the time of his death.

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Sherly began dating her now-fiancé in Spring 2019 and the couple were apparently set up by her former brother-in-law, a source told People.

Tom, who is the founder and CEO of Kelton Global, a strategic consulting agency, proposed with a ring that included five hidden diamonds for each of their five children.

Sheryl has a son and a daughter from her marriage to Dave and her new fiancé has three kids from a previous marriage.

The mom of two opened up to “The Guardian” in 2017 about the difficulty for women dating after losing a spouse saying, “…Because women get judged much more harshly. Men date sooner, men date more, and women get judged more.”

“And, you know, obviously that’s super unfair. I think I’m helping people remember that dating, for those who want to do it, is part of moving forward, and it is option B. If I could I would only date Dave. I made that choice. I just had that taken away from me.”