I think you’re right. Sometimes in friendships first impressions are very wrong so same with meeting potential spouses. Unless the man was aggressive or rude I don’t know why this woman was ‘mortified’ a man asked for her number!?
I avoided my husband for a whole year. He was younger and kind of awkward. After I got to know him better, I started to like him. It took a friend suggesting a relationship to get the ball rolling. We weren't Catholic, I had fallen away from the Faith and he was Methodist. He is the one who started looking for Truth and now we have be Traditional Catholic for 24 years. God knows what he is doing, we just need to be patient and listen.