I worked with this woman some many years ago, she retired a couple of years after I started and went off to live with her hubby by the coast. Several years later I worked with another woman, although she was presenting as male at the time and I had no idea she was trans until I heard, a few years after she moved on, that she had transitioned. Very likely she hadn't even come out to herself as trans while she was working at the same place as me.
A few years ago the first woman's hubby passed away. A year later, guess who she's in a relationship with? That's right, the trans woman!
Although both of them worked at the same place it was years apart and they didn't know or meet each other through that. They met through internet dating... both in their sixties, probably seventies. I believe (though I don't know for sure, this is only gossip) both their families think they are bonkers!! They've been together for three or four years now.
So there you have it, it can and does happen. Love can be found.