<p>As I get closer to age 60 , I have been asked by several people to help them find a life partner . I have already set up several couples ,who remain happily married . Anyone have experience in this area ? Curious to know how matchmakers set up their fee structure .</p>
<p>I’m thinking one of my retirement gigs will be wedding singer. Synergy with the over 60 matchmakers!</p>
<p>A very good friend of mine recently met up with a lady and they’ve
been dating for a few months. I’ve known him for about 15 years and
this is the happiest and most productive that I’ve seen him in those
years. He had one rough relationship that didn’t work out and he was
very depressed for a few years afterwards - enough so that I was quite
worried about him.</p>
<p>I think that he’s a nice catch but our area isn’t very good if you’re
looking for single people.</p>
<p>I believe that he met her at some kind of meetup for singles, not in
our area. I can certainly see the pain of being single and I’m sure
that there are huge numbers of people feeling this kind of pain. My
friend tried bars, internet dating, a matchmaking service. I suggested
a few things including moving to a big city. I think that it was some
amount of random chance that he met his friend.</p>
<p>I think that the biggest problem with matchmaking is competing with
the free or cheap internet matchmaking services. I believe that these
do work on some level (one of my sisters met her husband on one of
these services) but the personal aspect is tossed out the door.
Sometimes I’m surprised that Amazon.com and ebay don’t have matchmaking
services.</p>
<p>I think that what you propose is useful - getting people to pay
(enough) for it may be the hard part.</p>
<p>Well, I actually helped match up some college roommates–partly through CC–no charge. (We’ll see how it works out in the fall. . .)</p>