I still vividly remember the horribly awkward blind date that my mother set me up on with the soccer coach of her best friend’s son. It seemed like every time I came home from college there was someone she wanted me to meet and I had to fight off her attempts to play matchmaker for fear of more awkward blind dates.
And yet tonight I am taking my daughter with me to a casual friend’s house to introduce her to their son. LOLOL - I have turned into my mother.
Anyone else?
@My3Kiddos – I joined a running club and specifically signed up for a post-race brunch (which are usually attended by the younger members) so I could see if there were any nice young men for DD. I’m in the market for a son-in-law, as it were. But I didn’t end up going.
Good luck with your DD!
Please break the cycle of abuse.
One of my cousin’s was at a hotel in Atlantic City and there was a bachelorette party seated at a table near her. She got up and brazenly asked if any of the girls were single because she had a great son…The girls all pointed to the bride’s sister and my cousin asked for her phone number - which she gave her. Fast forward a few months and the son came home from another not so great date and decided on spur of moment to call her (my cousin had been asking him for months if he called.) Long story short - they are getting married in August.
@My3Kiddos Have you seen the movie The Big Sick yet?
She knows the purpose of the visit and is going willingly. My friend has been wanting to fix them up since she met DD. My family met this young man not too long ago and even DH has told her she should meet him. (with DS even piping in that he seemed like a good guy who was easy to talk to.) It’s not that we’re desperate to fix her up, we all just think they’d really get along.
The only other time DH and I have gotten involved in matchmaking resulted in my best friend marrying his co-worker. So even if this doesn’t work out, we’ll still be batting .500!
I have imagined scenarios of picking out guys for my daughters , but that is as far as it has gone. There was a period of time when my oldest daughter was back home after college and I had the perfect guy for her …of course, nothing ever happened.
@doschicos - Haven’t heard of it. Will take a look, though.
When my D was in high school, I thought one of our young neighbors was very nice and that they’d make a cute couple. I never actually told her than; she just knew I thought he was a really nice young man. That was all it took for her to dislike him!
My mother was the bookkeeper at a store that sold swimming pools and hired a lot of young people as summer help.
One summer, she got to know a young man who had just completed his first year of college and was assigned to help her with office work. I was between my junior and senior years of high school at the time, and I also worked in the store that summer, but I worked on the sales floor, so I rarely saw him.
My mom made lots of positive statements about this guy to me. I suspect she also made positive statements about me to him. The next summer, when he returned from college, he immediately asked me out, even though he barely knew me. I said yes. Her opinion played a role in my decision and perhaps in his as well.
We’ve been married for 41 years.
My DD let me swipe left & right on her Tinder once 
My sister matched her boss with my youngest sister. They’ve been happily married for years now! The matchmaking sister was the maid of honor at the wedding.
We could start a CC matchmakers club! DS turning 30, good looking, nice job, socially awkward geek…highly unlikely he’ll go out and find someone on his own. And would kill me if he knew I posted this! 
My mom got me my first job and my dad got me my wife - no kidding. DW worked for my father for three years before we met. He had family pictures in his office and she had been interested for a while. I got the biggest smile when we first met.
D (21 years old, just graduated) has told us she would be totally fine with us doing the screening for a partner for her. She and S2 (college freshman) have the same criteria, someone smart, athletic, and attractive enough. Nerdy would be a plus for D.
S1 has done just fine on his own.
I was recently talking to an older friend about how she met her DH, and she told me that he was a classmate of her older brother. She enquired about now-DH, and the brother was discouraging, said he had no interest. Now-DH enquired about her, the brother was discouraging, said she had no interest. (What a prince! Sheesh!!) Despite all of this discouragement, they eventually side-stepped the brother and got together. :x
Sort of the anti-match-making family.
I would love to do a CC matchmaking service. My 21 yo d is fine on her own. Her older brother however - could use some help and won’t do online dating. He’s got a good job, has his own place, is smart and sweet. Played sports but I wouldn’t call him athletic. I told him an elementary school teacher would be his ideal woman, to go hangout at school playgrounds - we had a good laugh over that.
I don’t think I could actually pull off a match making situation.
Even though it worked out OK, I won’t do it again. One of my former co-workers has a much younger half-sister who is the same age as my son. She is a shy, beautiful young woman who I’d been hearing about for years. Co-worker and I agreed that she would be the perfect date for our son for the holiday military ball, so we asked each of them if they would be interested in matching up for the event. Both said yes, both had a good time, but nothing came of it. I won’t do it again because our son has been clear that he will not get involved with anyone until his service commitment is done, and though my co-worker understood this, her little sister was disappointed that the date didn’t lead anywhere. I must admit, I was, too. My son’s love life really isn’t any of my business, so I’m leaving him to his own devices. 
@eyemamom, have him take the new puppy out in public. He will meet women. 
Last week, my friend told me that a new group of interns is coming to the hospital where her husband works and she wants to match D up with one of them. I haven’t brought it up with D. She seems to have a fun social life without a serious boyfriend. Though, it would be fun to see if matching her up with someone would work!
My 28-yo lawyer daughter would love for me to fix her up (or so she says!), but said person would have to live in NYC and be VERY flexible as regards availability.