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Assuming no one was asked to be set up, why do married people always go out of their way to set up their single friends? Do they subconsciously want their single friends to be married too?
What's the thought process behind them trying to be matchmakers? I rarely see single people trying to set up other single people.
They are miserable in their own marriage so they want you to be married also. Bunch of haters.
Single people do set up other single people. And there are plenty of married people who couldn't be bothered. There are all kinds of people out there. Some are thoughtful enough to try to set up their friends or acquaintances when the opportunity presents itself, whether they themselves are single or married.
Why do married people always try to set up their single friends?
What's the thought process behind them trying to be matchmakers?
A wag would say "Misery loves company". However, many do it out of having a good sense for what will work. Many older women in particular see opportunities that younger women never will consider until it's 5 years too late. However, women in particular are not interested in that in the slightest. They usually think that they have what it takes to attract the alpha guys - based on their long years of experience waking up in their bed on Wednesday morning.
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Originally Posted by bicoastal10
I rarely see single people trying to set up other single people.
85 to 90% of men have little success as it is so it would be expecting an incredible degree of generosity to give away any woman who they think is available.
Only spoken for women set people up, guys never do. If a guy knows a hot girl, he'll want her for himself, even if he's taken, he won't set you up since she's an option if his current girl dont work out. A friend won't set up his friend with an ugly girl because guys don't want to inflict pain on their bros.
Women on the other hand, do it to pawn off their loser uggo friends onto unsuspecting guys so they can do "couple things" with their loser friend and the guy. These women are not the guy's friend, they are entirely indifferent to whether or not the man would find this girl desirable, they just want their girl to find a guy. I've been set up twice and should've known better that women who don't sell pictures of themselves as birth control don't need to be set up since any woman better looking than Rosie O'Donnell can get guys in the DC area.
Assuming no one was asked to be set up, why do married people always go out of their way to set up their single friends? Do they subconsciously want their single friends to be married too?
What's the thought process behind them trying to be matchmakers? I rarely see single people trying to set up other single people.
You know you have won something when they don't even talk about it anymore. You're too good for any that we know. All these women have something serious wrong with them. You don't need any of it. The setting up stopped. Well....thank you!
i cant say we are always trying"" to set our single friends up but when we do it is because they have expressed the desire to "fit in" better with me and my wife and do common things together as couples that are just awkward as a single person.
i wouldn't really ever think to set anyone up without having a reason first.
No idea... None of my friends (married or not) try to set me up with men.
I'm not sure if that's a good or a bad thing...
Haha, mine neither anymore. I think they think I'm too picky and it's inevitable that the guy will go for me and not vice versa (not even trying to sound stuck on myself...either a guy likes me and I don't like him or it's the other way around - never is it a mutual like!)
To answer the OP, I think it's because married friends don't always feel comfortable hanging out as a couple with the single friend and it's basically the end of the world for at least one of them if one of them hangs out with the single person alone. So matchmaking evens the numbers out.
When I was first divorced I thought that married friends might help me meet a good woman. What I found out was that most of my married friends had married friends - not many singles in their groups. And they few that were single were single for very good reasons
Single friends know more single people and are a good way to meet a potential partner. Lately, I taken to chatting with young women who are to young for me, but often have older female friends and relatives who are be interesting. Hey. it might work!
Assuming no one was asked to be set up, why do married people always go out of their way to set up their single friends? Do they subconsciously want their single friends to be married too?
What's the thought process behind them trying to be matchmakers? I rarely see single people trying to set up other single people.
I would hate to be set up without my knowledge. My friends are open to it whenever I'm ready for it but they'd never do it without my knowledge.
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