You’ve heard of people looking for love in bars, grocery stores, the gym, even online, but how many people do you know that look to their parents to hook them up with Mr. or Ms. Right? (Okay, besides those singles who are participating in arranged marriages?) Personally, I don’t know many. However, I’m told that could soon change.
According to a new study a large segment of the dating population is discovering that family matchmaking works. It’s being touted as the hippest, hottest trend in dating. So hot, in fact, that MTV has created two shows, which feature parents helping their college age children find the ideal date.
The family matchmaking idea seems dated itself. Call me crazy, but isn’t this how young single people met potential suitors in the 1920’s, 30’s, 40’s, 50’s… after all, who knows you better than your own family? Relationship experts agree and say the traditional idea of matchmaking is definitely making a comeback. Their take on the what’s-old-is-new-again dating concept: “More young singles with hectic lives are asking their parents to play Cupid.” Another perk that comes with family matchmaking… by the time a date shows up on your doorstep they’ve already passed the “parent-approval test.”
Several online dating services are jumping on the old-fashioned family fix-up bandwagon, including Matchmakingmoms.com. According to the website, family and friends, not the dater, create the profiles and search for matches on behalf of their single loved ones. The family members do all the correspondence and even set up when and where the dates happen. From there, the site says: “The chemistry is up to the single people to decide if this is a true match or not.”
If you decide to give the dating method a shot and find the match is just not made in “family heaven”—at least you know who to blame.