A: “I think I’ve seen that Hallmark Movie. Pass.”
In the entirety of my life, this has never happened once.
I’m guessing that it has only ever happened in cultures that I’ve never been exposed to and probably no where near where I’ve ever lived.
Maybe there’s some rich Hollywood Fat-Cat who owns the story trademark and wants residuals, because as much as it comes up in movies, “that shit never ever happens”.
It happened to me once. My brother’s mother-in-law gave me her telephone number. We met twice and I made a complete hash of it.
What did your sister-in-law think of you dating her mom?
Back in the late 70’s my (divorced) mum was set up to meet a fellow by one of her friends. IIRC, this fellow needed someone to accompany him to a formal party or something.
Anyway, they married after a couple of years and stayed that way (happily) until she passed 3 yrs ago. Stepdad is still going strong at 86.
So yeah, it can and does happen. 
My dad’s brother introduced him to his girlfriend’s sister. Worked out pretty well for those four. Our grandparents got a couple of dozen grandkids out of the deal.
This only happened to me once, and as mentioned upthread, told me about what the setter-up thought of my taste in men.
I tended to like wiry, smaller intellectual men with a snarky sense of humor. I was introduced to a man who looked like a more bearlike version of Al from Home Improvement. Speaking with him didn’t improve matters; he wasn’t intellectually curious and didn’t get my own snarky jokes.
That was the last time I let a friend introduce me to someone. It was 1979.
It’s happened to me a few times. I’ve always been insulted that the introducer thought I would be interested in that person. :rolleyes:
When I was a very young woman, one of my “friends” wanted to introduce me to a married man (see footnote) and also introduced me to a friend of her then-boyfriend who showed up stinking drunk in the mid afternoon. When she sent me a friend request on Facebook a few years ago, I declined it, twice, and I found out later that she blocked me. :dubious: Go figure.
Footnote: “But he’s separated!” “Yes, but he’s still married.” Never met him and don’t even remember his name, but he and his wife reconciled shortly afterwards. I do remember that they had no children.
AKA
“Here’s my uggo friend will you take her off my hands”
Heh! The telephone number she gave me was not her own.
I married her and it’s been great for 24 years.
Not necessarily a romantic set up, but given that everyone involved is fairly ambi-sexual, there was potential. My friend had been telling both me and another woman about each other and suggesting we get together because he thought we’d like each other. So we finally get together and go out for drinks, and his friend and I do indeed hit it off. As we are talking, I realize something sounds familiar. Turns out we’d already met each other without his help one afternoon at the dog park, and had spent an hour or so chatting and watching our dogs play and swapping dog stories.
Nothing romantic ever came of it for me, but more than ten years later, she and I are still good friends.
I used to wish it would happen, but it never did.
Pretty much the result for me with both friends and family who don’t seem to grasp the idea that being single is not a bad state. I’ve never been “looking” and don’t really understand the abstract idea of “wanting” to be in a relationship, any relationship.
I think marriage is a sexist anachronism so I’ve never been and will never be married, but I’ve been in two long-term and quite a few short-term relationships, but between relationships I serenely go along, happy to be single. I only want to be in a relationship if I bump into someone I really like. And then I just want to be with him, not just any relationship. I’ve never gone on out on a date with someone I don’t know, and don’t ever plan to do so.
A friend of mine said he wanted to meet me for lunch (on a workday) and I said “sure, why not”. When I got to the meeting location, my friend said: “I don’t really want to have lunch with you. Sitting over there is a friend of my co-worker. If you’d like to meet her, I’ll introduce you. If you don’t like the way she looks, I’ll blow her off.”
I was a bit surprised; I probably would have worn a cleaner shirt if I knew I was going to meet a woman in a date-like setting. I guess it didn’t matter in the end, since we got married and we’re still together after 12 years.
For what it’s worth, my friend, my wife, and her friend are all Chinese so it could be a cultural thing.
A very good friend of mine didn’t come to a very important event in my life because he’d been told he had to go to a particular social function where there was this woman that a friend wanted to introduce him to who was said to be perfect for him. I was a bit pissed off at the time. I thought “you are blowing off coming to an important thing in my life for just a chance of meeting some woman who let’s face it you probably won’t actually hit it off with…”
They are married now and have been for about 25 years. So I guess it was worth it. And they are absolutely perfect for one another.
To the OP, didn’t you just recently inherit a large sum of money?
Depends. How much do you trust the person doing the set up? If it’s take this clinger off my hands, then no. If it’s more you like x, she likes x, and I think you two might click, then why not?
I’ve had a few set ups. Most didn’t click or we were just two opposite (me: “I love backpacking” her, “the 4 seasons spa is totally awesome”). Did have one that got very serious for a while but didn’t pan out. No regrets