Worst idea I have ever heard of....yuck!! Too much pressure and awkwardness....I remember this one time where a friend of mine went ahead and gave this one guy my number and he called and it was so weird, cuz I wasn't looking for a boyfriend and as much as he was a nice guy, I just felt like he was expecting it to end up as a dating thing....way too weird! LOL
My wife has tried to do this a few times. Back in her country, sometimes single women would ask her how they could marry an American man. Sometimes they'd even ask me. Over here, we've had a couple of Christian guys over for dinner and my who were single and looking. One of them had a girlfriend from my wife's country and was specifically interested in a wife from there. There were no matches. One of them was interested in a picture of a young cousin who had just started dating someone as it turns out. He turned out to be a bossy kind of guy, she saw later, so we kind of dropped that matter. The other fellow didn't see anyone on facebook that interested in.
I hear that in Japan and Korea, if you are single, you can mention it to the pastor and he'll try to match you up. In Japan, people in authority tend to try to do that. The manager of a department may try to match up his employees with other employees. I hear in churches in Japan, 80% of the people are women. If you are a man, asking the pastor might be able to match you up. Matchmaking, either professionally or through relatives, is pretty common in Korea. I know a man who wanted to get married when he was older. He went to a Korean church and told the pastor, and was introduced to a woman who was past Korean marriage age. I don't know the details of this stuff, but you have to learn a little about expectations if you try something like this. Koreans get matched up for blind dates in college, but if they get close to or past 30 and it comes to the stage where family get involved in matchmaking, the two people meet and parents ask what do you think about marrying him or her. After several more meetings, you could be married. It goes pretty fast. I don't know if family check out the marriage candidate and their families closely or not before or after setting two people up on that initial date. So if you go to a pastor of one of these churches and tell them you'd like to be introduced to someone because you want to get married, you could be expected to act rather fast. It might work better for men than for women, too, especially in Japan.
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