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Saturday, February 12, 2011
Have you ever played Cupid for a friend?
I recently got together with a friend I’ve known since elementary school. We were pretty tight all the way through junior high, but divergent interests in high school put some distance between us, and then I went to Wright State for English while she went to Otterbein for biology. We stayed friends on Facebook, and she’s the one who prompted my recent adoption of a dog, but a few weeks ago we actually met in person for the first time in five years.
I was so happy that we were able to just pick right back up where we left off. We gossiped about our high school classmates and talked about our jobs - she works at a zoo, which leaves this animal-loving blogger seething with envy. (Biology/science was always a close second to English as a contender for my career choice.) It intrigued me how she looked so familiar, yet so different. Obviously we’ve both grown up, but I can still see the girl I played with at recess in third grade.
This friend has always been a little boy-crazy (and I say that lovingly, not as a criticism). Even in elementary school, she had a new crush every month, and I somehow decided it was my job to get the two of them together. I would try to involve the boys in our recess games, or happen to run into (literally) one of them on the playground just to get his attention … after which point, I didn’t really have a plan. As a kid, I was outgoing with adults but shy with other kids, so talking to these boys made me a little tongue-tied.
Fast forward to high school and the age when dating was actually an option, and I got several requests from some of my more introverted male friends to hook them up with my single girlfriends. The problem was, few of my girlfriends were single at the time, and the ones who were single would not have made good matches for the boys who were asking. Meanwhile, I was set up with my first serious boyfriend (you know, as serious as you can be at 13) by a mutual friend. That arrangement lasted 8 months, making it more successful than any attempts I’ve ever made to put two people together.
Now I find myself dispensing relationship advice to single and coupled friends alike. I’m a long-term kind of girl - I never dated casually - and I’ve been in a relationship with my high school sweetheart-turned-husband for over nine years, so that’s where my ‘expertise’ (if you can call it that) lies. I’ve graduated from any match-making shenanigans; most of my introverted male friends have coupled up, or at least had some romantic success, without my involvement. And that’s probably as it should be.
Have you had any success setting up your friends? Do you think you have a knack for match-making, or do you leave the Cupiding to Cupid? Share your success (and horror) stories here - and as always, keep it clean.
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