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Date Posted: 15:24:14 06/04/03 Wed
Author: Valerie
Subject: Re: Blind Date
In reply to: Ann 's message, "Blind Date" on 19:25:33 06/03/03 Tue

I have watched a programmes that we have over in the UK also callled Blind date, but most of the people on it only seem to want their time on the TV, not many of them get on with each other! I actually met my husband on sort of a blind date and my mum and dad did as well. I wasn't so sure about my husband when I first met him, but my friend suggested that I carry on seeing him as a friend and see how it went, so I did and is was nice just going out on dates and as he lived in a different town, it was usually just once a week or sometimes at weekends, so we got to know each other slowly. Like you said it was a bit more old fashioned but nice. I must admit on the first night I had a feeling he was who i would marry, but we had a lot of ups and downs before we eventually did, 2 years later.

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[> [> Re: Blind Date -- Anne, 20:45:30 06/04/03 Wed

Hello Ladies,

this is an interesting thread!! We also have the Australian version of Blind Date over here. Like Valerie said, alot of the people who have been on seem mainly to just want their moment on TV, most of them don't have much nice to say about the other person.

I also feel it's a shame that often, initially, people don't continue to look deeper than just looks. I have a couple of friends who are persistently single because they just can't seem to settle for anything except absolute perfection in their man (must have: looks, great career, house, money etc). And it seems, as they get older they are getting more and more picky! I think if you go have one of those pre-set lists of criteria it will make it very hard to ever match it.

I met my husband 16 years ago when I was only fifteen, he was eighteen. He was quite nice looking, which was a bonus, but the best thing was I spent time getting to know him and found his personality was so brilliant and we have been together ever since. Luckily for me, he says he felt the same about me! At the time I met him, one of my friends, who is still single years later said to me "You could do better than him, he is quite homely looking." (I thought, no, I don't want to do better than him, he is just right!) That same friend said to me just recently, "You have the best husband, you don't know how lucky you are." I think because we just gave it time and neither of us had a list of set requirements, is why it has worked.

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[> [> [> Re: Blind Date -- Ann, 23:34:07 06/04/03 Wed

I wonder if your friend has learned anything from your experience!
And I wonder if it ever occurs to people who are so very picky that maybe other people are being picky about them? Are they perfect enough for the picky people?
Then I'm also amazed that some people are very focused *only* on a very particular physical look. Must have dark hair, dark eyes, be tall, be athletic just as an example. So they keep falling for the same outer characteristics and seem to forget about considering if someone is kind, generous, thoughtful, etc.
Laura at one time didn't want to marry a farmer. But when she found a guy as wonderful as Amanzo and he was a farmer, well, she had the good sense to marry him.

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