It seems that Cougars and Kittens created some controversy regarding relationships. Frankly, I think a lot of it has to do with serendipity. Dating and mating are so difficult. However, I know of happily married couples who took a networking Business School approach to meet and marry — planning, planning, and strategizing. To me it sounds a bit too methodical. And yet, years later they are still together. They did their networking at graduate school gatherings, at high end bars, and at well picked social events. Additionally, some of the couples went the online route.
I know of five couples who married their online match. As with buying a car, each wanted “attractive and compatible.” But for another twosome, serendipity intervened.
“When I met my wife, we were Baby Boomers at an Ivy League graduate program. She was using one of those high-end dating services. I didn’t fit her stuffy doc profile. I kept telling her, ‘I’m younger than you are and more fun than these older guys.’ So I kept asking her out until she married me.”
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Gratitude and sex ‘trumps the king’
What intrigued me most was the idea of love and cars. As such, I began the piece as follows:
IF ALOVEMATCH.COM merged with aNewCar.com would relationships have a longer shelf life?
With fall in the air, more invitations to join a Man-of-the-Month club arrive at my door than sex ads that clutter up the nation’s e-mail. As online matchmaking services proliferate, the good professor mused, “Whatever happened to serendipity or friends introducing friends?”
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