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  • #674946
    mom12
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    oomis1105, azoi.is is correct- when i offer a shidduch to someone, I am honest in what I know and what I ddon’t know.

    If I have reference, which I usually do, I call them and ask what they can tell me about the boy/girl..and what kind of person would be suitable etc…

    I usually get honest answers, and mention shidduchim accordingly…

    I also never tell anyone they are being to picky or things like that, because I figured it is ‘min hashamayim’ and it’s not the right shidduch..

    there must be a way…I have so many singles I’d love to help..

    #674948
    AZ
    Participant

    Lets take 3 guesses why by these singles events the girls are more than reaady to come and PAY and it is very difficult to get the boys to come (and thus simple economics dictates that if they don’t get significant discounts they won’t come)

    Here’s a hint: there are far more available girls than guys thus the girls have great difficulty getting dates and the boys have dates a-plenty

    Anyone wonder how that’s possible????

    For the record single’s events help-somewhat, there are far more effective measures that need to take place, and they will, when the community gets around to it..

    #674949
    oomis
    Participant

    There is a major problem with so-called references. Who would give out their friend or neighbor’s number as a reference without being sure that the person has only nice things to say? Do you really think a reference is going to tell you ANYTHING negative?

    On the rare occasion that the person would be 100% candid about something less than stellar about the proposed shidduch, it could get back to the person who gave that person as a reference, and cause machlokess.

    #674950
    AZOI.IS
    Participant

    oomis1105, how is that different no matter who or what the source of the Shidduch is? Can you limit yourself to dating only those who your relatives and close friends know personally? BTW I’ve heard of references being quite candid.

    Anyhow, as a single ages, whether a boy or girl, I think people call references less and less, and rely more on networking with people for info (whether right or wrong). After a while the single and their friends get the same names over and over, mostly.

    #674951
    oomis
    Participant

    AZOI you are absolutely right – it makes no difference who the source of the shidduch is. Very few people whose names are given by the boy or girl are going to be candid, though. if you have heard of such people, then they are the exception or had reshus from the family to speak candidly. Most people like to put their BEST foot forward, so they choose references who will bedavka enhance their image, NOT speak candidly about their flaws. Kind of like a used car salesman. I myself do prefer to network, but I don’t necessarily know people who live in the communities of a proposed shidduch.

    #674952
    mom12
    Participant

    O.K. Here’s an idea..which I use ALL the time, I ask for one ref. that knows boy and one ref that knows family..when I call this ref. I ask them if they can give me someone else that might be able to give me info as well..this is not coming from the boy/girl/parents . so if the next one says I’m not that friendly with this boy or girl its even better, cuz friends will always give the best info. whereas an ‘outsider’ will honestly say if they are friendly, angry etc…

    #674953
    yiddeshekup101
    Participant

    WOW!! Good stuff here….however, i honestly didnt read most of the posts. A couple pf observations.

    1. Boys who are sitting and learning in Yeshia until 22-24 are not ready to date. They don’t have any idea what the responsibilities that will come with marriage. The Yeshivos, somewhere along the way (11th/12th grade perhaps) should start explaining to them what is expected of a husband (and I am a husband who knew nothing 20+ years ago). Being sheltered in Yeshiva for 20 years and suddenly to start dating in the hopes of getting married quickly is alot of pressure for any boy.

    2. Girls who want “the best boy” and think they can support AND raise a family is unrealistic to most (those with $$$ are the exception….for the rest it is a struggle). While idealogically I understand why one would want such a lifestyle, today it just seems that more and more young families are setting themseleves up for failure.

    3. Parents need to set realistic expectations for THEMSELVES and understand what they want may not be what their son/daughter wants. If a shidduch sounds good, let them go out. If it is B’shert it will happen, if not, not. But for parents to influence the dating process based on their own desires is wrong.

    #674954

    To yiddeshekup101

    Look at this new blog “Singles Over the Age of 25 Should Deal Directly With the Shaddchan”

    #674955
    realtalk
    Member

    I just read the first few comments and felt that a reply was needed. To whoever said, that the boys should mature earlier- hello!!! Girls are bas mitzvah at 12 and boys at 13- there is obviously a reason for it. And physically they mature at an older age than do the girls- there is a reason they are telling the girls to wait- and he did not say to wait until they are older, just till they are 20! That is very reasonable!

    #674958
    hereorthere
    Member

    If being out, away from the frum world, “gives a girl a mind of her own” then it would seem the answer is that the boys too, should go out in the world away from Yeshivah so they too can be “sophisticated” and have all the non Torah qualities they can’t get in yeshivah that constitute “having minds of their own”.

    #674960
    hereorthere
    Member

    When I being a “baal Teshuvah” went to shadchannim I had one main

    quality I was looking for, that that was a girl who wanted to be careful about Loshon Hara, not someone who wanted to know the “latest juicy gossip” but who wanted to focus on building a family based on Torah and Mitzvohs.

    I was told by the shadchanim that such a girl (even though she may have been in yeshivah only a few months)deserved a boy who had been in yeshivah for 10 years or more.

    It did not matter they said, that the boy was interested in being careful about such things.

    All that mattered was the number of years, he spent in yeshivah.

    So a guy with lousy midos would be pared with a girl with excellent midos just because of how long he had spent in yeshivah.

    Such attitudes destroyed my chances of finding a good shidduch for me and in my opinion the blood of all those of my descendents who will now never be born, is on the hands of those shadchanim and those who think like them.

    #674963
    oomis
    Participant

    A shadchan that was so negative towards baalei teshuvah should not have been the one consulted for help in such a shidduch. It is not a bad idea to look into shidduchim with girls who are likewise coming back to Torah and Mitzvos. I would call Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis and aske her if she knows of someone appropriate for you. She has made many such shidduchim. You don’t go to law school to become a doctor, and you don’t go to a shadchan with that type of snobby attitude towards B”T, to find an appropriate shidduch for a B”T.

    #674964
    hereorthere
    Member

    When I first started looking for a shidduch I had not heard of Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis.

    I met her about 15-20 years later and she invited me to come to her weekly lectures which had singles who could meet each other.

    I however did not have the money to dress well enough on a weekly basis nor did I have the excellent high paying job that everyone else who went to such things had.

    I would have looked and felt extremly out of place and did not have the kind of background or professional job that is needed to fit in there, either.

    #674968
    ir
    Member

    hereorthere – A response like the one you received from that shadchan was narrow, and there are many shadchonim, and well intentioned individuals that are trying to help people no matter what the background. Hatzlocha Vebrocha.

    #674972
    hereorthere
    Member

    And if sophistiocated is not goyish then there is absolutely no need to leave the Torah world to get it.

    Everything is in Torah.

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