Lunch Time Honesty Minute: Match Making

I am the worst! I swear I am terrible! But I have good intentions I PROMISE I do!!!!


I have friends who are super cute, reliable, smart, funny and they deserve a man but they can't find one. My husband has friends who need girl friends! It gets lonely being the only couple at a gathering. So often we like to make matches out of our friends!

My first match making experience was at age 14! I had a guy friend who was nice and sweet and I had a best friend who deserved that! Little do I know this would be the biggest regret of my life. This relationship seemed fun because they were around each other often and they were kind of the only singles in the group! The match was made and after the bliss came infidelity on his part! I watched as my friend was hurt over and over again and how she kept going back because she "knew" she could make it work! She's been through arguing, fighting, crying, and the social network drama. We've been through breaking up of our friendship because I continued to try and show her that she deserved better. Ultimately something Good came of their relationship, she was 7 pounds 6 ounces and she was the pride and joy that blocked out all the deceit that came with the relationship! I can honestly say that I have pondered dropping this friend ship many times because I was often looked at as a liar by her and a trick with the truth by him. I learned to distance my self from them both but I can never let that friendship go no matter what because I love that her (plus she knows too much) and I sadly feel a little responsible for the stupidity I feel my friends has over a man I helped her mate with!

My next HORRIBLE match came in the form of my high school/college friend and a in-law of mine! It was bad ... real bad! It started out FUN! And again they were always around each other but this time we were grown so there was also alot of flirting! My friend had been in many different type of relationships and she's dealt with more that a 30 year old from baby momma's to lying men ... that list goes on ... WHO KNEW I WOULD HOOK HER UP WITH A MAN WITH ALL THE PROBLEMS SHE'D HAD IN THE PAST! They seemed like the perfect couple! Ok ... No they didn't it was a bad idea and I own up to it now! Liquor can make people seem more ideal than they are and when we hooked them up we were definitely drunk that WHOLE week leading up to their relationship!

My last and FINAL Match made was THE ULTIMATE WORST! We thought that with all the relationships these two had been through that it only made sense that two HOPELESS ROMANTICS would unite, have them a fairy tale and live happily ever after! LORD WAS I WRONG! I'd hooked a MAN up with a GIRL who was not ready for the quick steps they made together. She hadn't thought it through but he had seeing that he'd went through alot of drama just to make them happen! They moved in together ... though initially it was too soon time wise ... it was needed for their circumstances. They were having a fairy tale! Everyone bragged that they had friends that were as happy as them two. Well things don't always last and they ended in what we considered the worst way. HE was left heartbroken.

I have learned that I'm done matching making it's the WORST thing I could have ever come up with because there is now SIX people out on the earth who went through relationships that terribly failed because I thought they would be a good idea and they crazy asses listened to me!