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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teens don't seem to set their friends up like they used to in our day, OP.

It was very common in my time especially because so many of us girls had parents who wouldn't allow us to go on a date unless it was a group situation.  Don't you ever remember taking one for the team?  Having to go on a date with the annoying or less attractive friend of a friend's boyfriend so they could go on a date.

My mother once suggested something similar to my niece she was lamenting to my daughter about not having a boyfriend during Valentines.  She told DD to find a friend for her cousin and my daughter was horrified.  She said something like: "OMG, I get, like, crazy anxiety just recommending a friend try a restaurant or food that I liked.  Like, what if they hate it?  What if it makes them sick?  What if they think I'm crazy for liking this place as much as I do?  That's my mental breakdown for food, Grandma, and you want to go a step further and try to recommend a human to another human?  I can't.  I just can't!"    [/quote]

I disagree. Group hangs are very much a thing. If OP's kid was hot or rich or whatever this girl would be setting her friends up with him. A practice old as time.[/quote]

Group hangs, yes, but that's not like years ago when Cindy would tell her boyfriend Timmy to have his friend Jimmy ask out her BFF Jane if he wanted to take her to the movies Friday night.

Now it's just giant groups with no pairs hanging out.

Back when I was a teen, I (and most of my female friends) could not go on a date without another girlfriend going as well.  And since no one wants to third wheel it, you made your boyfriend set her up with one of his friends.  [/quote]

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