Until I received 15 emails, all forwarded from my mom with 'new matches' from the site! Now, those of you who are from a similar (or any immigrant) background will understand a parent's concern and worry for their child being unwed at such a late stage in life (I'm 29). To her dismay, I gave up on online dating sites a couple of months ago (see Premium Membership Expired), so I guess she felt the need to take it upon herself to create a profile and find me some matches!
Bless her heart for caring so much that she takes the time to do this on a regular basis, but unbeknownst to her, her timing couldn't have been worse.
The first time I realized that she had created a profile was when she forward to me not one, not five but FIFTEEN emails in one morning with potential suitors. It happened to be the morning after Joe got married. Oops.
By that afternoon, I had another four in my inbox. I was not happy, and I did my best to hide it. She was only trying to help and this was the only way she knew how; I would find the right moment to talk to her about it. She was apologetic to me that she couldn't find further details of these boys because she hadn't created a full profile (sure, sure). I let it go for another few days before I finally replied to one of the profiles and said:
"mom -
I have been set up through shaadi with most of these guys that you are sending me. I'm not interested in them or they really do turn out to be creepy - I've met quite a few. I left shaadi.com after 5-6 years because there were really odd people on the site...
Please don't worry, I will find someone when the time is right. NASEEB! :)"
(Naseeb = luck/chance/fate)
She replied with "ok" and that was the end of shaadi.com.... ... ... until this morning when she pulled up another profile and said "Anika, take a look at this one...looks like a nice match".
Sigh... looks like shaadi.com will haunt me for some time to come!
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