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I'm at a point in life where every single person in my current social circle who is around my age is female. I'm against the idea of joining activities for the sake of meeting men (no point in paying for hobby classes to increase my chances of meeting men as it costs money and I am more likely to encounter LVM than HVM). I'm also against paying for speed dating and matchmakers as they are expensive. OLD seems to be full of creeps and catfishes so it's a no from me.
I think my only chances of meeting men these days is being set up by people we mutually know or as strangers. Meeting as strangers seems random and I can't help but feel like men who hit on female strangers are either pick up artists or scammers.
How do set ups work though? Do I speak to people I know and ask if know anyone that can be setted up with me? I don't know if this works and if it is giving off pick me vibes. I also can't help but feel like if my friends and family knew a single guy compatible with me, they would have already settled me up with him.
I once was stupid enough to accept a set up. Some background information: I had suffered from a work related burnout the year prior. Had therapy, healed, was back working fulltime in a stressful environment. Anyway, because of that experience, they thought I'd get along splendidly with... a schizophrenic who couldn't work. Yeaaahhh. Because we'd "get" eachother. I lasted 5 minutes at that date then blocked them both.