Matches = Matchmaking

Five posts now have been written on matchmaking--The Tangled Thread, The First Match, The Second Match, The Third Match, and Marriage Preparation. The system for choosing a spouse in the U.S. has not worked very well over the past 50 years, as described in Marriage Trends Look Bleak. Better ways to achieve successful marriages are needed.

This series of Matchbooks looks at successful courtship and marriage in the past, as contrasted with unsuccessful systems of today. More Matchbooks are coming. Watch for them.