After 6 matchmakers, $65,000 and over 250 dates, Larry Greenfield is still single. Click “more” below to find out why!
In the past 12 years, the 47-year-old has spent over $65,000 dollars on matchmaking services, according to the New York Post.
Now, 250 blind dates later he’s still single and he’s blaming his former matchmakers.
“You pay them up front and they don’t provide a service. They tell you how wonderful you are, whatever you want to hear,” Greenfield told The Post.
The retired Wall Street trader seems to have approached his quest for a wife like a business acquisition. “My job right now is meeting a girl,” he says in the Post’s article on him, which has now gone viral.
It’s not exactly a romantic notion, but then neither is paying money for a set-up. But with his laundry list of requirements for a partner, Greenfield figured matchmaking was his best bet. It wasn’t.
“His problem is he’s a six and he wanted tens,” Maureen Tara Nelson, one of Greenfield’s former matchmakers, tells Yahoo! Shine. She claims Greenfield chose his dates through her based on photos and profiles but still came back unsatisfied. “He’d say there was no chemistry, but he picked the women!” says Nelson.
The Post, however, does paint Greenfield as a bit too detail-oriented. In addition to a woman who’s slim, Jewish, and funny, he wants a “non-alpha”—someone who isn’t committed to a career.
In New York, that type of women is increasingly rare, according to Nelson.
“He thinks because he’s wealthy he could get a beautiful women, but what he doesn’t realize is that beautiful women in New York are also already successful.”
Maxine Gordon, a 44-year-old comedian set up with Greenfield, echoes that sentiment.
“I think he’s looking for something that doesn’t exist: a gorgeous, talented, Jewish woman like Natalie Portman, except ‘I stay at home; I’m here to put on your slippers and clean your room,’ ” Gordon toldThe Post, after her first (and last) date with Greenfield. “He’s looking for love at first sight, and everyone has imperfections. Talk to someone. Get to know them.”
If Greenfield needs to lower his expectations with women, he may also need to change his approach to meeting them.
“Matchmaking might not be the right way for him to meet women,” says Amy Laurent, a Manhattan matchmaker who recently starred in Bravo’s Miss Advised. “It’s no longer the days where older men looking for younger women can go to a matchmaker to buy their love.”
Source: Yahoo!
