Photo not related to article. [Getty Images Bank]
Photo not related to article. [Getty Images Bank]

A woman's account of being repeatedly contacted by her blind date's mother — who pressed her to agree to a second meeting — has gone viral online.

The story was posted recently on Remember, a workplace community platform, under the title "I got a KakaoTalk message from my blind date's mom."

The author, identified only as A, said she had gone on a blind date with a man in his late 30s, referred to as B, through a mutual acquaintance of her father's.

"He was attractive and had an impressive background, and the conversation was fine," A wrote, "but I didn't feel any romantic spark. He never reached out after the date, so I assumed things had naturally fizzled out."

A few days later, however, A received a message from an unknown number. The sender identified herself as B's mother and explained that she had reached out on her son's behalf because "he is too shy to contact you himself." She urged A to meet B again, saying he had been very taken with her.

When A politely declined, B's mother continued to press her. She told A that "men like this are hard to find these days" and urged her to "show some courtesy, if not for yourself then out of respect for your father."

B's mother also tried to call A directly, though A managed to deflect the call by saying she was in the middle of work. The messages kept coming until A expressed her discomfort on multiple occasions, at which point the contact finally stopped.

"Is it normal for parents to step in and reach out like this after a blind date?" A wrote. "I keep wondering if I was too rude to B's mother, but I still feel upset about the whole thing."

Online commenters reacted with a mix of sympathy and sharp criticism. "There's always a reason when someone that age still hasn't gotten married," one user wrote. Others called the situation "pathetic," said the mother had "crossed a line by persisting after a clear rejection," and summed B up as "the definition of a mama's boy."


choigo@heraldcorp.com