Geez, I couldn't do either. Because I absolutely loathe the idea of being forced on a date, I have to go with option 2 even though I probably wouldn't be successful at it.

Think I could have a ton of fun matching my sworn enemy with the worst and weirdest dates!

I think there is too much undue pressure on going on blind date, especially if it is set up by one's parents since you were raised to be loyal and obedient to viewpoints.

However, if one has a sadistic streak, playing matchmaker for your sworn enemies would be the greatest stealth attack you can make upon them. K-drama pitch here: volunteer at a mental hospital, clean up a patient for the date, and once your enemy falls for the patient, take him or her off their meds during the wedding reception.

Clearly the blind date! It's free food and doesn't need to end with a relationship after all.

I don't want to spend time with my ennemies... It would be wasted time.

1 - lol my parents are smarter than that))) I've made it crystal clear since I was a precocious kid that NO ONE has a say in my likes except me - it took some effort, but eventually everyone around got the memo and returned to minding their own mess. There's even a funny story about an aunt (?) of mom's latest husband trying to sniff around the matter (lady clearly has more single boys at home than self-preservation) after seeing me at their wedding - only for bride to shut the idea down asap in unironic horror^^

2 - hmmm, never tried to do that even without bad intentions... Might be more fun with enemies though. I'll probably fail anyway since my understanding of other people's preferences and logic severely lacks, but no one I care about would be hurt in process, so why not?)))

i don't trust my parents' taste in men (for me) LOL - pass
i also don't give a damn about people's lives, and don't wan't to be involved in their lives either - pass

i'm no fun lol

Matchmaker, partly because my parents are both long dead and thus not really in a position to arrange dates with suitably breathing subjects. I don't really need a ghost bride.

But as @welh640 & @gikata said, matchmaking for enemies offers interesting possibilities. Perhaps I could even set them up with whatever dead or undead entities my parents try to find for me...

Definitely the matchmaker. I don't even need them to destroy each other. Who knows? An enemy might suddenly turn into an ally once they find love... Not in Marry My Husband, but that's also why we're part of the ride there.

I wouldn’t really mind playing matchmaker for my sworn enemies - if it works they’ll probably make each other miserable and if it doesn’t you get to move on with your life anyway.

On the other hand I emphatically would mind my parents setting me up on a blind date (even if I weren’t already married). We have a solid relationship, but a lot of that comes from both parties knowing where the boundaries are, and matchmaking is decidedly over those lines.

Blind date... good food in nice upscale restaurants is the appeal and you never know things might work out. I would never spend a second of my life on people I hate not even for revenge. My time is too precious for that. I would rather spend it on myself having good food.

I agree with some that the idea of setting my sworn enemy up with a date is not of question. Hello, that’s the sworn enemy. I don’t wanna do anything with them. They are out of my life for good reasons. Why bother thinking about them again???

On the other hand, I am interested to see who my parents would set me up. I’m sure they wouldn’t mind if I wouldn’t choose him (they have resigned to the idea that I prefer singlehood than having a traditional family). Having a nice meal, preferably paid by him, sounds good. I quite trust my parents that they wouldn’t choose someone that I would hate: They know me better than that. And even if things don’t work out, I might get a new good friend/acquaintance, or the person might be just another that wouldn’t choose to keep in my life. I’d definitely prefer this to having to just think of my sworn enemy.

I think it would be an interesting experiment to try to find someone who could reform my sworn enemies or change them. I also think I could do it from a distance, so I could avoid interaction.l

My vote is based on the theory proposed by the great Goblin: the two sworn enemies need each other to feed off each other's poison.

What if my matchmaking is successful and my sworn enemies are now a happy couple? I actually had a hand in creating a happy life for my haters? No, lol, nope, not a chance.

If I had the power to set my 'sworn enemies' up on a blind date, I'd take it seriously and not send them for afternoon tea together, but a date each with the nicest most patient two people I know (do I know two nice patient people? 🙂) and that way their attitudes might improve and they will become nicer people.

I'm in a good mood today.

By default it would have to be playing matchmaker for my sworn enemies.

It's cringe but far less cringe than having my parents set me up on a blind date. My dad wouldn't do it but my mom tried after I finished grad school. She came home complaining to my dad that all the mothers of boys my age declined to agree to have their sons matched with me because I had more prestigious advanced degrees which would make their little emperors feel bad about themselves.

MY DAD: I don't want no chicken for a son-in-law anyway.

So that was that.

Actually, long time ago, a guy I knew (NN) expressed his admiration for someone's ( someone elses, not mine) perceived deep understanding of that special fragile, calm understated feeling of Bossa Nova, and said (after having heard an interview on the radio) that it seemed that Z kind of got it.
I was seething with jealousy and the whole injustice of it, because I knew that Z and ...
... until sometime later, I was walking with this guy NN and saw that other person Z.
I dragged him over, as quick as possible, and very comme il NOT faut said: Hi! This is NN, he thinks you are FANTASTIC!
Z reacted by behaving over the top affably condescending and cackle-clucking like you couldn't parody it, because it was just so much it couldn't be exaggerated. NN stood petrified in horror over that Titanic crash happening right in front of him, and after a while, stumbled shook from the place and said under his breath; "I hadn't imagined she would be so ... affectated ... "
"Oh, but she's not a bad person," said I, the fiend, I.
Well, it weren't exactly my sworn enemies, but I definitely made this match to stop NN from liking Z. It was not a nice thing to do, But I needed him to not like her more than she needed him to like her.

Well I am already married to someone my parents like, so what are they doing setting me up on a blind date?! I will have to be a matchmaker for my sworn enemies, but I can’t promise to do a good job 😈

I hate blind dates. But matchmaking for a sworn enemy sounds better. If I hate that person enough, I will set her up with the worst possible candidate. 😅

no dates please im independent, f off.
and my parents wouldnt do that anyway
sworn enemies? why not. if they are nasty people anyway what better option than to throw them on each other.

there is no dilemma here?

1- I’m not sure I want the blind date, my heart is fragile and can’t take rejection. With my luck the guy would probably already be in love with a girl who works 6 jobs and he’s only there cause his parents want to keep him away from his true love who they are against.
2-sure, I’ll play matchmaker for my enemies. Of course I’ll get help in my quest from a guy who loves me most ardently and only wishes for my happiness. After all, I have to get something for my effort right?

"Have your parents set you up on a blind date" - - singular! not plural. So that's one blind date. That's probably like a Saturday afternoon or evening. Not much of a sacrifice, so I'll pick this option. Even if it's multiple blind dates, I feel like, with practice, I would end up being a pro at figuring out how to complete the date while being both respectful of the other party and respectful of my time. Maybe I can multi-task - set up a movie date where I can watch the movies that I want to watch anyways?

I'd rather that than spending loads of time on my enemies. I'd have to spend time researching the enemies and scheming, sacrificing lots of time that could be spent on watching dramas or finding my own match. The only way I would pick this option is if I have a male matchmaker with me, so we can fall in love with each other and be a matchmaking couple like in The Matchmakers.