From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Bob Carlson, and this is unfictional.

Unfictional is KCRW's program of stories and original documentaries. It's a part of KCRW's program of Stories and Original Documentaries.

It's a part of KCRW's Independent Prooser Project, and today on the program,

two stories about people looking for love using modern day strategies. Later in the show

Carlos Kotkin talks about the date that goes about as bad as a date can possibly

go. But first the story of a mother who predicts the success of her daughter's romantic

relationships with uncanny accuracy. And so the two of them make a plan to take full advantage.

It's an episode called Cracking the Love Code on

KCRW.com this is unfictional. If you're dating somebody and you're an adult, it's likely that you're going to introduce that person to your family, eventually.

And as the cycle goes, like it or not, your family's going to let you know what they think about the man or woman that you've chosen to bring home.

Well, this story is about a woman named Liza, who had this same situation with her mother.

Whenever Liza met somebody and decided he was good enough to meet her mother, she'd introduce them. And Liza says that her mom Peggy,

sometimes after just a few minutes of meeting this person

would always say something like this.

He wasn't right for me because he had lived in the same

place his whole life. The right guy for me wouldn't be someone who just stayed in

one place and waited till his 30s to pursue his dream.

You know, naturally we all form opinions about people the instant we meet them, and a lot of parents

in particular are not shy about sharing those

opinions but the crazy thing was that Peggy was able to form very specific

opinions about her

mother's boyfriends and as maddening as it was for Liza her mother was almost always right

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