The apps give you facts. It’s time to look at core values instead. — Among the many things we matchmakers do to understand our clients is ask thought provoking questions. Sure, we have the facts. We know what their preferences for age, ethnicity, height, income level, education, and family goals might be. …

The current dating landscape can be an emotionally taxing beast, but never fear! Date coaches are here to help. Here’s what a lot of people get wrong about date coaching. 1. Date coaching is only for inexperienced people that are bad at dating This is not only false, it’s a little absurd. If you want someone to help you get fit, you may…

It’s time to reverse your programming on which relationships have higher value and love your own journey… and everyone else’s. — We’ve all heard the story of grandparents that met as teenagers, married each other as virgins, had a family, and stuck together until the end, holding hands as they passed away peacefully in their sleep (or some similar version). …

It’s not perfect, but online dating has merit and is not going away. You might as well stop hating it. Part 1: Online dating platforms are growing businesses, and that’s a good thing. No doubt about it, according to all the latest stats, online dating is a booming business. Platforms all over the world are only growing and the biggest company out there…

Sometimes life gives you strange relationship gifts that are packaged together in such a way as to be perfectly, obscenely complimentary. — Case in point: the move to cohabitation after a long stretch of independence. The problem with being so fancy free and dating all the time is that once in a while, you fall very hard for someone, then realize you are perfectly compatible and don’t want to be physically separated…

Modern weddings are a riot. They don’t make sense. At once traditional, conservative, religious and full of contractual agreement sanctified by someone’s god and our government, they are also totally obsessed with fashion, sex, music, food, dance, and money, all within the context of love and family. I attend every…

Dating better has little to do with finding better looking people, but it’s hard to remember that when you first get on the apps. — Here’s a common experience with apps that show you one profile at a time (Hinge, Bumble etc): You are given a few profiles of very attractive people (let’s say, attractive according to current trends) with very enticing profiles You try to engage with those profiles and nothing happens (wtf?)