Choosing a matchmaker Having decided that professional matchmaking might not be quite as strange an idea as I once thought, I started looking at who I would actually trust to do it. A few names kept coming up, and I found myself circling back to Tawkify and Three Day Rule. They’re both established matchmaking services

Tawkify and Kelleher International both offer professional matchmaking for people who want more help than they’re getting from typical dating apps, but each is targeting a different audience. Tawkify works with a broader range of people looking for high-touch matchmaking, while Kelleher is more selective and tends to work with high-profile individuals whose dating lives

If I’m going to pay someone to find me a date… At the venerable age of 40, I’m not particularly interested in going on more dates just for the sake of going on dates. I’d actually like to meet someone who gets me. Someone whose weird matches my weird. I don’t want to waste any

When I’m buying a wedding gift, I don’t want to give someone something generic just because it looks respectable wrapped in a box. I want to feel like I’m making the couple’s life a little better after the wedding is over and they’re back to normal, laundry, work, and figuring out who stole the blankets

So, apparently I’m dating again. I turned 40 this summer, which makes being single feel a little more daunting than it did at 30. Not desperate, exactly, although my parents may have a different view. They have started asking increasingly specific questions about whether I’m “seeing anyone”, delivered with the casual subtlety of people checking

I’m married now, but I’ve done the dating-after-a-relationship-ends thing, and I watched one of my best friends spend years trying to find the person she wanted to build a life with. She tried It’s Just Lunch and a few other matchmaking services along the way, so I saw pretty closely what she hoped paying for

One of my best friends used to squeeze dates into a schedule that already felt impossible. She was in med school, knew she wanted marriage and kids, and sometimes a first date meant going straight from studying or a long day into dinner because there simply wasn’t another free night that week. I watched her

Let me tell you, as a mom of two, there’s nothing that irritates me more than listening to my husband complain about being tired. I’ll give him credit, though; he’s constantly tossing and turning or searching for a different blanket that isn’t “too hot.” So I decided this is the problem I’m going to solve