19 Aug Dating in Your 40s: What Actually Changes
The dating pool in your forties is smaller and better sorted. What gets harder, what gets easier, and what to do differently....
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18 Aug Dating in LA: An Honest Look at the Scene
There is a standard account of dating in LA and you have almost certainly read it. Everyone is flaky. Everyone is keeping one eye on the door in case someone more interesting walks through it. It is a tidy story, and it flatters whoever is...
18 Aug Dating After Being Widowed
Most articles on this subject open by telling you that you are allowed to be happy again. That is not the question you are asking. The question, said plainly, is whether seeing someone else would be a betrayal. That comes first, because everything practical depends on...
17 Aug Dating Coach or Matchmaker: Which Do You Actually Need?
Two people in Los Angeles go looking for help in the same week. One searches for a dating coach, the other for a matchmaker, and both end up on websites that read almost identically. Warm photographs, language about readiness and compatibility, an invitation to book...
17 Aug Singles Events in Los Angeles: A Realistic Guide
Finding singles events in Los Angeles is not the hard part. On any given week there are more of them than you could attend in a month, and two platforms already solved discovery. A search on either will hand you a longer list than this...
14 Aug Dating App Burnout: What Comes After the Apps
The word people use is "exhausted," and they almost always apologize for it. They mention that a friend met someone on the same platform. They wonder whether the problem is their photographs. It usually is not. Dating app burnout gets treated as a personal maintenance issue, something...
14 Aug Speed Dating vs. Matchmaking in Los Angeles: Which Problem Do You Have?
You want a way to meet someone that does not involve a phone. In Los Angeles that usually narrows to two things: buy a ticket to a speed dating event, or hire a matchmaker. They get discussed as though they sit on one spectrum, cheap at...
14 Aug Dating After Divorce: A Practical Guide
Most articles about dating after divorce tell you to wait a year. A few tell you to trust your instincts. Both are guessing, and they contradict each other, which tells you roughly how much evidence sits behind either one. Here is the less comfortable version. Readiness...
14 Aug What Does a Matchmaker Actually Do?
Almost every answer to this question describes a result. A matchmaker finds you someone. That is the outcome, not the work, and it says nothing about what happens between signing a contract and shaking someone's hand. So here is the work instead, in the order it...