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ICYMI - Matchmaking Helps Friends. It Also Ends Them
Matchmaking sounds like a favour until someone gets hurt, and Jen Kirsch has watched it go wrong from every angle. Friends turned into third parties, blind dates built on nothing more than a shared taste in music. When does connecting two people actually help, and when does it just create a mess.
She's been on exactly one blind date, set up through a hair salon connection that sounded perfect on paper and didn't survive reality. That shaped how she sees paid matchmaking services, the cost, and whether the price tag is doing more work than people think.
There's a version of matchmaking most…
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