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An In-Depth Look at the Dating Culture in Los Angeles
Dive into the vibrant dating landscape of Los Angeles with our in-depth analysis of the city's demographics, income levels, education, and social opportunities.
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How Long Does It Take To Fall In Love?
How hormones influence your perception of your partner at different stages of falling in love.
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Navigating San Francisco's Dating Culture: Tips, Trends, and Insights
The Bay’s long rooted-culture of openness and idealism is influencing dating in surprising ways.
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Dating In Dallas: Everything You Need To Know About The Dating Culture In Dallas
Dallas, Texas is a bustling city with a thriving social scene, making it a great place for singles to mingle and find love.
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How To Work On Yourself While Dating
How to find yourself while in a relationship using the practice of spiritual intimacy.
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Your Complete Guide To Valentine's Day 2023
Creative Valentine's Day date ideas plus unique gifts for him and her.
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Is Austin, Texas Good for Singles? A breakdown of Austin's dating culture
Statistical data shows the probability of dating success in Austin, Texas.
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A Look Back On 22 Years Of Matchmaking
Leslie Wardman founded Ambiance Matchmaking exactly 22 years ago when matchmaking was not yet well-known in the Western world.
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How To Date In 2023
How to avoid dating burnout and set yourself up for dating success in 2023.
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Meet Our Members
We are proud to work with some of the most brilliant minds in business, science, design, and technology.
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A Man’s Guide To Understanding Women, Finding Purpose, and Conscious Masculinity
How men can reclaim their “conscious masculine,” find purpose, and understand women.
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How To Know If Someone Is Your Soulmate
Do soulmates exist and how can we decipher if someone is "the one"?
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Book Club Review: Fierce Intimacy
Being in a relationship is like holding a mirror up to yourself in that it shows you your weaknesses, vulnerabilities, and triggers.
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How Your Money Psychology Influences Your Relationships
In this series, we’re exploring how our money psychology affects our dating lives and relationships.
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4 Ways To Date Post-Pandemic
The pandemic reminded us we are human beings, not just faces to be swiped on.
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Book Club Review: Eight Dates
Our monthly book club creates a space for our community to learn, grow, and discuss new ideas centered around self-development and dating.
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5 Outdoor Dates For The Trailblazer
After two years of living room vacations and endless Zoom calls, singles across the globe have collectively decided one thing: indoor dates are out and outdoor dates are in.
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How To Determine Compatibility In A Relationship
While chemistry is the spark, compatibility is the glue that holds the relationship together.
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The Beginner’s Guide to Hiring a Matchmaker In 2023
Are you thinking of hiring a professional matchmaker but don’t know where to start?
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Dan Smith on Masculine Feminine Polarity & Biggest Dating Challenges For Men
How masculine feminine polarity plays a huge role in chemistry and attraction, plus much more.
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Christine Chang on Biggest Dating Challenges For Entrepreneurs
The biggest challenges entrepreneurs face in dating, plus much more.
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Vanessa Ringel on Creating Romantic Chemistry
Her trainings focus on the subconscious mind and breaking free from self-limiting patterns.
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Romantic Chemistry Explained
The 4 types of chemistry plus 10 ingredients for creating more chemistry on your dates.
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Tam Hunt on The Future Of Dating
How advances in technology and science will impact our dating culture
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The Evolution Of Modern Dating: Part 2
When the decade began, tech meant promise. It connected us in ways we could barely imagine.
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The Evolution Of Modern Dating: Part 1
It seems shocking in retrospect that we as humans could actually keep relationships going before technology.
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How To Make A Good Impression On A First Date
Based on data from 20,000 dates, professional matchmaker reveals how to have a great first date.
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Dating Yourself: The Most Efficient Way To Meet Your Life Partner
Learn how to date yourself so you can attract your life partner.
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The Paradox Of Choice
Many singles try to date as many people as possible as to not miss out on meeting “The One," but this can lead to an insidious addiction.
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Are We Wired To Be Monogamous?
Are we meant to be with the same partner “until death do us part?”
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The Art of Being Present In Your Relationships
Learn how to slow down, be present, and spend time with people that bring you peace and joy.
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The Intimacy–Desire Paradox
A satisfying relationship is built on the dynamics of intimacy and distance.
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5 Ways To Apply Minimalism To Dating
A minimalist is someone who rids himself of unessential possessions in order to live a simple life.
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40+ Ways To Channel Your Energy In Quarantine
Quarantine has impacted our society in surprising ways. We have time to do the things we love ––
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Ambiance Matchmaking Featured on KJRH News
This Valentine's Day, more people are single than ever before. So, we're working for you to get tips from a dating expert.
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Stop Swiping, This Is How You Meet Your Soulmate
All it takes is the motivation to learn, grow, and discover what it is that makes you tick in a relationship.
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Ambiance Matchmaking Celebrates 18 Years In Business
It’s a fascinating time to be working in the dating industry.
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Why You Shouldn't Wait To Introduce Your Date To Friends & Family
Why it's important to date in a group environment with people important to you.
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3 New Year Resolutions For Dating In 2023
3 New Year resolutions that will actually help you date smarter in 2023.
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Why Couples Drift Apart (And How To Avoid It)
Nobody ever stays exactly the same. Life experiences cause people to undergo a sort of metamorphosis.
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Top 10 Cities In The World To Find Love
Here are the final results of the top 10 cities in the world with the best love infrastructure:
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How Ambiance Changed The Matchmaking Industry
Ambiance Matchmaking opened its doors in 2002. To put things into perspective, the early 2000’s was a time of rapid growth in our other world;
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Ambiance Matchmaking Featured in Chicago Tribune
Matchmakers find modern fans in the digital age
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Finding "Flow" In Dating
If you are reading this article, I’m assuming you want an extraordinary life, and you want an extraordinary partner with whom to share your life.
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What Losing My Dad Taught Me About Love & Humanity
Tragedy in its many forms; heartbreak, death, illness, divorce; can be a wonderful thing.
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Behind The Scenes: Finding The Match
You asked, we’re answering. How does Ambiance Matchmaking find matches for our members?
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First Date Do's and Don'ts From A Professional Matchmaker
Matchmaker reveals the secret to effective dating and the most common reasons first dates fizzle.
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Why You Keep Dating the Same Type of Person
"I keep attracting the same type of person into my life."
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How Tim Ferriss Hacked His Dating Life
As Ambiance Matchmaking is based in the San Francisco Bay Area, we have been anxiously awaiting for Tim to become a guinea pig in the dating world.
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Here's Why The Majority Of Americans Are Single
Today, you can visit 27 states and find that singles are taking over the metropolises.
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How To Get To Know Someone On A Deep Level
How to get to know someone on a deeper level to determine dating compatibility.
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Ambiance Celebrates 17 Years In Business
We cannot believe this month marks the 17 year anniversary of Ambiance Matchmaking.
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Why San Francisco Single Professionals Turn to Modern Matchmakers
Technology is being left out of the dating game as modern matchmakers continue to gain rise
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8 Steps To Dating Effortlessly With Children
At Ambiance Matchmaking, we have many members who are single parents.
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Ambiance Matchmaking featured in DatingAdvice.com
DatingAdvice.com is home to many top notch dating experts "who dispense wisdom on all things dating daily".
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Most Important Relationship Factors For Men
“What are three characteristics that are important to you in a match?”
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Ambiance Matchmaking Featured in Oklahoma City's 405 Magazine
A writer from Oklahoma City's 405 Magazine recently contacted Ambiance Matchmaking to talk about modern dating.
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Rejection Is A Good Thing – Here’s Why
It is nearly impossible that every single person on this earth will like each other, that is, to actually have compatible personality traits that allow friendships and relationships to form.
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Ambiance Matchmaking "Most Inspiring Entrepreneurs" Series
Ambiance Matchmaking to be featured in "Most Inspiring Entrepreneurs and Independent Businesses."
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Keeping Expectations In Check
Midlife relationships are also tricky because many of us have a lot of emotional baggage from 50-something years of living.
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Is Your Communication Style Hurting Your Relationship?
It takes years of work and commitment to gain self-awareness.
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What It Actually Means To "Just Be Yourself"
It seems as though a common response to any expression of personal angst, social anxiety, and insecurity is that we should just be ourselves, period.
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Improve Your Relationships Through Self-Awareness
An important ingredient for a successful relationship is self-confidence, and an important ingredient in self-confidence is self-awareness ...
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How To Date With Confidence
Scour the online dating profiles and you’ll note that most people describe themselves as having high self-confidence, and just about everyone is looking for partners who have equally high self-confidence.
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How To Be Genuine In Your Relationships
Who wouldn’t want to be authentic, real, sincere, honest, truthful, straightforward, direct, frank, candid and open?
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How To Get A Third Date
The following tips are ways to make it past the first and second dates, and give someone the gift of knowing you.
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5 Unexpected Benefits Of Marriage
It seems that marriage is not a top priority for Americans. Having a successful marriage is “one of the most important things” in life for only
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Can Your Dateability Be Written On Your Face?
Scientists are uncovering evidence that some personality traits may in fact be written all over our faces.
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5 Ways To Rekindle Your Relationship
What if everything we know about sexual passion in long-term relationships is wrong?
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Men Confess What Baffles Them About Women
We thought it would be interesting (and humorous) to expose which womanly quirks leave men baffled.
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7 Dealbreakers In A Relationship
These top 7 dealbreakers will help you pinpoint red flags in any relationship.
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5 Ways To A Thriving Relationship
Maintaining a healthy relationship is challenging. It takes time, effort and in the midst of a chaotic, busy life it can be easy to lose sight of healthy habits, ...
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Dating Without A Mask
Dating in our middle adult years, with ex’s, children, pets, mortgages, careers, and emotional, physical and perhaps even financial baggage may seem impossible.
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The Vital Ingredient In Relationships
Romantic relationships are wonderful. They make us feel alive, dynamic, validated and loved – when they work.
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The Power Of Vulnerability
Shame is a powerful universal emotion that often emerges when we feel deeply vulnerable about something.
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Dating Habits Of 5 Generations
No matter your age, dating can confound us all. Love is exciting and meaningful at any age.
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How To Handle Fear Of Rejection
I am afraid of rejection, getting hurt, and becoming heartbroken.
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The Ticking Biological Clock
One sunny afternoon, my friend and I were walking through the picturesque Lincoln Park – a neighborhood rich in greenery, parks, and young families.
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How To Be Vulnerable In Dating
In the exciting but sometimes disastrous world of dating, I often ask myself why it’s so hard to be vulnerable in a relationship.
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My Boyfriend Turned Squatter
We met in a dark, dingy bar. I was wasting away my days in Oklahoma as I wait for my golden ticket to live abroad.
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How One Couple Reignited Their Love
What happens when an unhappy arranged marriage moves to a country where divorce is not frowned upon?
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Love Stories From Hopeless Romantics
Craigslist's Missed Connections section is essentially a type of personal advertisement which is posted after two people meet but are too shy or otherwise unable to exchange contact details.
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5 Unconscious Motives Behind Attraction
Men and women strive to fall head-over-heels in love, form mutually exclusive relationships, and have a happy, healthy family to call their own.
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A Phenomenology of First Loves
The phrase, “You never forget your first love” has become commonplace for a reason.
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How To Handle Doubt In A Relationship
Doubt can be a horrible feeling when it rears its ugly head in your relationship, especially for individuals who are ready to settle down with a partner. However, doubt can be beneficial in surprising ways.
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Genuine Passion vs. Unearned Passion
The real reason people get hurt in their dating lives is by overvaluing initial passion and undervaluing investment in the relationship.
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Nobody’s Perfect ... Or Are They?
How many of us have stressed out because we could not find the perfect mate?
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Why Now is the Perfect Time for the Post-50’s Male
If you have been keeping up with recent news, you may have noticed all of the talk regarding the fact that the American divorce rate has declined in the last 20 years with the exception of the over 50s crowd.
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Surprising Benefits of Hiring a Matchmaker
Working with a Matchmaker is an experience you will probably never forget.
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Long-Distance Relationships – Part II
I decided I wasn’t going to travel like I had in the past. No planes, trains, boats, buses, or automobiles – I was going to travel by foot.
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Long-Distance Relationships – Part I
What happens when you connect with someone during your travels? What if the connection is so special, it makes you wonder if you should uproot your life to be with that person?
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