Kauai Through Local Eyes
Sometimes you learn the most about a destination because you let yourself be vulnerable and live enough in the moment to meet someone who can share a local perspective…
From the Experts
<p data-pm-slice="1 1 []">Get the insider scoop <strong>From the Experts</strong> at Tawkify. This category gives you unparalleled insight into how our matchmaking works, what to expect on your dating journey, and unbiased comparisons of matchmaking vs. dating apps. Find actionable tips and professional guidance to make informed decisions about your love life.</p>
Secrets Of A Matchmaker: Secret #10
Remember that each person you meet is another human being with their own networks attached…
Don’t Get Crushed
When you have a serious crush, it’s a feeling like no other. You catch yourself smiling for no reason and your world feels lighter, somehow sparkly. Thinking about your crush, you’re elated. Like a person with a magical secret. You could fly around your kitchen! It’s wonderful… and nerve wracking. Falling for someone new is often a time of extreme energy and wonder mixed with goodly portions of self-doubt and anxiety. You’re smitten. Enchanted. Utterly charmed. Now what? During this fantastically magic time, try to keep the following in mind…
What Q2 2025 Dating Trends Reveal About Real Connection
2025 dating trends are taking a confident new shape. Singles aren’t just looking for love; they’re prioritizing authenticity, real-world chemistry, and deeper compatibility. At Tawkify, we analyzed thousands of matches across our database in Q2 of 2025 to identify what’s changing in how people date. Spoiler: it’s not about swiping faster. Whether you’re reentering the […]
The Matchmaker Effect: How “Materialists” Sparked a Surge in Curated Dating
When “Materialists” hit screens, it didn’t just entertain. It struck a nerve. In a world full of dating fatigue and swipe-left apathy, the film spotlighted the emotional (and financial) complexity of modern romance. It also helped elevate the matchmaker effect and the idea of curated dating from a luxury niche to a cultural moment. To […]
Matchmaker Says: How To Write A Great Dating Profile
A reader recently asked for guidance on how to write a great Tawkify profile. Who better to pose this question to but our Matchmakers — who read a myriad of profiles daily, their clients’ as well as potential matches for their clients’…
Welcome To Heartalytics
Tawkify has officially entered the blogosphere. On a daily basis, our talented team shares incredible stories from the front lines of our work as weavers of love: invaluable insights about sticky relationship issues, our treasured clients and the nuanced art and science we practice known as Matchmaking. What emerges around our water cooler is a tableau of contemporary dating culture that’s begging to be shared. So I am pleased to be able to share it with you through our new blog, Heartalytics.
Mental Health: Why Ignorance Isn’t Bliss
The Tawk To Me series is now exploring a deeper conversation that I feel is overlooked in the dating and relationship space, mental health…
Matchmaker Says: How To Be Single
Melody Kiersz, NYC Tawkify Matchmaker and Founder at Naked Wellness, circulated Mate-Seeking: The Science of Finding Your Best Partner out to the team last month on a hunch we would find it intriguing. There’s is a lot of “meat” to both Sean Braswel’s NPR story and Jeb Kinnison’s analysis of it that we thought the greater populace might benefit from…
The Heart Beat: Dating to Marry
This week, a reporter for a national magazine rung us up to ask how a gal could know if her fella is “marriage material.” They’re looking for specific “signs” that a boyfriend might be a keeper, and wondered how we might advise a client asking this type of question. Our matchmakers, as you can imagine, had plenty of answers for her. But it got me to thinking–because of course nothing is simple when it comes to people’s love lives–that maybe this wasn’t the right question. Or rather, that this simple question stirred up other questions that feel more fundamental and somehow important, like, “why do people date in the first place?” or, asked another way, “is it correct to assume that everyone dating hopes it will lead to marriage?”
What To (not) Tawk About
Since we specialize in first dates, our matchmakers are often asked for appropriate date icebreakers. We curate blind date experiences that we plan and book for our matches. Suddenly face-to-face with a potential new love interest, new clients struggle a little bit for “safe” topics and tried-and-true conversation starters. What should or shouldn’t they say?…
Singlehood Road Map: A Week of Expert Tips & Tricks
National Singles Week is here! Read on to get the skinny on each day’s theme, as well as commentary from our experts to maximize your single-hood mojo…
